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Elena’s Growth Scoop

What it’s like to work at an AI-native company

Field notes from a millennial raised in pre-AI tech

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Elena Verna
Sep 24, 2026
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Working at Lovable hits different.

I’ve worked and/or advised a lot of tech companies at this point (I think I’m becoming a pipeline for Bending Spoons acquisitions). Big ones, small ones, public ones, hypergrowth ones, slow ones, and everything in between.

But I’m also very much a millennial of the previous tech era. Most of my instincts about how companies are supposed to work were formed before AI: managers manage, people have clearly defined jobs, important decisions happen in meetings, information travels through org charts, and becoming more senior generally means managing more people.

And after more than a year at Lovable, I keep running into things that violate those instincts.

This is the first company I’ve worked at that I would describe as AI-native. And to be clear, I have exactly one data point here, so this is not a manifesto for how AI-native companies should work. I’m not even sure which parts are AI-native, which parts are Swedish, and which parts are just Lovable being L…

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