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Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews

By michael.nunez@venturebeat.com (Michael Nuñez)

Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent $5,000 — a fifth of his marketing budg...

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Microsoft

Company • Est. 1975

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. The company became influential in the rise of personal computers through software like Windows and has since expanded into areas such as Internet services, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, video gaming, and more. A Big Tech company, Microsoft is the largest software company by revenue, one of the most valuable public companies, and one of the most valuable brands globally.

Tesla

Company • Est. 2003

Tesla most commonly refers to:Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), a Serbian-American electrical engineer and inventor Tesla, Inc., an American electric vehicle and clean energy company, formerly Tesla Motors, Inc. Tesla (unit), the SI-derived unit of magnetic flux density

GitHub

Company • Est. 2008

GitHub is a proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code. It uses Git to provide distributed version control and GitHub itself provides access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous integration, and wikis for every project. GitHub, headquartered in San Francisco, is operated by Github, Inc., a subsidiary of Microsoft since 2018.

Mark Zuckerberg

CEO, Meta

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American businessman and programmer who co-founded the social media service Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms. He is its chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and controlling shareholder.