00:19:42 · Mati Staniszewski
[00:19:42] S3: So first of all, to the first part of the question, so one of artists I I love is will.i.am He'll be speaking at ElevenLabs Summit on '11 eleven, of course. But he... We spoke a little bit about this. And of course, you know, the quality needs to be good. I don't think we are close there, but it's not there yet. But yes, I do imagine where artists like this could create their work, and you could extend it and personalize it, or you could localize it. So Shakira famously sings in English and in Spanish. If that was possible across all the different languages, it would be incredible. So that's the kind of the first part. The second part, yes, with the technology innovation, there will be more people that create content, But at the same time, it unlocks all the people that couldn't create before because it was unaffordable, because you needed to go to a studio to record if you just zoom into the music. Now all of that is accessible to people that don't have the budget to go record and find a studio, to find the equipment. Two shifts before, the music would just not be possible to be creative if you don't have the access to the studio space. And I feel the same about AI technology. Yes, there's more content, but it lowers the bar for other people to be able to start, which has not been possible. And then two, still you will have the same amount of people following and keen to have the deeper connection or even more, which wasn't possible before.
00:20:58 · Taya, Mati Staniszewski
[00:20:58] S2: I wanna just get into your business for a second here because you do have a really booming business. You announced a few months ago that you guys had surpassed $200,000,000 in ARR, and that by the end of twenty twenty five, you'd like to surpass $300,000,000 in ARR. How close are you to that goal? [00:21:14] S3: We are close. We are still on target. Have We just incredible partners from companies like Cisco or Deutsche Telekom, automating their customer experience work to innovating of their new use cases, which is true all the way to, to some of the fastest growing startups, like Perplexity, which we'll use that as part of the interaction of the devices. But even outside of that space, what was probably the almost a positive surprise is some of the governments leaning in and how they can use that. Recently, we announced our work with the government of Ukraine, who are creating the first agenda government where all the people across society will have access to education through AI, will be able to access the government services through AI customer support, which is just incredible to see, because pro bono. But across all of that, it's very clear that the way we interact with technology is changing. And hopefully, at ElevenLabs, can play a big big role in making that and crossing the 300 by end of the year. [00:22:08] S2: You've expanded into a lot more places than I think people expected working with governments, for example, in music. And I'm curious, five years from now, you know, how do you think about ElevenLabs? And, like, how should we think about you?
00:22:08 · Taya, Mati Staniszewski, S0, Rebecca Balan
[00:22:08] S2: You've expanded into a lot more places than I think people expected working with governments, for example, in music. And I'm curious, five years from now, you know, how do you think about ElevenLabs? And, like, how should we think about you? [00:22:22] S3: I hope that we are a go to place for anything creative. We're a go to place if you are trying to deploy conversational agent that's reliable. And our mission of solving the problem, of making it easy and seamless to communicate with that incredible innovation that's happening across technology is solved, and we've played big role in that. [00:22:41] S2: Alright. I think that's our time, but thank you, Mati. Appreciate it. [00:22:44] S0: You, Max. [00:22:44] S3: Alright. Thanks, everyone. [00:22:49] S1: Equity is produced by Teresa Loconzolo with editing by Cal. We'd also like to thank TechCrunch's audience development team. Thank you so much for listening, and we'll talk to you next time.