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Voice AI startup ElevenLabs gets unicorn status after landing $80m

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The AI voice company was co-founded by Piotr Dabkowski, a former Google machine learning engineer, and Staniszewski, an ex-Palantir deployment strategist, who were both raised in Poland. According to TechCrunch , the pair were inspired by the mediocre dubbing of American movies they watched growing up in Poland. Who are ElevenLabs?

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Why CEOs Shouldn’t Mess with Engineers

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The ship set sail in 1628 as the pride of the Swedish navy during a war with Poland. 1: In the middle of product development, CEO rewrites the specs (no doubt verbally), overruling the product managers and the engineers, and forces mid-stream changes in code architecture. #2: How could that be?

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

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Girls in Tech London picked the top women in 19 countries – the UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Greece and Israel – on the basis of their leadership and excellence in innovation and technology.

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