ElevenLabs is the AI company that makes machines sound human. They dubbed the Lex Friedman–Modi podcast into Hindi. They built an AI Gordon Ramsay that teaches you how to cook while you cook. They automated 60,000 customer support calls for Meesho. The company is worth $11 billion and is racing OpenAI to own the future of how humans talk to machines. The CEO is a 29-year-old from Poland named Mati Staniszewski who started it because every foreign film in Poland had one man dubbing every character. I sat down with him in Davos. We got into why headphones will matter more than phones, why the real opportunity for young entrepreneurs isn't building AI models but going deep into one boring domain — automotive, healthcare, e-commerce — and deploying voice agents better than anyone else. Then it took a turn. We ended up talking about why social media is fundamentally broken, why no foreign algorithm should define the mood of India's youth, and why nobody has built an AI-native social product yet. We decided to try.

00:00 Introduction
06:35 Voice as the next tech interface
13:24 Competing with OpenAI and big labs
20:12 Preserving emotion in dubbed content
27:39 Building profitable voice businesses today
35:09 AI valuations and global opportunity
42:29 Geopolitics reshaping trust in tech platforms
49:51 Designing a new social media platform
56:40 Incentivising authenticity over negativity

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Episode 1 of ‘People by WTF'; where we have one-on-one conversations with personalities who stand out in various industries! In this 30 min exclusive with Bill Gates, we speak about his experience with India, from his early Microsoft days to his work with The Gates Foundation. We also cover topics such as the role of philanthropy in society, energy transition, the possibilities of AGI, along with its impact on society, money, and jobs. If Bill Gates were a 25-year-old building in India today, what would he do?


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#billgates Co-founder of Microsoft , Co-chair The Gates Foundation
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
1:20 Nikhil’s past Interactions with Bill Gates
2:20 Bill’s Experience with India over the years
6:10 Does philanthropy actually work?
10:20 Capitalism Vs Socialism
11:50 How does Bill stay healthy?
12:56 Energy Transition : What are the opportunities?
16:34 AGI: Impact on Jobs, Money and Society
19:40 How can Indians leverage AI?
22:06 Sectors to Focus on with AI in India
24:10 Bill's advice for people in early 20's
25:43 What are the possibilities with AI?
29:03 Outro

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