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Anton Osika

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“Respect Fig Because they're good at listening to their users and building a good product. And if they can translate that to the full product lifecycle, they're very formidable competitors.”
2025-08-18 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Lovable CEO Anton Osika on $120M in ARR in 7 Months | The Honest Truth About Defensibility and Unit Economics for AI Startups | The State of Foundation Models: Long Grok, Short OpenAI, Why | Replit vs Lovable vs Bolt: What Happens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think OpenAI is pretty good at building products. I think there's other foundational apps that will do even better at building products. And those are the ones we should think about for the future, but mainly focus on just what do our users want, how do we make a better product.”
2025-08-18 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Lovable CEO Anton Osika on $120M in ARR in 7 Months | The Honest Truth About Defensibility and Unit Economics for AI Startups | The State of Foundation Models: Long Grok, Short OpenAI, Why | Replit vs Lovable vs Bolt: What Happens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Humans were very good at competing. And in some cases, that's amazing. That's how you get all the best companies. Also, you get great technology. But in some cases, we're competing and then we go to war with each other, like we start preparing for wars. And I think if we can be better at thinking big picture across superpowers, that would prevent the scenario where you have AI that can kill all people in the other nation in an instant and that being triggered without us actually wanting that to happen. Yeah, I'm concerned that us being so competitive in a world where things happen much faster is going to lead to some unexpected results that no one really wants.”
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“I think we're going to have maybe a shift away from some very glamorous jobs, which people will get depressed by, like similarly to how being an artist was so fucking cool. But clearly you can't make any money as an artist. We're going to see that again now for a lot of knowledge work.”
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“I worry about us humans globally not even understanding what we want to achieve on this planet. And if there's a lot of rapid change with like white collar workers being out of a job and humans, we get super worried and concerned and scared. All hell is going to break loose. So that's what I'm worried about. But if we're a bit more thoughtful in terms of like, okay, if there will be insane amount of job displacement, this is kind of what we think we should do. And this is what we want to achieve. This is how we make sure people can make some made up job in the interim, then we would 100% solve that.”
2025-08-18 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Lovable CEO Anton Osika on $120M in ARR in 7 Months | The Honest Truth About Defensibility and Unit Economics for AI Startups | The State of Foundation Models: Long Grok, Short OpenAI, Why | Replit vs Lovable vs Bolt: What Happens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In the context of lovable, I thought we should be building an agent before the models were ready for it because the models were starting to get optimized for an age system. What I realized is that no, no, no, you need to have a product that as many people as possible are using today so that you can optimize not necessarily the AI, but optimize the entire user experience for those users and get that's your data flywheel that you want to use.”
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“Just my coach, and I talk about how I think about things. And then he asked me questions and tells me that you have to step up in this build structure in this area.”
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“Is Jania Taxel? He ran sales and CEO at Mirror and he was a Dropbox and segment. And I get a lot of input and help from him.”
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“Think the browser companies are interesting. So there's strawberry here at Stockholm. There's Dia and the Perplexity Now, I'm very excited to see what happens for other of those companies”
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“Think I would have dinner with Newton because he was like religious and super smart and just like talk about how he was in his age and why he's religious. He invented so many different things. He's a bit of a role and he's dead, so I can't meet him unless I see him now.”
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“Best ones will always be closed, but if you want maximal flexibility, and some kind of open ecosystem around it, it might be that open ones are the ones that most people choose.”
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“If we would I would look into the details and see what's bad about that. Do we give them data? We don't want to give them. But we just want to do what's best for our customers if that's going for a Chinese model and there's no negatives. Yes.”
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“Chinese companies are not as good as I really understand your users, so not very worried. I do think there's like a 50-50 chance they will have the best model. We'll be using a Chinese model at some point. And that makes me a bit concerned because of Joe.”
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“Think it's more the slope on the Groc team. They're doing something which I respect a lot, which is to hire missionaries for the data curation part. And they call it AI tutoring. I think the morale is much, much better in that team than both of the other teams. The morale is super high. OpenAI has gone through all this mess, right? Anthropics has good morale as well. growing faster on the enterprise side from what i'm hearing”
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“So far as like the sigmoid curves across many different dimensions at the same time. And yeah, we're going to see a plateauing. There's some sigmoid curves where I think we're still in this exponential phase of the sigmoid curve. And those could be something like science and engineering and like bioengineering where AI is just going to continue to like exponentially become extremely powerful and generate a lot of new medicines and new ways of treating health.”
2025-08-18 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Lovable CEO Anton Osika on $120M in ARR in 7 Months | The Honest Truth About Defensibility and Unit Economics for AI Startups | The State of Foundation Models: Long Grok, Short OpenAI, Why | Replit vs Lovable vs Bolt: What Happens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think we'll see plateauing on the things that we care about, which is a lot of nuance and like being good at all the different things at once in the same model.”
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“I think AI is smarter than humans, and most people don't agree. And the reason is that this oftentimes it's very, very stupid. But if you give it all the context or you have like, you build a purposeful system for what they are stupid at, it's smarter than humans.”
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“So it means less if we start optimizing for it, right? And as one example where it means less, I guess, is how many people click the thumbs up button, how messages, because then we can say fun jokes or whatever. For some reason just triggers people to be more just asking the human, click the bottom button if you want to do it. And then we're hacking the metric, right? So that's just one example.”
2025-08-18 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Lovable CEO Anton Osika on $120M in ARR in 7 Months | The Honest Truth About Defensibility and Unit Economics for AI Startups | The State of Foundation Models: Long Grok, Short OpenAI, Why | Replit vs Lovable vs Bolt: What Happens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, they turn more and more bullshit over time. There's something called Good Hart Slua. So when you start optimizing for a number, that number stops being a good measure for success. Even if it was a great number for a measure of success previously. So that happens with all benchmarks over time in some sense.”
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“In between. Yes, and obviously this is what an enterprise also wants to build their products on. In the interim, they're using it for individuals, like people in teams building out ideas that the enterprise companies should be doing. And then you're doing that very, very, very productively.”
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“It's your perfect co founder that you go to with your idea from the idea stage, but also all the way up to growing your business once you have customers and taking care of what Iliana is doing, optimizing the product for growth, optimizing the product and optimizing your communication with your customers, be it through email or through different marketing channels.”
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“I haven't changed my lifestyle since Lova Blue's Maybe I think less about monetary decisions, but no, lifestyle is pretty much the same.”
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“Me and Fobman, we can talk about anything, and that's extremely productive. And we can talk about turning every stone and challenging each other around anything. And we have a lot of humility. I think that's very valuable and very important. And the same is true in my marriage. Humility. Humanity has lots of humidity.”
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“Most important thing is just the raw horsepower and adaptability of the founders. If those are maxed out or those are high, you must be able to work together if you have sufficiently low ego, it's going to work. But if you really want to work extremely well together, I'll take an example, which is Fabian and me. He's not very big on doing some weird new way of doing things. He's just like simplify it as much as possible. He's quite introverting quiet until he has really shaped an opinion about what And I'm on the side of the spectrum and saying, Father, we should use this new crazy thing. And that's polarity is actually very productive for both of us.”
2025-08-18 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Lovable CEO Anton Osika on $120M in ARR in 7 Months | The Honest Truth About Defensibility and Unit Economics for AI Startups | The State of Foundation Models: Long Grok, Short OpenAI, Why | Replit vs Lovable vs Bolt: What Happens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'd love for Fabienne to have more exposure, but I also want him to be focused on building the product. That's what he focused on. It's much easier for people to relate to lovable if they see one person and keep seeing that one person. To date, that is, I think it will continue to be me.”
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“Wish I was in the details when I not delegate too much, and I wish I was more proactive about, does this person want to reach the outcomes? Are they excited, inherently motivated about the outcomes?”
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“So, I think higher engineering liters is very difficult because it's so hard to predict how their past performance will translate to our organization.”
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“What is that? Yes, I'm not so nervous about it. That is just about talking and understanding your customers, making sure they have the tools to get value from the products. That is what I see that part. And there, of course, many enterprises like top-down enterprise sales team that hustle themselves to wine and dine CEOs. That's not what we're going to do.”
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“I think the bottleneck for our long term future is how we identify the technical product engineers that will take the product to its next phase and innovate on many, many fronts at the same time. That's on the long term. If you think about the product today, it's giving our AI more capabilities that are really like make it really polished user experience and give it more of those capabilities so that you can build out your full company, grow your business on top of lovable, then a bottleneck is for how we serve all these extreme amount of enterprise customers love and pull from them. At the same time as we focus, probably one is for founders building on love.”
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“No, I don't think so. There was, of course, a plan for how to incorporate it and get more value together. Open source can be very useful for many businesses with the perspective of maximal focus. It was just a bad idea to do things that were too tangentially related. So that's definitely one thing. And we talk a lot about doing one thing, finding the bottleneck for the company, solving for that bottleneck is the best way to move really, really fast.”
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“When we started, we had this idea. The vision was very clear. The sequencing was not so clear in what we should be doing. We had this open source community that was kind of excited about a tool I made a few months ago before we started the company, GPT engineer. I think we shouldn't just scrap that completely and we 100% focus on what's the future look like in terms of building, opening your browser, just building your product there, which is lovable.”
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“About moving, yes, when I was about to start the company, everyone was, of course, telling me I should go to SF. But we just kept building and we found some great people in Stockholm. So we kept building it from here. I'm happy how it turned out.”
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“I mean, we are the biggest talent magnet in Stockholm right now, which is amazing. It's much, much, more difficult to be that in San Francisco or New York. We can really pick up all the underutilized talent and X their performance by being in a 10x better culture or ways of working and with amazing colleagues. So being able to be that top one is, I think, the biggest one. There's a culture of humility and low ego and working really well together as a team that I think is stronger in Europe and like this way of thinking in terms of efficiency and doing much, much more with less.”
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“Think it's about storytelling and sharing everything we're doing at the company and empowering other people who are using lovable, telling their stories a bit of that. That's how I've been breaking through. We understand that you should be building in public and share what you're doing.”
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“I think it's easier to get distribution to be on the center world stage in San Francisco and New York. But we've been able to pull that off from Stockholm, which is a good proof that you can do it from here.”
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“Maybe we'll get here here soon. That's hard mode. I think access to capital, people that will quickly give you a lot of distribution, help you with distribution and brand. Do you think access to capital?”
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“The hard mode is where the network isn't as great in how many individuals and companies that have worked on and have context for all the different stages of building an amazing multinational company.”
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“There are many good things about Europe. There are also good things, things that are better in the US, for example. I want to prove that you can build a generational product, a generational company team from Europe. And part of it is on hard mode.”
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“If you have superclear product market fit, you have a brand to defend, you cannot stick issues. You can do that in sprints to innovate, but you really need to focus on are these pieces put well together, spend a lot of time on moving things around in the organization, in your product, so that it has high quality, maintains high quality, and you can build faster upon that foundation.”
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“Yeah, so this cowboy versus farmer analog where a farmer is like optimizing things for the long term. And I think we can do a bit more of that optimizing things for the long term. But we always strike the balance of doing innovating.”
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“There is a certain personality type that takes a lot of initiative. They're very, very excited about new ideas and doing novel things. And as your company matures, that is still an important ingredient, but you need the first priority to make what you have high quality to continue to be high quality and improve the quality across everything you're doing. And I want us to be even more memeifying, let's improve the quality, let's improve how we do things, move slow so that we can move really, really fast.”
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“Yeah, I think you always makes it clear to people that I need to always figure out am I like how can I have more impact? And then I think in terms of what does this organization look like, is it optimally set up to succeed right now? Culture is such an important part. If you just throwing people around too much, it hurts the culture and other ways of working. But doing this business exercise of saying, who is this organization set up perfectly to win definitely shapes how I build the organization?”
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“How we think about it is that you are here to have 10x impact of other people at other companies. If you don't have 10x impact, so you do that by being very talented, being good at your job and being very focused. For some people, you need to put in a shit ton of hours, but not for everyone. Am I seeing the impact? Am I seeing that if you would tell me you're living tomorrow, I would be like, no, you are such an important part of this company, you have to stay. And that's how I push performance and impact.”
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“Think over a 10 year period, I would advocate for some balance, but if over a two year period, if you really care about something, then you should make sure that you have like you get your exercise, you sleep in really, really well. Maybe something that you know relaxes you and then just work your ass off. That's what you should be doing”
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“One of the biggest bottlenecks for this company is going to be some kind of change management for the humans in the organization. And I think they should be asking how have similar companies to ours changed management very, very, very rapidly and get that conversation into like the leadership room and then maybe across the entire organization to study those examples of where change management has been very successful and then look at specifically which AI tools should we be using. Should we be building our product on top of lovable 100% because then everyone can collaborate or should we hire some new type of people that come in and upskill everyone?”
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“50 50. Like, some people are just super loyal to a brand. Many people, I mean, if you do something that hurts your brand, they will switch and they're just out there looking for maximizing some kind of cost versus capabilities objective. You can think about both of those groups simultaneously. If you have the best product with the best value, you're going to get everyone.”
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“Customer experience. So, yes, I imagine there are also some benefits of being having been around for a long time in the enterprise, in banking, there's a certain element of trust and so on. So I don't know how large this shift is going to be in across different segments of the enterprise market. Many companies will get disrupted by cheaper, much, much better alternatives.”
2025-08-18 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Lovable CEO Anton Osika on $120M in ARR in 7 Months | The Honest Truth About Defensibility and Unit Economics for AI Startups | The State of Foundation Models: Long Grok, Short OpenAI, Why | Replit vs Lovable vs Bolt: What Happens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, if they're not enabled, there's someone else that will come in and be enabled. I think you see this in banking. Like, for example, where bank is a software company, right? It's all about software systems. The old banks are moving much slower. Yes, there is going to be some companies that are like built ground up for an AI to change their systems. And anyone who's exposed to like customers understanding the legal requirements and so on can move much, much faster in creating a good.”
2025-08-18 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Lovable CEO Anton Osika on $120M in ARR in 7 Months | The Honest Truth About Defensibility and Unit Economics for AI Startups | The State of Foundation Models: Long Grok, Short OpenAI, Why | Replit vs Lovable vs Bolt: What Happens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If you just do a very, very specialized job for those years, maybe you'll become less of a generalist so that there's a trade-off there, of course, while as university, you're exposed to many different concepts, which can be useful.”
2025-08-18 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Lovable CEO Anton Osika on $120M in ARR in 7 Months | The Honest Truth About Defensibility and Unit Economics for AI Startups | The State of Foundation Models: Long Grok, Short OpenAI, Why | Replit vs Lovable vs Bolt: What Happens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is now 20 years in the future, pretty. Oh, so it's hard to say something about 20 years in the future. I think it's a great experience I've had in life. Why not? But it depends on what outcome you want to reach. If you want to have a job where you make the most money, no, they shouldn't go to university.”
2025-08-18 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20VC: Lovable CEO Anton Osika on $120M in ARR in 7 Months | The Honest Truth About Defensibility and Unit Economics for AI Startups | The State of Foundation Models: Long Grok, Short OpenAI, Why | Replit vs Lovable vs Bolt: What Happens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source