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Growth lessons behind Lovable’s $6.6B valuation (shared on Lenny’s podcast!)

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It’s been a big week for Lovable - we raised at a $6.6B valuation just 13 months after launch. Wowza. Everyone keeps asking for the secret sauce behind the growth. Sorry to disappoint - there’s no magic new channel. We just do a few things differently, and we’re relentless about them. I was back on Lenny’s Podcast for the fourth time (but who’s counting?), and we talked about what growth at Lovable actually looks like in practice. Here are a few of the major growth topics that I wanted to unpack a bit. Optimize for empathy & emotion Build in public Shipping velocity is everything Invest in your community Social>search Give a lot of shit away Like I told Lenny: Not every company can or should be like Lovable! A very unique set of circumstances came together to make this outlier growth trajectory possible: be at the right place, at the right time, with a right group of people, and in the fast moving waters of a category that is rapidly expanding. But still, Lovable has 100’s of competito

It’s been a big week for Lovable - we raised at a $6.6B valuation just 13 months after launch. Wowza. Everyone keeps asking for the secret sauce behind the growth. Sorry to disappoint - there’s no magic new channel. We just do a few things differently, and we’re relentless about them. I was back on Lenny’s Podcast for the fourth time (but who’s counting?), and we talked about what growth at Lovable actually looks like in practice. Here are a few of the major growth topics that I wanted to unpack a bit. Optimize for empathy & emotion Build in public Shipping velocity is everything…

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