Osvald Nitski

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: Mercor CPO on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs | Why Large Enterprise is Scared to Partner with Frontier Labs | Why Small Specialised Models is the Future with Osvald Nitski · 25 Jul 2026 podcast

And then the other is everyone needs to up-level a lot and think,

about business impact much more.

I think that all work is starting to look like higher level.

So the kind of like the minutia and the details get sorted out way faster.

And all the PMs at Mercor have to think way more about is what I'm focusing my time on the right thing.

I can do things very quickly now.

You know, it's like there's skill issues have almost gone away.

So now it's all about judgment and am I doing what is going to drive the most business value.

One interesting thing that happened this year was our annotation platform serves a lot of different workflows.

The demand for human data is so large and it's so heterogeneous that and our delivery team is so good at delivering projects and selling projects that

We supported, I think, too many workflows for human data projects, and we built a tool that was extremely flexible in supporting all sorts of different research experiments that customers might want to do.

So the shape of data has changed a lot since it started with InstructGPT for GenAI.

from supervised fine tuning to preference ranking to all these environment type projects.

There's a lot of multimodal projects that have totally different formats and your annotation tool needs to support these and different workflows.

And customers will ask for all sorts of stuff.

We try to serve every ask.

We made a tool that's maximally flexible, has all sorts of, we have like hundreds of different projects running on it.

That's just chaos to manage.

And what we needed to do sooner was to put guardrails on the type of services that we support and work closer with our operations team to say, like, hey, here's the best practices.

You know, customers are gonna ask for everything.

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