Listen Labs, an AI startup specializing in automated customer interviews, has secured $69 million in a Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital. The company gained significant attention earlier this year through a viral marketing campaign where it placed a billboard in San Francisco’s tech hub offering a $10,000 signing bonus for a single AI engineer role. This unconventional hiring stunt successfully drove brand awareness and recruitment. The new capital will be used to scale the company’s core technology, which uses artificial intelligence to conduct and analyze thousands of customer interviews simultaneously, providing businesses with deep, qualitative insights at a massive scale. The platform aims to automate the traditionally time-consuming process of customer discovery and feedback gathering. Read the full article at: https://venturebeat.com/technology/listen-labs-raises-usd69m-after-viral-billboard-hiring-stunt-to-scale-ai