Anton Osika, Co-Founder and CEO @ Lovable: Hitting 85% Day 30 Retention - Better than ChatGPT

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.

In Today’s Episode We Discuss:

• How a Side Project Turned into a $200M Company

• Why Talent is 10x More Valuable Than Experience

• How to Use a Waitlist Pre-Launch to 10x Growth

• How to Master a Public Launch: $0 - $1M ARR in a Week

• Why Raise a Large Seed Round

• How Sustainable is Lovable and AI Revenue

• What are Lovable’s Biggest Threats: Incumbents or Open Source

• Raising Series A: Should You Always Take the Money

• How to Compete in the US from Europe

• Is Europe as F****** as the World Thinks

• Building in Europe vs. Silicon Valley

• The Future of Foundation Models: Who Wins

• Grok vs OpenAI vs Anthropic: Buy and Short

• Quickfire Round: Insights and Reflections