Osvald Nitski

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475 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 25 Jul

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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

I'm not saying we're hiring people who have, you know, are in like formerly in executive positions.

We are treating everything as an executive search where we want to find someone who's at the sweet spot.

They're still hungry.

They've done the job that we want them to do for a few years.

And they're right in kind of like really hitting their prime.

So that's... When do you think people hit their prime?

We've moved away from take-home assignments.

We do one take-home assignment, which is like, can you just like use an agent to go, you're on your own for a bit of time, go use an agent, you know, produce this artifact for me and we'll look at it.

Do that once, you know that the person's AI fluent.

And then we move towards a lot of whiteboarding because we want to avoid, like we'll do one round where we know, where we find out if the person is familiar with AI tools.

We care a lot about being able to set up good experiments and understanding statistics, having good judgment, and then systems design as well.

The reason is these are just skills that are so easy to... I'm so sorry to interrupt you.

We ask people, well, I don't want to give away too much about our interview process, but we need to run a lot of experiments as a product team.

We need to make sure that our team knows how to run a good experiment that actually reveals information and isn't just totally fudged.

And with AI tools, it's very easy to offload a lot of thinking and a lot of judgment.

We want to make sure that people still have the ability to have good judgment and know what they're doing and not just regurgitate what comes out of cloud.

I tell my team it's kind of like phones.

They kind of fry your brain and they turn it into goop.

But I do a lot of stuff on my phone.

I use my phone all the time.

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