Anton Osika
19 statements across 3 episodes · 7 bullish · 6 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 5, 2025 by Anton Osika · said 44 times in 18 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (22), Julien Bek (8), Mati Staniszewski (3), Jason Lemkin (3), Matt Murphy (2), Luke Harries (2), Hemant Taneja (1), Cliff Weitzman (1)
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2026 32 mentions in 11 episodes 3 per episode
- Elena Verna: How Lovable Launches Product & Hacks Social to Go Viral · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
- Will Open-Source Threaten Anthropic's Business & Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Matt Murphy
- 20Growth: How Wix Built a $100M Marketing Machine | Why LTV is BS and Why Time Return On Investment is the Most Important Metric | How to 10x Your Growth: What is the Next Great Channel with Omer Shai, CMO @ Wix
- 20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs
- Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 12 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries
- General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: 15 Term Sheets in 7 Days and Choosing Benchmark | Harvey vs Legora: Who Wins Legal and How to Play When You Have $600M Less Funding | Are AI Models Plateauing Today | Building a 9-9-6 Culture From Stockholm with Max Junestrand
- 20Sales: $0-$3.7BN: The Databricks CRO's Playbook to Build the Fastest GTM Engine in SaaS History | How Databricks Beat Snowflake | How To Build a Sales Org of 5,000 and Close $190M Deals with Ron Gabrisko
- 20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025
- Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
Everything said about Anton Osika, oldest first
Mar 5, 2025 negative
Osika: Lovable rejected Y Combinator due to equity dilution and distraction
“We felt that at best YC would be a lot of dilution and some acceleration with a lot of dilution and some acceleration. And at worst it would be a distraction to go through SF and go through all of these, like, fun things that happen when you go to YC. And we j…”
Mar 5, 2025
Mar 5, 2025 negative
Mar 5, 2025
Mar 5, 2025 negative
Osika: Lovable wasted effort building early in-product community features
“I think at Lovable we thought a lot about the community, and like community features inside of the product, and the, that, I think that could have made a lot of sense if we had seen slower growth. But now that it's just like growth is not something we, not a c…”
Mar 5, 2025 bullish
Mar 5, 2025 negative
Mar 5, 2025
Osika: Product user research requires separating UX observation from pain-point discovery
“So they, I think for us, there are two different types of user interviews. We have this type where we just see them use the product and see, like, where do they understand the product? And so that's more of a user experience interview. And the other one is to …”
Mar 5, 2025
Mar 5, 2025 positive
Osika: Founders should prioritize minimizing equity dilution over growing the pie
“Here again, like I have a very wise person who was like, no, dilution doesn't matter so much. It's all about the size of the pie. And I think that was, I was both affected by that advice as well as my, like, no, minimize dilution. This is my life, life's work.…”
Mar 5, 2025 bullish
Mar 5, 2025 positive
Aug 18, 2025 bearish
Osika: AI will devalue knowledge work just as fine art lost profitability
“I think we're going to have, like, Maybe a shift away from some very glamorous jobs, which people will be get depressed by, like similarly to how being like an artist was like so fucking cool, but clearly you can't make any money as an artist. I think we're go…”
Aug 18, 2025 negative
Aug 18, 2025 bullish
Osika: Lovable plans to spend $100M hiring top model-training talent
“And we have to do it both with like how we build this agentic chain and over time in building absolutely world-class paying a hundred million dollars for getting the people that train the models. So, so that's on the horizon for us to get it to like be hyper-p…”
Aug 18, 2025 neutral
Osika: AI makes generalist skills far more important than deep specialized expertise
“Like, I think being a generalist becomes more and more important with everything, in everything with AI, so that you can understand how things come together as a larger whole, and then you use AI for the, like, deep expertise that you don't need in the future …”
Aug 18, 2025
Osika: Prioritize intense work over balance for short two-year stretches
“I think over a 10 year period, I would advocate for some balance, but over a two year period if you really care about something, then you should make sure that you have, like, you get your exercise, you sleep in really, really well, and maybe something that, y…”
Aug 18, 2025 bullish
Aug 24, 2026 positive
Bek Underestimated Lovable Founder Anton Osika Due to Lacking a Meeting Plan
“I had lunch with Anton Ossica from Lovable before he founded the company, and I just didn't see it. And I'll tell you one thing that I learned from that is I didn't come to the meeting with a plan. I just had lunch with him, and it was three of us and him, and…”