Andrew Reed on Science

Sequoia led the ElevenLabs Series D and I recently joined their board. It was ~2.5 years ago when we @sequoia first invested in @elevenlabs. It was clear then it was an outlier company with brilliant people doing pioneering research, but there were a million questions (1/3)

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