Nick

10 statements across 8 episodes · 8 bullish · 0 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Mar 1, 2021 by Sebastian Siemiatkowski · said 5 times in 5 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Mar 1, 2021 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Siemiatkowski predicts Revolut founder Nikolay Storonsky will successfully transform retail banking
“I know you're going to have Revolut as an example, or you already had Nick. Like, obviously, partially, he's a competitor to me, but much more, he's a soulmate to me. Like, he's also going to change this industry, and he's going to do that successfully”
Sebastian Siemiatkowski Mar 1, 2021 ▶ 34:08 20VC: Klarna Founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski on Scaling Europe's Most Valuable Private Tech Company, How To Motivate and Challenge Your Team Most Effectively & The Biggest Lessons From Working with Mike Moritz
Jun 21, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky held 70 to 80 one-on-one meetings weekly
“Nick, for example, had 70, 80 one-on-ones a week. So basically like every product team sync, Nick was it. In it. Every design team think Nick was in it.”
Val Scholz Jun 21, 2024 ▶ 39:49 Val Scholz: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics & Strategies | E1168 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 21, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Revolut hired young, driven talent over pre-existing skills
“Nick basically looked at, looked for very young people, very driven people, very smart people. That was basically the main requirements, right? The thinking was kind of like, you know, we can teach people skills. We can't teach them the right behaviors or atti…”
Val Scholz Jun 21, 2024 ▶ 27:37 Val Scholz: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics & Strategies | E1168 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Hinrikus: Revolut should list in US if expanding there
“If he wants to build a big, I think here's, here's what I would tell Nick. If he wants to build a big business in the US, then he should go public in the US.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 57:09 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 9, 2025 positive
Opinion
Crespo: Revolut Has One of the World's Best Marketing Teams
“And the stories to the public are not necessarily coming from Nick, but again, he has one of the best marketing team in the world, full stop.”
Eleonore Crespo May 9, 2025 ▶ 17:35 20VC: Four Traits of the Most Successful Founders | How to Hunt and Close Talent Like a Pro and Where All Founders Go Wrong | Lessons Raising $397M From the Best Investors in the World with Eléonore Crespo @ Pigment
Aug 11, 2025 positive
Insight
Mignot: Revolut's core insight was offering costless high-volume FX for free
“FX, For a large corridor where you have a lot of volume of transfer costs nothing. So it should be given, you know, given for free, you know, to the market. And then once you have that, that's a really good hook, and then you can build something else.”
Martin Mignot Aug 11, 2025 ▶ 11:43 Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 21, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Stebbings: Revolut is incubating 26 new products in an internal venture lab
“Revolut internally has 26 new products that they are kind of baking in their venture lab, and they have insane testing, metric testing every week with Nick to determine what makes it to main stage, and they run them like little venture teams with different fun…”
Harry Stebbings Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 49:52 Databricks at $100BN, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Bet & Nubank’s $2.5B Profit Shocker - Ep.19 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 21, 2025 positive
Opinion
Stebbings: Revolut's Nik Storonsky is the best founder I have ever interviewed
“I have all the founders that I've interviewed, and I've interviewed, you know, Jason, me and you'both interviewed thousands, 100,000 He's the best I've ever met.”
Harry Stebbings Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 50:13 Databricks at $100BN, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Bet & Nubank’s $2.5B Profit Shocker - Ep.19 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 20, 2025 positive
Opinion
Bouaziz names Revolut's Nik Storonsky as his favorite founder
“By the way, Nick is my favorite founder, probably the person I look up to the most in many different ways.”
Alex Bouaziz Oct 20, 2025 ▶ 29:00 Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 5, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Revolut Founder Nikolay Storonsky Stated His Goal Was to Beat JPMorgan
“I asked Nick, like, what's, what's your ambition? Like, what keeps you motivated? And at the time he's, you know, worth quite a bit of money already. So, you know, what gives us, what drives him, right? And he told me he wants to beat JP Morgan.”
Alan Chang Jan 5, 2026 ▶ 3:43 Fuse CEO Alan Chang: The Revolut Playbook of Speed & Ownership, Why Founders Aren’t Ambitious Enough · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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