Category: startups
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11 Lessons from my first 11 weeks at ElevenLabs
It’s crazy to think I only joined ElevenLabs 77 days ago. Before DeepSeek broke the internet. Before MCPs, and Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and GPT 4.5, and Deep Research, and Gemini Flash 2.5, and about a thousand other advancements. Time moves fast in the AI space, but it moves at warp speed at ElevenLabs. Here are…
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Goodbye, Encore
Encore has been my home for the last ten years. A third of my life. It’s utterly surreal to be writing a letter about moving on from the company I started. Although, come to think of it, likening Encore to a home or a house doesn’t feel quite right… Comparing Encore to a boat would…
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Encore has been acquired by Mixcloud
I’m pleased to announce that Encore has been acquired by Mixcloud. Mixcloud is the global platform for DJs, music producers, and radio communities, and one of the largest DJ streaming platforms in the world with 25 million users. Exactly 10 years ago, at 6.43pm on the 18th of September 2014, the very first musician registered…
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Celebrating Encore’s 3rd birthday
A nostalgic post I wrote back in 2017 on Medium: https://medium.com/@jamsusmaximus/celebrating-encores-3rd-birthday-80237847117b
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Going from 0 to 10,000 musicians
Tomorrow, if everything goes to plan, we will welcome our 10,000th musician to Encore, and for that reason, I cannot sleep. It’s hard to believe how far we’ve come in such a relatively short space of time, and I’m having a tricky time wrapping my head around the idea that 10,000 people have invested their…
