Nik Storonsky
28 statements across 5 episodes · 10 bullish · 6 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jun 21, 2024 by Val Scholz · said 24 times in 8 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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2026 9 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
- Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- Fuse CEO Alan Chang: The Revolut Playbook of Speed & Ownership, Why Founders Aren’t Ambitious Enough · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2025 13 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- 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
- Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Everything said about Nik Storonsky, oldest first
Jun 21, 2024
Revolut demanded 'special forces' level execution at maximum speed
“To put it, as Nick put it, we're like special forces. We go in, we don't fuck up. So it had that mentality that every meeting, every design catch up, every marketing campaign, essentially anything you do is perfectly executed at all times. At the maximum speed…”
Jul 8, 2024 negative
Grady: Passing on Segment and Revolut Series A rounds were terrible mistakes
“I met both of them at the Series A, and both of them told me the entire story in like five or 10 minutes. And it was super clear. And at the end of the five or 10 minutes, I couldn't think of any questions to ask because they had already answered any question …”
Dec 2, 2024
Storonsky: Underperforming new hires rarely improve after their first month
“Well, majority of people are, you see them performing strong or excellent after three, four weeks, right? So they hit the ground running on week three. Majority of them, they actually from week one. So generally, if you see a person is not performing for one, …”
Dec 2, 2024 positive
Storonsky: Founders should speak to regulators directly, not delegate to bankers
“What I really found is, is actually very bad advice, right, because whenever you speak with regulators yourself, whenever you explain exactly in plain English what we do, how we do it, because you build it yourself, or I build it myself, right, I can explain i…”
Dec 2, 2024 bullish
Dec 2, 2024 negative
Storonsky: Hiring management consultants proves your internal employees are incompetent
“Because if you look at all these management consultants, they come to you with a nice presentation explaining how to get things done. A reality here is when you start hiring management consultants to help you run the company, that means your employees are not …”
Dec 2, 2024 positive
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Dec 2, 2024 neutral
Dec 2, 2024 positive
Dec 2, 2024 negative
Dec 2, 2024 bullish
Storonsky: Revolut is ready to build a private bank for wealthy clients
“I think it was too early. Now we have a lot of customers, and then a lot of customers actually have a lot of balances with us. Some of them have, you know, millions on our accounts. So I think it's time to build the product making for people with a lot of liqu…”
Dec 2, 2024 negative
Storonsky: 99% of a CEO's job is solving unpleasant problems
“99% of time is, is, is a lot of pain, right? Because reality, what happens is, even if you have organization then all the unpleasant problems that no one else solves, and it goes into me, and I ended up doing all this, you know, shitty jobs, right? Solving pro…”
Dec 2, 2024
Dec 2, 2024 neutral
Dec 2, 2024 positive
Storonsky: Top university STEM degrees correlate positively with startup success
“Statistics clearly show that top universities STEM degree, have a much more positive correlation with the success of the company. And obviously it's not for, like, any other professional there, but particularly for startups, I mean, it is important.”
Dec 2, 2024 positive
Storonsky: An imbalanced, hyper-focused life is necessary to achieve your goals
“Majority of people believe that our balanced life allows you to be happy and achieve your goals. I think in the reality, a disbalanced life allows you definitely to achieve your goals, so more kind of imbalanced you are, more focused on your goals, sacrificing…”
Dec 2, 2024
Storonsky: Founders have zero skill assessing candidates in unfamiliar domains
“Because reality, if you never kind of, you know, worked with the designers, You have zero skills to hire designers. You never worked in the reg affairs or government affairs. You have zero skills to assess who is good, who is not. So in order to first learn th…”
Dec 2, 2024
Storonsky defines top talent as 'self-guided missiles' who hit goals independently
“Another way I define people who are excellent, strong, average, or below average is pretty simple. So, They should be like a self-guided missile, right? So excellent people, they select the goal themselves, when they press the button, then they reach the goal …”
Dec 2, 2024 positive
Storonsky: Bootstrapped, cash-generating businesses are in some ways better than Revolut
“So I've got a couple of friends who build very large businesses, and some of them, they never used VCs and they just print cash those businesses. So I think, you know, in some ways they are much better compared to me.”
Dec 2, 2024 positive
Dec 2, 2024 negative
Dec 2, 2024 negative
Storonsky: Founder age 25 to 35 is the sweet spot for success
“If you look at statistics, so 20 to 25 is actually quite negative. Like, too early is a negative then 25 to 30 is, is okay. 30 to 35 is the best age. After 35, I mean, there is a clear negative correlation with the success. So sweet spot is 25 to 35 for founde…”
Dec 2, 2024
Storonsky: Secure a banking license before acquiring customers when building a bank
“Oh, what I really learned is it's so whenever you want to build a bank, you'd rather get a banking license before you have customers. So that's kind of, you know, key lesson, because as soon as you have many customers, millions of customers, tens of millions o…”
Aug 11, 2025 bullish
Mignot: Nik Storonsky targeted building a company larger than JPMorgan Chase
“Like, you know, eventually he thinks, he's convinced there is, there will be one global money app, and that he can be that one global money app that could be better, you know, bigger than, you know, when we first met, he wanted to be bigger than JP Morgan.”
Sep 26, 2025
Gibson: Revolut founders Nik Storonsky and Vlad Yatsenko join weekly business-wide reviews
“And then once we're really confident in them, they get bubbled up to, we do a overall business one once a week, which is, this is the final output. This is going to be built. And that's the one then that Nick or Vlad occasionally join, and they'll then have th…”
Sep 26, 2025 neutral
Storonsky: Products should not fund downstream features until onboarding is optimized
“Until we've got a really good funnel that is obviously meets all the requirements that we have to meet, there's no point spending money on everything that comes after it. You need to have that top of funnel. You're just leaving money on the table.”
Sep 26, 2025
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.”