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Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
- ▶ 1:22:09 Julien Bek One of them is Nikolai from Revolut. 2 times in the scene
Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash
- ▶ 12:38 Harry Stebbings Nick Staronsky from Revolut.
Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 1:02:45 Jason Lemkin I also just read a story that the CEO of Revolut just tried to get out of paying a twenty million dollar broker fee and a four hundred million dollar Yachty bot. 6 times in the scene
How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:50 Harry Stebbings Every single big founder I've had, Nick at Revolut included, said the single biggest mistake he made around marketing was he did not appreciate brand marketing enough early enough.
Inside Legora: Jude Law Generated $50M Pipeline | Are They Undervalued at $5.5BN? | Patrick Forquer · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:50 Harry Stebbings You know, I had Nick from Revolut on the show. 2 times in the scene
ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:16 unnamed speaker But it also is who, like, who Nick and the team are at Revolut.
How Hims & Hers Reached a $4.3BN Market Cap on $2.3BN of Revenue | Andrew Dudum · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:30 Harry Stebbings When I had Nick from Ravelud on the show, he, he said something fascinating.
- ▶ 36:36 Harry Stebbings When I, when I interviewed Nick at Revolut, he said brand marketing was the single biggest thing he's changed his mind on in the journey of Revolut, which I thought was an interesting statement.
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:26 Sebastian Siemiatkowski I think Nick is a fantastic guy. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:29 Sebastian Siemiatkowski Because I think, ah, Nick's challenge right now might be that he is so distributed. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:01 Harry Stebbings I actually, I actually sent Nick at Revolut a song to get him to come on the show most recently, and it helped get him on the show. 2 times in the scene
20Growth: How Wix Built a $100M Marketing Machine | Why LTV is BS and Why Time Return On Investment is the Most Important Metric | How to 10x Your Growth: What is the Next Great Channel with Omer Shai, CMO @ Wix
- ▶ 32:16 Harry Stebbings It's so funny, I had Nick from Revolut on the show, and he said, my number one lesson that I wish I knew when I started,
Fuse CEO Alan Chang: The Revolut Playbook of Speed & Ownership, Why Founders Aren’t Ambitious Enough · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20 Harry Stebbings Dude, I think a really interesting one to start with is, you're a frickin' machine, and I just want to understand, when we look at, like, transformative moments, one of the most transformative early moments to you was getting the job with… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:35 Alan Chang Yeah, so at the time, in terms of full time, it was Nick, Vlad, and two other full time engineers, and that was it.
- ▶ 3:43 Alan Chang The second moment was, uh, I asked Nick, like, what's, what's your ambition? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:36 Harry Stebbings What did you learn from Nick about managing people and people performance? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:56 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, when you were building Revolut with Nick and the team, what was your biggest disagreement with Nick, and how did that play out? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:45 Harry Stebbings When I interviewed Nick, the thing that struck me was he said about the 26 kind of product, ah, experiments were being run internally at the same time.
- ▶ 13:54 Harry Stebbings Nick's publicly said that he thinks he should have done. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:44 Alan Chang Um, I was explaining to Nick, I actually forgot what, what, what it was, but you know, I failed at something. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:40 Harry Stebbings Like, if you look, again, I love Nick, and I think he's a phenomenal leader and one of the greatest founders that I've ever interviewed ever, and I've done a thousand founder interviews. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:22 Harry Stebbings Do you think he'll be able to crack the US? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:27 Harry Stebbings Do you remember telling, Nick? 8 times in the scene
Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:41 Harry Stebbings But Nick has famously always told me, culture's fucking bullshit.
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg
- ▶ 49:50 Harry Stebbings Funny, I interviewed Nick from Revolut, and he was like, ah, culture's bullshit.
20VC: Inside Bending Spoons Acquisition Machine: Evernote, Eventbrite, Vimeo | How Evernote Evaluates Acquisitions and New Product Ideas | How Evernote Mastered Product Launches, User Retention and Monetisation with Federico Simionato
- ▶ 2:46 Federico Simionato My favorite episode, I think, is the one with Nick from Revolut. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 8:33 Harry Stebbings I'm fortunate to know Nick from Revolut and interviewed him a couple of times, and he always says, like, culture is kind of bullshit.
Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:16 Harry Stebbings I'm, I know Nick at Revolut very well.
Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:48 Alex Bouaziz I told you, I look up to Nick a lot. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:42 Harry Stebbings I think my biggest takeaway from Nick actually is how he treats Revolut in some ways, like an incubation unit for new product testing. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 7:38 Harry Stebbings Nick places quite a lot of emphasis on like, oh, Oxford or Cambridge, I think.
- ▶ 20:53 James Gibson So one of the key characteristics of Revolut, you'll have probably spoken to Nick about, is that we have a very flat hierarchy, and because we try and hire very, very good people, we shouldn't need, as managers, to be spending hours and…
- ▶ 23:36 James Gibson And that's the one then that Nick or Vlad occasionally join, and they'll then have their views at that point.
- ▶ 26:07 Harry Stebbings It's interesting, Nick said the same one to me.
- ▶ 28:12 Harry Stebbings When I spoke to Nick, he said there were 26 new bets running at a time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:37 James Gibson I mean, Nick and Vlad are big fans of, right, what does that actually mean? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:49 James Gibson Nick and Vlad have done a phenomenal job, obviously, with Revolut. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:27 Harry Stebbings Tell me about a time when you most vociferously disagreed with Nick. 6 times in the scene
20VC: Why 90% of Founders Build Startups Wrong | Why AI Growth Rates are Sustainable & Remote Work is BS and the AI Talent War | Competing with Brett Taylor and Sierra: Who Wins the Customer Service War with Jesse Zhang, Decagon
- ▶ 46:28 Harry Stebbings My favorite is Nick at Revolut. 2 times in the scene
20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
- ▶ 43:08 Harry Stebbings One of the best shows that I've done, well, definitely one of the most widely received, was Nick at Revolut. 2 times in the scene
20Product: Why Most CPOs are Bad | Why You Do Not Need PMs in a World of AI | Why the Design Stage is Dead and How to Use Vibe Coding to Replace It | The Three Roles All Founders End Up Firing on Repeat with Jason James @ Tezi
- ▶ 40:24 Harry Stebbings This focus on culture is, is actually largely bullshit, and I've learned this from Nick at Revolut, and you may disagree with me here, so I'm very open to it, but it's, 2 times in the scene
Databricks at $100BN, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Bet & Nubank’s $2.5B Profit Shocker - Ep.19 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:58 Harry Stebbings When I had Nick on the show from Revolut, he said, we think about banking like snacks. 3 times in the scene
Lovable CEO, Anton Osika: The State of Foundation Models, Grok vs OpenAI, and Replit vs Bolt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:25 Anton Osika Uh, and one is I speak to Nick who built Revolut, and he just tells me like, Anton, you need to compute the payback time and then you need to do 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:54 Harry Stebbings You mentioned Nick earlier at Revolut. 2 times in the scene
Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:31 Martin Mignot And so if you take, you know, Nick at Revolut, you know, as an example of that, a lot of his decisions and a lot of his core insights were just linked to that 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:21 Martin Mignot And I think I thought, you know, Nick at the time wasn't a natural, um, you know, kind of storyteller and, and, and fundraiser.
- ▶ 54:11 Harry Stebbings How did you first meet Nick? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:58 Martin Mignot It's, you know, if you ask Nick, I think he will say the, he will say the opposite, which is if you were to do it again, he would probably go for a banking license earlier. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:15 Harry Stebbings My bet is never bet against Nick. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:51 Harry Stebbings It's kind of a horrible one in some ways, because it's just, like, obvious and shit, but we spoke about, kind of, people's ambition, Nick's ambition.
- ▶ 1:20:09 Martin Mignot I mean, it's obviously pretty incredible to see them, you know, seeing Nick at, uh, at Seed versus Nick now, you know, Will at Seed and Will now, like, oh, totally, it's, it's just,
20Product: Should We Kill the PM Role Entirely | How Does Product Design Change Most in a World of AI | How Do Monzo Build Product Today: What Works, What Does Not | Why Most Product Sucks and What Makes Truly Great Product
- ▶ 36:15 Harry Stebbings and it's like, Ian, Nick from Ravelu. 4 times in the scene
Fiverr CEO & Founder, Micha Kaufman: "If You’re Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You’re Done!" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:40 Harry Stebbings I know it sounds weird, but Nick on the show said to me, I don't think life, from Revolut, I don't think life's about happiness.
20VC: The Science of Storytelling: Three Steps to Master the Perfect Story | From Near Death Experience to Unicorn Startup: The Untold Story of Omaze with Matt Pohlson
- ▶ 1:03:44 Harry Stebbings I had Nick on the show, and there are some shows when, like, you, you kind of have to be a journalist, because if you're not, it will discredit the entire show. 2 times in the scene
20VC Exclusive: Mercury Founder Launches First $26M Fund with Immad Akhund · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:29 Harry Stebbings Like Nick at Revolut is incredibly tight on secondaries, especially in between rounds.
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
- ▶ 16:56 Harry Stebbings You think Nick is good for psychology or storytelling? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:56 Eleonore Crespo On my side, I would love also to have Nick at Revolut. 4 times in the scene
Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:53 Harry Stebbings Do you think Nick should go public in London? 6 times in the scene
20Growth: Inside Kraken's $1.5BN Growth Playbook: What Works, What Doesn't and What No Founders Understand About Growth That Will Change Their Company with Mayur Gupta
- ▶ 31:59 Harry Stebbings I had Nick on from Revolut, and like Nick is performance to the fucking max. 4 times in the scene
Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:08 Harry Stebbings I have to think as an investor about distribution of gains and outcomes in any given market, and I had Nick from Revolut on the show, and he said that kind of the next generation would see really the consolidation of banking providers. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:33 Harry Stebbings And we had, you know, obviously Nick on
Julia Hoggett, CEO @ LSEG plc: The Myths and the Reality of The London Stock Exchange · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:32 Harry Stebbings Well, I interviewed Nick at Ravni, I think about the fastest growing technology companies, and I asked him, are you going to list it? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:31 Julia Hoggett Companies like Revolut exist because Nick sat there and envisaged a way of providing financial services that at the time didn't exist.
- ▶ 38:17 Harry Stebbings The first is you mentioned Nick that you may not, it might be a horrible one to ask. 2 times in the scene
Anton Osika, Co-Founder and CEO @ Lovable: Hitting 85% Day 30 Retention - Better than ChatGPT · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:41 Harry Stebbings You said there about energy and it reminded me of a statement that Nick at Revolut said to me in a show when he was talking about his investing. 3 times in the scene
George Bonaci, VP of Growth @Ramp: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever |E1264 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:31 Harry Stebbings You know, I'm, um, interviewed Nick at Revolut.
Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:06 Harry Stebbings I asked Nick at Revolut this.
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:49 Harry Stebbings You kind of remind me of Nick from Revolute, which is like, when you're talking, you're like, you know what?
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:50 Harry Stebbings But we had Nick on the show from Revolut, and he said that actually when they look at the work they do with quantum light and analyzing founder age, 25 to 35 is actually the optimal time they find best performance.
Victor Riparbelli, CEO @Synthesia: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai - Who Wins and Why | E1246 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:17 Harry Stebbings Uh, I had Nick on the show from Revolut, and he's like, I am highly rational, not a rational decision.
Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:27 unnamed speaker Dude, I, I, I told you, I, I, I sent the Revolut team the song we did for Nick Staronsky, their CEO, and it was great.
Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:01 Harry Stebbings You know, Janssen, Nick at Revolut, who we had on the show the other day, uh, they both talked about having, I mean, 45, 50.
Torsten Reil, Helsing Founder: Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | E1237 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:39 Harry Stebbings You know, we just had Nick on the show from Revolut, and he spoke about running 27 bets at the same time.
Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:47 Harry Stebbings So if I take, for example, Nikolai at Revolut, he has fucking controlled that cap table.
Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:53 Harry Stebbings We we've said this before, but Nikolai at Revolut isn't always the most calming influence.
Antoine Le Nel, CGO @Revolut: How Revolut Launch and Grow Products & Why CAC is a BS Metric | E1216 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:44 Harry Stebbings And saying how Nick's dedication today is just as much as it was when you joined.
- ▶ 27:42 Harry Stebbings It's only a billion to, come on Nick, founder mode.
- ▶ 38:19 Antoine Le Nel I think that's the power of, uh, of Revolut and, uh, and that's the same, I mean, with Nick and so on. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:12 Harry Stebbings You've worked with Nick now for a number of years. 9 times in the scene
Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:47 Harry Stebbings Nikolai Staronsky. 4 times in the scene
Val Scholz: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics & Strategies | E1168 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:12 Val Scholz Nick, uh, was a trader, right, like trading millions or hundreds of millions, uh, of currencies. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:04 Val Scholz I mean, Revolut, if you think about it, like we, Nick and Flat, they launched 2015, uh, June.
- ▶ 24:19 Val Scholz Similar to the story about Nick is that the best founders, they have a very unique view on the market. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:37 Val Scholz I mean, I think we mentioned before, like Alan or Chad, I think myself, I think Nick, Nick basically looked at, looked for very young people, very driven people, very smart people.
- ▶ 37:00 Val Scholz So every week we have a design sync with Nick and you just had to show like, hey, we're making progress, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:10 Harry Stebbings Because they benefited from his wisdom? 10 times in the scene
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:25 Harry Stebbings What advice would you give Nick at Revolut on getting regulated? 2 times in the scene
Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:29 Harry Stebbings Speaking to you, Christian, that reminds me of like, if Nick at Revolut and Keith were one mind,
20VC: Scaling Zapier To $140M ARR and a $5Bn Valuation on $1.4M of Funding, What Founders Misunderstand About Fundraising & How Founders Should Think About Secondaries Today with Wade Foster, Founder & CEO @ Zapier
- ▶ 0:01 Harry Stebbings TwentTVC with me, Harry Stebbings, and if you have not checked out our episode on Monday with Nikolai, founder at Revolut, that is a must, but now we are joined by yet another very, very special unicorn founder.
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
- ▶ 34:08 Sebastian Siemiatkowski And that's why, you know, people compare us to, I know you're going to have Revolut as an example, or you already had Nick. 3 times in the scene