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Chang: All energy subsidies should be deleted to lower consumer costs
“Number two is I would delete all subsidies of any kind. Because the goal for energy should be as low cost as possible. A subsidy basically means It's actually not profitable to build this project, but because the subsidy is now profitable. And who, think about…”
Chang: Western nations should follow China's energy policy model
“I think that's a, yeah, model economy we should follow for energy policy.”
Alan Chang: Legacy UK energy companies are unsophisticated and inefficient
“The quality of companies operating this space is not very sophisticated. Like a lot of these existing energy companies, they are not technology driven at all. They're very old school. So pen and paper spreadsheet based companies they're incredibly inefficient.”
Alan Chang: Physical infrastructure construction in the UK should be deregulated
“I would deregulate building anything physical. I would make it so easy for anyone to build.”
Chang: Performance improvement plans are a complete waste of time
“I don't believe in pips. I think it's a waste of time.”
Chang: Revolut outexecuted Monzo and N26 purely on speed and ambition
“There wasn't any differentiation in product roadmap. But what differentiated between, you know, us and everyone else was basically ambition and the speed of execution.”
Alan Chang: Legacy banking incumbents haven't woken up to challenger threat
“I still don't think they realize. I still don't think the incumbents have woken up yet.”
Chang: Developed economies are in an energy crisis, with the UK worst off
“I think we're in energy crisis already. In, in the whole developed economies, UK is in the deepest trouble.”
Alan Chang: Eastern European engineers have strong work ethic and technical education
“Because culturally they, I think they favor technical education and they have very strong work ethic.”
Chang: Balderton repeatedly backs ex-Revolut teams due to past investment success
“Yeah, I think they really, really like the concept, and I think what they realize is, is a pretty good strategy, and I realize after the, you know, a lot of their investments, I think they, they've just, because they made so much money from the Revlon investme…”
Alan Chang: Speed of hiring quality engineers is Fuse's main bottleneck
“I think it's speed of hiring quality engineering. That, that's the biggest barrier. There's no capital. It's quality of engineering.”