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Mati Staniszewski: belief

14 Apr 2026 Cheeky Pint The world of voice AI, with Mati Staniszewski of ElevenLabs

“The main thing that's in that ownership part that I think works well for the AI world is agency.”

— Mati Staniszewski

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Mati Staniszewski
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
14 Apr 2026
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

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…That's very tech-forward by Ukraine. So tech-forward. The most advanced set of work we've seen. We got a little bit validated. Maybe technical resources in each of the teams is a good idea. That works heavily for us. You mentioned some of the other parts, like do you hire the senior or younger... Main thing we try to filter for, of course, the culture piece is so important. You could scale people, but scaling culture is much harder. You want to optimize for that being right. In our case, it's first principles, taking ownership, striving for excellence but staying humble. The main thing that's in that ownership part that I think works well for the AI world is agency. If you have that agency to explore, regardless of where you are in the experience cycle, it's going to be a tremendous amplifier to your work. My biggest takeaway from all this has been that around agency, where I feel like high-agency people are the winners of the advances in AI, and within organizations, low-agency people will lose out.…

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