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20VC: $0-$260M in Revenue in Three Years: How We Did It | You Need to Work Weekends to Win — Most Founders Aren't Ambitious Enough | The Revolut Playbook: Speed, Urgency, Extreme Ownership, and Zero Excuses with Alan Chang @ Fuse Energy
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman.
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I have interviewed 1,000 entrepreneurs over 10 years. Nik Storonsky and our guest today are the two best that I have interviewed.
Joining the show today; Alan Chang, Co-Founder and CEO of Fuse Energy. Alan has scaled Fuse Energy from $2M in revenue in the first year, to $20M the second year to now $400M in the third year. Like Netflix beat incumbents to own media, Revolut beat incumbents to own banking, Fuse will beat incumbents to own energy. Prior to founding Fuse, Alan was one of the first three hires at Revolut where he played a crucial role alongside Nik (Founder) in scaling the company to over $75BN valuation.
AGENDA:
— The interview process that led to the $150M pay packet
— The moment I knew Revolut was going to be a $TRN company
— How Revolut drove speed and urgency in their teams
— Biggest lesson from Nik Storonsky @ Revolut
— If you want to build a generational company, you cannot have work-life balance
— What I disagreed with Nik @ Revolut on most
— Is Nik right that Revolut should have got a banking licence earlier?
— The green movement and the idea of "using less" is BS
— Why China is the shining light for regulation to follow
— What Nik at Revolut taught me about ownership and excuses
— The signs of truly top performing people in a team
— We do not have enough ambitious founders — we need to do more, not focus
— You need to work weekends to win
— Every single year we 10x revenue — now at ~$400M
— Why Eastern European engineers are the best
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