Alan Chang
Co-Founder & CEO, Fuse Energy. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
founderexecutive@alanchanguk ↗fuseenergy.com ↗
Alan Chang was one of the earliest employees and the former Chief Revenue Officer at fintech unicorn Revolut, where he helped drive its hyper-growth and scaling. In 2022, he co-founded Fuse Energy, a vertically integrated renewable energy supplier and infrastructure company operating in the UK and internationally.
1shows
1appearances
71statements
10resolved
6supported
1contradicted
60%fully supported
7said about them ↓ Everything Alan Chang said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Chang: Employees are underperforming if a gun to the head yields more
“If you have a gun pointed to your head today, would you have done more? If the answer is yes, that means you're not doing a good job.”
Chang predicts Fuse Energy will eventually become bigger than Shell
“I think we could be bigger than Shell.”
Chang: Society can have low-cost, abundant, and low-carbon energy simultaneously
“You can have low cost energy, you can have more energy, and you can have lower carbon energy at the same time.”
Chang: Energy companies claiming 100% renewable tariffs are lying
“So any energy company that's claiming their harm sent renewables is a complete lie. Right. They're simply buying renewable certificates, right, to claim the harm sent renewables, and it's completely false.”
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: Startup throughput is limited by leadership headcount, not focus
“I actually think there are not enough ambitious founders out there, because ultimately the throughput of the company, like how many parallel work streams you can take at a given time is dictated by number of great leaders you have in the company.”
Chang: Superior work ethic and weekend work are required to defeat energy incumbents
“Yeah, I'd say, like, as I said before, like, this is very hard, like, this only way to do it, like, we're going against, you know, big, big, big energy companies with, like, huge balance sheets. You know, billions in revenue. The only way to win is, you know, …”
Chang: An extreme work ethic is required to build a generational company
“There's nothing wrong with wanting work-life balance, but I think the only way to build a generational company is very, very strong work ethic. I just don't see any other way to do it.”
Chang: Fuse Energy grew revenue from £2M to £200M in three years
“We increase our revenue with Tenex every year since inception. First year was two million pounds, second year was 20, and then this year we're gonna end at over 200 pounds.”
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: Fuse hires B candidates but offers them below-market salaries
“Our threshold is we will hire anything above a beat. So if you get straight Bs, you'll still get an offer, but the offer will be much lower, and it could be below what you're making today.”
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: I stop giving feedback to non-improving employees until they leave
“If I, when I realize a person, if I keep giving negative feedback to a person and they haven't improved, then I just stop bothering. Then, you know, they can leave the company.”
Chang honored a $140M oral agreement over a higher term sheet
“It was roughly where we were at a 145. About one 40 actually. And we had an oral agreement with Bolton, we'll take the term sheet. And then, but we haven't signed the term sheet yet. And then later, there was another investor that came, they came and said, I w…”
Chang: Fuse Energy is generating over $400M in annualized revenue
“So the company is doing over four hundred million revenue, annualized revenue,”
Chang predicts Revolut will become a trillion-dollar company
“I think of a trillion dollar company.”
Chang: Department leaders take full blame for failure regardless of excuses
“If you're a leader of an area in the company, Excuses don't matter. If you succeed, you get all the praise. If you fail, you get all the blame. And it does not matter why you fail.”
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.”
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: Fast execution requires small independent units and replacing underperforming teams
“Have small teams yeah, small teams operating in the independent units and give them very clear goals and let them execute. And, you know, what you should do is monitor those teams and if they do well, let them be. If they don't do well, replace the team.”
Chang: Never Settle on Critical Roles, but Settle on Less Impactful Ones
“I think you have to pick your battles for sure. Ultimately, like, you need to identify the most important roles in the company and never settle on those roles. But the roles that matter less, I think it's perfectly ok to settle.”
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2026 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
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2024 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
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| 20VCLEDGER | Co-Founder & CEO, Fuse Energy | 1 | 71 | 60% 6/10 | full record on 20VC → |