Co-founder of Freepik and Magnific. Provided detailed commentary on Eleven Labs' forward-deployed engineer model and validated the approach from a peer founder perspective.
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Eleven Labs pioneered the forward-deployed engineer model — engineers embedded with customers to discover and solve problems — which drives enterprise adoption. Their main scaling error was hiring too many strategists instead of more forward-deployed engineers, a lesson now being replicated across the ecosystem.