Listen Labs, a startup specializing in AI-powered customer interview analysis, has secured $69 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from existing investors. The company gained significant attention earlier this year through a viral billboard campaign in San Francisco that directly challenged OpenAI employees to join its team, a marketing and hiring stunt that boosted its public profile. The new capital will be used to scale its core technology, which uses artificial intelligence to conduct, transcribe, and analyze customer interviews at a massive scale. The platform aims to help product teams extract actionable insights from customer conversations more efficiently than manual methods. The funding signals strong investor confidence in applying AI to the market research and customer discovery space. Read the full article at: https://venturebeat.com/technology/listen-labs-raises-usd69m-after-viral-billboard-hiring-stunt-to-scale-ai