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People of OLX

AI Innovators

People of OLX

5 min. read

Once you see how much time you can gain, why would you ever go back?

An interview with Joanna Rytwińska, Senior Legal Operations Specialist at OLX, on why the legal team stopped waiting for engineers and started building their own tools.

Joanna Rytwińska

Senior Legal Operations Specialist

AI Innovators

People of OLX

5 min. read

Sharing judgment, not hoarding it: How one product leader is creating an AI operating system his whole team builds on

An interview with Mohit about building the Motors operating system, bringing AI into how the whole org works, sharing how he thinks, and why PMs are becoming builders.

Mohit Kumar

Director of Product, Motors

AI Innovators

People of OLX

4 min. read

“Your goal should never be to close a customer request at any cost. Trust is hard to build and very easy to lose.”

An interview with Antonina Vodovytska, Salesforce Product Owner at OLX Romania — on building Olly, the AI that handles customer conversations, and the unexpected lesson about what makes AI trustworthy.

Antonina Vodovytska

Salesforce Product Owner

AI Innovators

People of OLX

4 min. read

“What fraudsters do is largely A/B testing – except the goal is to bypass your protection.”

An interview with Piotr Gajda, Moderation and Trust & Safety Team Leader at OLX Poland - on building a tool that moved his team from reacting to threats to seeing them coming.

Piotr Gajda

Trust & Safety Team Leader at OLX Poland

AI Innovators

People of OLX

4 min. read

“70% of users feel stressed preparing for interviews. 90% fear freezing up. I was one of them.”

An interview with Olga Terenya, Frontend Engineer at OLX Jobs Poland — on building a Virtual Interviewer that helps job seekers practice in a space where it's safe to fail.

6 min. read

“I stopped asking AI what I wanted. Instead I explained what problem I’m trying to solve”

An interview with Jeremy Castan, Data Product Manager at OLX — on 10 years in data, building a basketball team of AI agents, and the moment he deleted an entire project and started from scratch.

6 min. read

How a CEO learned that change is never finished — from accidental opportunity to print-to-digital transformation to AI revolution

An interview with George Mienie about over 20 years of transformation at AutoTrader — from accidental CEO to print-to-digital pioneer to AI believer.

George Mienie

CEO, AutoTrader South Africa

AI Innovators

People of OLX

5 min. read

“If you build something quickly but nobody understands it or finds it valuable, all you’ve done is create output — not impact.”

An interview with Inês Urbano, Senior Product Designer at OLX — on building a product feature in 7 days, learning to ask bolder questions, and why speed is only half the story.

Inês Urbano

Senior Product Designer

Built for Change

People of OLX

4 min. read

From data analyst to business leader: How Michał Malewski built businesses others said were impossible

An interview with Michał about 16 years of building, betting on horizontals, and turning "impossible" into opportunity.

Michał Malewski

VP Jobs & Services Europe

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