Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky: easy VC money makes soft founders who solve problems with cash
davidsenra · x · 2026-10-27
David Senra's podcast episode with Revolut co-founder & CEO Nik Storonsky (company valued at $115B, operating in 38 countries):
- Core take: "A lot of founders think money is free—which it almost is in California... There is a different culture of trying to solve problems with money rather than with your brains."
- Runs Revolut like a machine and funds product bets algorithmically: double down on winners, cut losers fast.
- Prefers hiring self-guided people over experienced executives, and keeps VCs off his board.
- Also covers lessons from Europe's regulatory constraints, the Quantum Light fund, and how AI is reorganizing Revolut.
Related event: Revolut CEO blasts VCs and says China's 9/9/6 engineers outcompete the West(8 posts)→
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