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Nik Storonsky
Co-founder & CEO, Revolut
Co-founded Revolut, the digital bank valued at $115 billion, and founded the QuantumLight venture fund.
Real Alpha has cut 8 moments of Nik Storonsky (Co-founder & CEO, Revolut) talking, from an interview on Founders published Oct 25, 2026.
What Nik Storonsky said
Founders · Competition, Intensity & Building a $115 Billion Global Bank | Nik Storonsky, Revolut
8 moments · 42 min
- 20:23
Revolut funds product bets by results, not intuition
“if we release a bet and then we see that this bet is historically in cohort of the bottom 25% of all the bets, we simply sunset it.”
at 21:36 - 8:45
Revolut learned that a banking license unlocks scale
“To build a large business, it's a must, right? Because if you want to really compete with banks, you need to get trust from customers.”
at 10:38 - 33:25
Constraints taught Revolut to build with fewer resources
“You need to find a way to start selling a product cheaply, build the system, and then simply feed additional employees into the system so you always have great payback.”
at 34:15 - 41:47
Founders should keep VCs out of operating decisions
“no voting right, no seat at the table at decision making, super important.”
at 44:56 - 49:20
Quantum Light invests equally across 30 to 40 startups
“our model selects 30, 40 companies to invest over two, three years. and then puts equal amount of money in each startup.”
at 51:47 - 54:22
Revolut used airport ads to buy cheaper impressions
“In my mind, we're just paying for impressions much cheaper in the physical world compared to digital world.”
at 59:43 - 23:38
AI is shrinking Revolut's teams and speeding up work
“So we automated customer support, so 90% of all customer support team is automated now.”
at 24:15 - 29:04
Self-guided hires reduce management overhead
“you just need to minimize management time spent on each of them.”
at 30:55
- 20:23
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