Three years ago, only AI evangelists knew ElevenLabs. After announcing their $11 billion valuation, the hiring challenge flipped from convincing people to join to sifting through massive inbound applications.

And people AI evangelists knew about ElevenLabs and got excited about the product. And those were the few inbounds that we had. We had to rely a lot on the network, our networks, sourcing, reaching out, and and convincing people to join this tiny startup. And over time with eleven Labs success, it became a bigger name in the industry. There was less time spent on convincing people that we were onto something great and, more time spent on actually sifting through inbound applications. And at this point, now also having announced our $11,000,000,000 round, we, keep scaling up the inbound requests, our employer brand,