"We started initially in Europe, and we realized that if we wanted the best people to solve what was a research problem at the time, we need to hire wherever they are, and we couldn't lock ourselves to just San Francisco or look at the West Coast,"
"We knew that we need to find them across Europe, across Asia and bring them into the company,"
"We hired a person that had incredible open source text-to-speech model, and was working in the call center at the same time as a recipient of the calls to make money,"
"and he's now on the team, one of the most brilliant researchers we have doing all the data processing."
ElevenLabs began in Europe and prioritized recruiting talent wherever top researchers were located rather than limiting hiring to Silicon Valley or the West Coast. The company focuses on European and Asian talent pools and avoids traditional platforms like LinkedIn, resulting in unconventional but high-value hires. Founders’ Polish roots and early inspiration from foreign-dubbing practices shaped the company’s focus. A recruited contributor moved from working in a call center to become a leading researcher handling data processing. Scaling revealed that employees from traditional backgrounds can help train newer hires. Employees were recently allowed to sell shares at a $6.6 billion valuation.
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