Palantir

Building One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies | Mati Staniszewski, ElevenLabs

Sep 9, 2026 · 1:11:08

ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski tells David Senra that voice will become one of the primary ways people interact with AI, and that the company wins by combining frontier audio research with product deployment. He traces the origin to Poland's one-voice movie dubbing he re-experienced in 2021, and to creator feedback that pivoted the dubbing idea into speech generation. He details a Palantir-inspired model: sub-10-person teams, no titles, a five-layer cap, and forward deployed engineers who bring customer learnings back into the product. He cites Deutsche Telekom, Revolut and Klarna, the 20,000-voice marketplace, and voice restoration for over 10,000 people. After three or four acquisition offers, the last in June last year, he and co-founder Piotr Dąbkowski are going all in.

Building Defense Technologies to Protect Democracies | Torsten Reil, Helsing

Aug 26, 2026 · 1:23:55

Torsten Reil, co-founder of European defense-tech company Helsing, argues that AI-controlled drones and autonomous fighter jets are making tanks, artillery, and crewed aircraft obsolete, and that future conflicts will be battles of materiel won by whoever can mass-produce weapons. Citing Ukraine, he says drones have cut frontline survival times to minutes, and explains how Helsing's HX-2 strike drone scaled from dozens to a baseline of 1,000 units per month, surging to 3,000. He also reveals that Helsing's Centaur AI flew a Saab Gripen in air combat, leading the company to build the autonomous jet CA1 Europa. Reil discusses founding Helsing in 2021 to protect democracies, Daniel Ek's early 100-million-euro investment, and the talent-density philosophy that shapes his leadership.