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Anton Osika

Anton Osika

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About Anton Osika

Anton Osika is the co-founder and CEO of Lovable, building what he calls "the last piece of software" - an AI-powered tool that turns descriptions into working products without requiring any coding knowledge. Lovable became Europe's fastest growing startup, reaching $17.5M ARR in 3 months and achieving unicorn status ($1.8B valuation) in just 8 months.

Career Highlights

  • Lovable (2023-present): Co-founder and CEO, $200M raised at $1.8B valuation
  • Depict.ai (2019-2023): Co-founder and CTO, e-commerce recommendation systems
  • Sana Labs (2016-2019): First employee and engineer, sold to Workday for $1B
  • Stockholm AI (2015-2016): Founded community during early deep learning wave
  • CERN: Internship in particle physics
  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology: Physics background

Notable Positions

On Building for the 99%

The core mission:

"0.5% of the world can even code and much fewer can build a great product. I decided let's build something for the 99% and not this productivity boost for developers. That's going to be a completely new type of interface where you rim your idea of some technical AI product into existence."

On Founder Mode

Running a hypergrowth company:

"I run the company on founder mode. At this stage there's a big shift in focusing on empowering and unblocking the leaders in the company. It's more analytical. There are so many things thrown at you especially as you start hyperscaling."

On Experience vs High Slope Hires

Building the team:

"For things that have to get done and we know what those things are, it is effective to hire people who have done it before. For sales, marketing - I'm looking for experience. Then also hire people with high slopes who are generalists and find a good way to move them around in the company."

On Lightweight Planning

Staying nimble:

"We've done very little planning. Everything is changing very rapidly. We do have a launch roadmap that goes out six months but I'm sure it's going to change. It's pretty flexible - within that six months we can deep pivot."

On Speed of Integration

The 24-hour window:

"The moment something comes out either internally from our research team or from other teams, you have 24 hours to start integrating that into your product. That's the most important time to really be ahead."

Key Quotes

  • "Building for the 99% who can't code."
  • "24 hours to integrate or you fall behind."
  • "Founder mode with intentional structure."