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: (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 ----------------------------------------------- Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3j2KMcZTtgTNBKwtZBMHvl?si=85bc9196860e4466 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-twenty-minute-vc-20vc-venture-capital-startup/id958230465 Follow Harry Stebbings on X: https://twitter.com/HarryStebbings Follow Anton Osika on X: https://twitter.com/antonosika Follow 20VC on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/20vchq Follow 20VC on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@20vc_tok Visit our Website: https://www.20vc.com Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://www.thetwentyminutevc.com/contact ----------------------------------------------- #20vc #harrystebbings #antonosika #lovable #ceo #founder #openai #grok #siliconvalley #europe #startups