GoKawiilKey Takeaways Lovable CEO Anton Osika is asking laid-off Big Tech workers to consider joining his startup.
Osika said that the era of U.S. tech giants as the “safe, prestigious choice” of employment is over.
Lovable plans to hire hundreds of people globally this year.
Big Tech’s loss is a startup’s gain.
Lovable, a $6.6 billion AI startup, is betting that Big Tech’s layoffs can be its breakthrough. The company wants to turn laid-off employees from Meta, Microsoft and Google into its next key hires.
In a LinkedIn post earlier this week, Lovable cofounder and CEO Anton Osika told laid-off workers that “the era of American big tech as the safe, prestigious choice is over.” Osika wanted disillusioned tech workers to rethink where “safe” really is.
“If you are on the job market this month or tired of wondering if you are next, consider Lovable,” Osika wrote in the post. “We’re looking for people who want to do the best work of their career in an extremely fast-paced environment.”
Anton Osika. (Photo by Big Event Media/Getty Images for HumanX Conference)
Osika’s recruiting pitch arrives as Silicon Valley faces waves of job cuts while its biggest players ramp up spending on AI projects and infrastructure. Over the past several years, companies like Meta, Amazon, Google and Microsoft have collectively shed tens of thousands of jobs, even as they commit hundreds of billions of dollars to AI-related expenditures and product development.
Meanwhile, Lovable plans to add hundreds of people to its global workforce this year, per CNBC. It is hiring in most of its departments, including sales, product and engineering. The company is wagering that turmoil inside tech giants will push top-tier talent to consider faster-moving startups instead.
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