Post by Anton Osika

Today we're introducing a set of new company values at Lovable. We've grown from 20 to 150 people in the last year. As we become a bigger team, our culture makes a compounding difference. So we looked at what actually goes wrong at companies as they scale: companies stop grounding decisions in what's best for customers, people start doing things the way they've always been done, standards slip, and ownership gets shallow. The patterns are surprisingly consistent, and every value we chose is a direct response to one of them: 1. "Care Deeply" is about putting customers first and measuring our success by theirs, believing craft matters and focusing on details, and daring to be different and challenge conventions. That customer relationship is the easiest thing to lose as you grow, and the most dangerous to lose. And caring about quality means nothing if you don't also have the nerve to challenge the status quo when it's not working. 2. "Driver, not Passenger" is how we operate. Moving fast, shipping, caring about results more than talk, setting bold deadlines and acting today. We want people who push things all the way to the right outcome and who don't wait for someone to hand them a roadmap. 3. "Build a Legacy" is maybe the one we think about the most. It's about obsessing over talent, choosing candor over comfort, lifting the team with shared credit, and prioritizing collective success over individual glory. Every person on the team is a role model whether they think about it that way or not. How you work shapes how the people next to you work, and over time that just becomes your culture. To stick to these values we'll recognize role models of these values every week and use them to assess alignment when hiring. I believe culture is the thing that compounds the hardest. The way we work together today, the standards we hold, the honesty we expect from each other, that's what will still be here as we grow by 10x. If this sounds like the kind of place you want to build, we're hiring.