James Gibson

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Sep 26, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Revolut Sets Three-Year Strategies Driven by Concrete Product Deliveries
“Once a year, we set a three-year strategy, which has kind of what we want to focus on and why, but very quickly gets down to concrete product deliveries that we want to make.”
James Gibson Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 36:22 20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
Sep 26, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Gibson: Vinted achieves higher user engagement than Instagram
“I am very impressed with what the team at Vinted have been able to do. It's a bit of a weird one, but the level of engagement I see from people who use the app is apps, the unreal, and people, it's like an addiction. I mean, they're using it more than they wou…”
James Gibson Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 50:04 20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
Sep 26, 2025
Insight
Gibson: High performers won't spend days on interview take-home assignments
“Very high performing people tend to not want to dedicate two days of their life to solving a problem, and so you have to make sure it's something reasonable. So we do use them, but I would say in a limited way.”
James Gibson Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 15:18 20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
Sep 26, 2025 negative
Insight
Gibson: High Proportions of New Hires Dilute Product Velocity
“You cannot keep velocity going with a lot of new, because people need time to learn, right?”
James Gibson Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 38:09 20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
Sep 26, 2025
Insight
Gibson: Top candidates make quick decisions and navigate ambiguity well during offers
“How good people tend to handle it. They have a good idea from the outset, what they want and what criteria need to be met. And they make kind of decisions quite quickly. They're also willing on some level to deal with ambiguity.”
James Gibson Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 15:54 20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
Sep 26, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gibson: Baseline work pace at Revolut is 11 to 12 hours daily
“Try and work about maybe like 11, 12 hours a day with a bit of exercise in the middle, that sort of thing. I found, I mean, that's eight years in. That's my kind of marathon pace, I would say. And then when we need to work harder, we can.”
James Gibson Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 48:14 20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
Sep 26, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Gibson rates Revolut Business onboarding funnel a 6 or 7 out of 10
“I would give it six or seven out of 10.”
James Gibson Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 30:54 20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
Sep 26, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Revolut Back-Tests Interviewers Based on Hired Employees' Performance Reviews
“We gather these data points for the people that they do hire. So we know the performance reviews that those people go on to get, and then we can basically back test the interviewer and give them scores. And you see the distribution of outcomes of the people th…”
James Gibson Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 9:04 20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
Sep 26, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Revolut Business surpasses $1B annualized revenue and $33B monthly volume
“Now, under his leadership, Revolut Business now processes over 33 Billion in monthly transaction volumes, and generates more than a billion dollars in annualized revenue.”
Harry Stebbings Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 0:20 20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
Sep 26, 2025
Disclosure
Storonsky demands Revolut maintain its eight-year growth rate despite scale
“Nick has set for me and for us to continue the level of growth that we've had over the last eight years I've been there. We're trying to continue to grow at the same rate despite being at a much larger scale and with all the complexities that comes with that.”
James Gibson Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 19:19 20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
Sep 26, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Gibson: Revolut's executive team has stayed stable for up to eight years
“I think one of the most amazing things about Revolut is that we have a senior team who have been in the company now for quite a long time, and it's been relatively stable. And I've worked now with a bunch of people, my peers, and I've worked with them for, wel…”
James Gibson Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 49:06 20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
Sep 26, 2025 positive
Opinion
Gibson: Financial motivations should be discussed openly during job interviews
“The idea that you can't talk about it properly and openly during the interview process or towards the end of the interview process, at least, it, to me, doesn't make any sense at all.”
James Gibson Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 15:01 20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
Sep 26, 2025
Insight
Gibson: Deliverable quality matters far more than task volume early in careers
“No one remembers if you've done 15 different things in your first three months, they'll remember the quality of what you did.”
James Gibson Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 6:17 20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
Sep 26, 2025
Insight
Gibson: B2B customer needs usually have consensus, simplifying product decisions
“In most cases, what customers want, there tends to be consensus across a lot of customers. It tends to feel, particularly on B to B, relatively straightforward to know what to do.”
James Gibson Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 30:02 20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
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