Osika: Versatile generalists are much more important for modern product teams
Anton Osika · Building Lovable: $10M ARR in 60 days with 15 people | Anton Osika (CEO and co-founder) · Mar 9, 2025 · at 40:45
Anton Osika, co-founder and CEO of Lovable, discusses optimal hiring criteria and skill sets for product teams in the era of AI tools.
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“I mean, doing a bit of everything, being a generalist is, I think, much more important than it used to be. And the, if I'm putting together a product team today, I would re-obsess about getting as much of, as many skill sets as possible for each person I hire. Like, they should know how architecting a system works, preferably. They should know design. They should know, they should have product taste. They should know how to talk to users. I think everyone should be able to, should know a bit of all of that preferably.”
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