Luke Harries

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1,470 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 11 Jan

Luke Harries’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs · 11 Jan 2026 podcast

And also Philip, the guy who organized it, he founded Wordware.

which is the largest raise from YC ever.

I think it's about $40 million.

So yeah, that's a great hackathon to do.

I love Philip.

Oh yeah, Philip's awesome.

And that's still my LinkedIn cover photo is me, Matty and Philip hacking over this computer when we're 19.

You have to have him on the pod.

I mean, Fela was a wild journey.

It's me and my friend Richie, and we just want to do a startup.

So we applied to YC.

We got into YC actually with an AI developer tool.

And we quickly realized we were trying to do like browser-based automation where you automate tasks on people's behalf.

So, you know, you're sending an email and it like auto completes it.

But this was back in 2019 before LLMs were really a thing.

The transformer paper just came out, but like GPT-3 didn't even exist.

So we've gone to YC, we tried building a prototype and we're like, oh, this just isn't going to work.

And a brief detour is as we realized this wasn't going to work, COVID hit.

And we were there trying to brainstorm the next billion dollar idea whilst also seeing this like impending wave of what everyone thought was a killer virus crossing across the world.

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