Anton Osika is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Lovable, the fastest growing startup in Europe. With Lovable, you can turn your idea into an app in seconds with just a prompt. After just 3 months, the company has scaled to $17.5M in ARR. They are adding $2M in net new revenue every single week. Even better, Lovable has 85% Day 30 retention rate, making it more retentive than ChatGPT.
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In Today’s Episode We Discuss:
(00:00) Intro
(00:48) How a Side Project Turned into a $200M Company
(02:04) Why Talent is 10x More Valuable Than Experience
(05:24) How to Use a Waitlist Pre-Launch to 10x Growth
(09:32) How to Master a Public Launch: $0 - $1M ARR in a Week
(15:35) Why Raise a Large Seed Round
(20:42) How Sustainable is Lovable and AI Revenue
(23:41) What are Lovable’s Biggest Threats: Incumbents or Open Source
(26:15) Raising Series A: Should You Always Take the Money
(26:49) How to Compete in the US from Europe
(27:53) Is Europe as F****** as the World Thinks
(30:40) Building in Europe vs. Silicon Valley
(33:17) The Future of Foundation Models: Who Wins
(36:33) Grok vs OpenAI vs Anthropic: Buy and Short
(43:46) Quick-Fire Round
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