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Storonsky: Revolut obtained its Mexican banking license ahead of Nubank
“So we got a banking license in Mexico, a head of new bank.”
Nik Storonsky Dec 2, 2024 ▶ 17:55 Nik Storonsky, Revolut Founder: What Revolut Needs to Do to Hit $100BN Valuation | E1233 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Prediction Held up
Velez: Nubank is redefining itself into a broad consumer platform
“We're in the early days of using these eighty-five million digitally only consumer base to build a marketplace to go beyond financial services and enable our customers to access non-financial services products. So this is almost a redefine of what Nubank is. M…”
David Vélez Sep 11, 2023 ▶ 23:27 David Velez: How AI Changes The Future of Finance | E1059 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Nubank's Growth to $35B Proves Initial Valuation Concerns Wrong
“Like, new bank, At a billion dollars, looked pretty damn expensive. What's it worth now? Like, thirty-five billion dollars? Not so expensive.”
Angela Strange Aug 19, 2021 ▶ 27:35 20VC LATAM Part 2: a16z's Angela Strange on When To Expand Beyond Your Core Market, Why Serving the Unbanked is Such Good Business & Whether the Startup Will Acquire the Distribution before The Incumbent Acquires the Innovation?
Prediction Held up
Stebbings: Nubank will expand into the US market
“They're going to enter the U S it's a good bet. They've still got David at the helm. They're growing 28% year on year. I think we, I think new banker incredibly solid.”
Harry Stebbings Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 1:08:23 Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | The Data Center Arms Race | The Ultimate Stock Picks · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Nubank generated nearly $1 billion in profit last year
“I think they made nearly a billion profit last year or something.”
Val Scholz Jun 21, 2024 ▶ 57:53 Val Scholz: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics & Strategies | E1168 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Velez: Nubank reaches 85 million customers in Latin America
“By now we have one of the largest digitally native consumer platform, consumer basis in Latin America with eighty five million customers.”
David Vélez Sep 11, 2023 ▶ 30:02 David Velez: How AI Changes The Future of Finance | E1059 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Velez: Almost 50% of Brazilian adults are Nubank customers
“We're getting to a point where almost 50% of the Brazilian adult population is a customer of Nubank.”
David Vélez Sep 11, 2023 ▶ 17:47 David Velez: How AI Changes The Future of Finance | E1059 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Velez: Nubank holds 15% credit card and 5% personal loan market share
“In credit cards, we have about 15% market share, but in personal loans, we have five percent market share. In investments, we have about two percent. In insurance, we have one percent.”
David Vélez Sep 11, 2023 ▶ 23:18 David Velez: How AI Changes The Future of Finance | E1059 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Duggal: Over 40% of Nubank customers use it as primary bank
“We are well north of 40% of all customers, not of actives, but of all customers. And again, that's part of us holding ourselves to a high bar. So when at, when three years ago, that metric was about 10%. And so we've grown at four X, even as we've grown the cu…”
Jag Duggal Mar 29, 2023 ▶ 41:51 Jag Duggal: How We Scaled Nubank to 80M Users; Google's Brutal Hiring Practices | E995 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Prediction Held up
Nubank, Rappi, and dLocal Mafias Will Build Next LATAM Startups
“Like you've got NewBank, Rappi, Dlocal, right? And so like the kind of mafias from those companies are going to spin out and join the next generation of companies or grow the next generation of companies.”
Angela Strange Aug 19, 2021 ▶ 31:56 20VC LATAM Part 2: a16z's Angela Strange on When To Expand Beyond Your Core Market, Why Serving the Unbanked is Such Good Business & Whether the Startup Will Acquire the Distribution before The Incumbent Acquires the Innovation?
Assertion Supported
Nubank's savings product grew larger than its original credit card business
“And product number two for us Which is savings is way bigger than product number one for us. And product number three is going, is growing faster than product number two.”
David Vélez Mar 26, 2021 ▶ 16:46 20VC: Nubank CEO David Velez on Scaling Nubank to a $25BN Company, Why What Makes a Great Founder Does Not Make a Great CEO & The Responsibility Framework and How Leaders Can Use It To Drive Efficiency
Assertion Supported
Duggal: Nubank has reached 75 million customers
“We've got 70,000,075 million customers at Newbank.”
Jag Duggal Mar 29, 2023 ▶ 34:36 Jag Duggal: How We Scaled Nubank to 80M Users; Google's Brutal Hiring Practices | E995 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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