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@FuseEnergyHQ @Projectzero2050 ⚡️| @revolutapp 🏦

https://t.co/TxN1W7RCAQ

Joined August 2014

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@alanchanguk

Alan Chang

26 days

Excited to work with @TusharJain_ & @multicoincap team on this. Future of energy must be cheap, affordable & abundant. @projectzero2050 will help accelerate this.

@TusharJain_

Tushar Jain

26 days

0/ Today we are excited to announce that Multicoin has led a new DePIN deal, our first in the energy sector. We are proud to back @alanchanguk , @chrlsorr and the rest of the @FuseEnergyHQ team. We invested $12M bringing their total capital raised to $90M.

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@alanchanguk

Alan Chang

3 years

@ConstanteMx @RevolutApp @anchor_protocol @terra_money Interesting idea... will investigate

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Alan Chang

2 years

@balajis This is wrong… they made a rookie error of interest rate maturity mismatch in liabilities and assets. In interest rate risk management you should always aim to have more or less similar maturity.. this means money from DDA accounts you should invest in short term HQLA

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3 years

Wow this blew up quick... will move fast.

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Alan Chang

3 years

@ConstanteMx @RevolutApp @anchor_protocol @terra_money Interesting idea... will investigate

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Alan Chang

2 years

@alexandr_wang I would go further if people work in these “brand” companies for too long, this means they have accepted mediocrity/bureaucracy as norm. You do not want these people in a start up.

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Alan Chang

3 years

@TheMoonMidas @RevolutApp @LovEcosophy Soon :)

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Alan Chang

3 years

Woah... I’m moving up in the world @ParikPatelCFA

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Alan Chang

3 years

Lots of people congratulating on our latest funding round @RevolutApp . It’s only day 1 for us, I am more bullish than ever we will be the first trillion dollar FS business. Let’s go!!! #dreamteam

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Alan Chang

3 years

Very few U.K./European players embracing crypto. @RevolutApp really are one of the very few embracing this.

@PeterMcCormack

Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️

@PeterMcCormack

3 years

The clampdown on #bitcoin by UK banks is really an infringement on the pathetic amount of freedom we have in the UK. Also, it will drive innovation to more friendly countries. @TomTugendhat , I know you support ETH but the UK should be supporting #bitcoin too. We should talk!

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Alan Chang

4 years

I’m super excited about our 2021 roadmap at @RevolutApp . This will be our most transformational year (yet).

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Alan Chang

3 years

A small milestone with 6 years of hard work

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Alan Chang

1 year

New office! Turns out hot-desking 20 people into a 12 person office is unbearable (not worth saving a few bucks)

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Alan Chang

3 years

@ConstanteMx @anchor_protocol @RevolutApp The team made it happen :)

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Alan Chang

2 years

Some news… now back to work

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Former Revolut big cheese Alan Chang’s Tesseract raises $78m

Tesseract, a renewable energy company founded by two early Revolut employees, has raised a $78m round led by Balderton and Lakestar.

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@alanchanguk

Alan Chang

4 years

Formula for success. Identify biggest problem to solve, solve problem, capture value, repeat.

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Alan Chang

3 years

Thinking about our crypto roadmap for next 12 months... What crypto features would people like to see on @RevolutApp ?

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Alan Chang

9 months

@alexandr_wang For me, the first 21 years of my life was complete waste. Studying for skills that I had no interest in, memorising pointless facts, chasing things that are “good for your CV”. I wish someone guided me to learn to build much earlier.

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@alanchanguk

Alan Chang

3 years

Seeing a lot of European banks banning crypto purchases lately claiming it’s “for customer’s safety”, you can still send fiat from @RevolutApp to exchanges (or better yet you can buy directly in Revolut)

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Alan Chang

1 year

Wow what a day for @get_fuse ! ⚡️

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Alan Chang

5 months

@mahaniok Whenever a VC General Partner is sending someone else on their team to a meeting with the CEO instead of going themselves, here are the thoughts in the CEO’s head: - this non GP don’t have the power to write checks - the GP doesn’t think this meeting is worth their time -

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Alan Chang

1 year

👀👀👀

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Alan Chang

3 years

@WebSummit was my first ever biz trip with @RevolutApp (I was a fresh grad 2 months into the job), it was also the first and last (so far) flight I have ever missed.

@paddycosgrave

Paddy Cosgrave

3 years

In 2015 @RevolutApp had a tiny startup booth at @WebSummit Today they raised $800 million at a $33 billion valuation. Incredible to watch from a far. Congrats to @NStoronsky , @vyatsenko & all the team. See you at @WebSummit in November

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@alanchanguk

Alan Chang

1 year

I'm absolutely thrilled to share some incredibly exciting updates that we've been working hard on at Fuse. We are deeply committed to putting your needs at the forefront of everything we do. Today, I'm delighted to introduce some new features that will make managing your

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@alanchanguk

Alan Chang

3 years

This is something I am personally super excited about. This will kill a lot of predatory payday lending businesses. Flexible pay is the future. Sign up below (UK only now, ROW coming soon).

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@alanchanguk

Alan Chang

7 months

@hbap1924 This is why UK is in decline. You can’t block your way to economic growth.

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Alan Chang

13 days

Why you should join Fuse 2.0 In 1 year and 2 months since launching we have got a lot done. We have built a renewable developer with a 300 MW pipeline of solar, wind, and hydrogen. We have built a prototype alkaline electrolyser with in-house engineering design (TRL 4), we have

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@alanchanguk

Alan Chang

8 months

Small milestone. Now back to work 👷

@FuseEnergyHQ

Fuse

8 months

Fuse Energy is now a profitable company! Plus we are going to 🇺🇸!

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Alan Chang

3 years

Congrats to first batch of @RevolutApp partners!

@TommyTudehope

Tommy Tudehope

3 years

. @RevolutApp on page 5 of today’s @FT .

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Alan Chang

3 years

Quite a headline from @standardnews @RevolutApp

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Alan Chang

5 months

This is such a close minded view. The best people I have worked with in the UK and mostly immigrants. Immigrants leave family/friends to a new country with nothing to seek a better life. It’s an incredible filter for grit.

@NeilDotObrien

Neil O'Brien

5 months

Oh no, firms are having to hire people from the UK, what a tragedy

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@chrishlad

Chris Hladczuk

10 months

Someone dumber and lazier than you is making 10x the money because they are too dumb to doubt themselves.

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Alan Chang

1 year

I still can’t believe 3/5 Mondays in May in U.K. is a holiday… so much productivity lost 🤦‍♂️

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Alan Chang

1 year

Something exciting is coming next week 🤘

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Alan Chang

9 months

We are changing this at @get_fuse . We are building a fully integrated renewable energy co (think renewable shell) from scratch (starting in the UK). Some of the things we are working on: building utility scale solar farms from scratch (electrical/civil engineering), solar

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Paul Graham

9 months

Met a British startup founder today who'd studied engineering at Oxford. He said the majority of his fellow students had since gone into finance or consulting. In effect there is a brain drain *within* the UK, as engineers emigrate to fields where they don't build anything.

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Alan Chang

2 years

One of the most important skill that unlocks your potential is to constantly ask yourself whether you are solving the right problems. Once you master it you will likely 10X yourself.

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Alan Chang

3 years

@rabois Not all people who work crazy hard succeed, but all the successful people I know work crazy hard

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Alan Chang

3 years

Recently stumbled upon this memo from Bear Stearns. This is so true. 100% of successful people I know was at one point PSD. What sets super successful from successful people apart is the former stopped being P but still SD, the latter stops being PD all together.

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Alan Chang

2 years

Well run companies do not lay off staff during downturns

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Alan Chang

7 years

Check out @RevolutApp on the tube tomorrow! ☺️Never get ripped off from fx fees again.

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Alan Chang

8 months

why lowering energy usage is not the solution… energy usage is highly correlated to quality of life, we need cheaper abundant renewable energy

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8 months

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Alan Chang

5 months

Probably nothing

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Alan Chang

1 month

@sam_bidwell The “green” narrative of using less energy is killing the country. We need to produce more, use more, just sustainably.

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Alan Chang

1 year

@get_fuse is now live in the UK ⚡️⚡️⚡️

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Fuse Energy Launches as New UK Supplier With Lowest Electricity Prices

Former Revolut Ltd. employees are launching Britain’s first energy supplier in two years, a sign that a more stable market is helping new companies make inroads in the industry.

www.bloomberg.com

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Alan Chang

3 years

@RishiSunak @RevolutApp We are only getting started.

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Alan Chang

8 months

The best way to get into a top start up (unless you’re an engineer) is via customer service. It’s quite unbelievable so many fresh graduates are unwilling to do this, and think this is beneath them.

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Alan Chang

3 months

@s8mb Hong Kong’s (similar population to London) Equivalent MTR makes 14% net profit margin, where fares are much cheaper, higher reliability, cleaner than the London tube system.

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Alan Chang

11 months

At @get_fuse , we deeply care about customer experience. Every non 4/5 star rating we do root cause analysis, and go line by line weekly by the product/engineering/ops team. Our trust pilot score is 4.6/5 so far, we will not stop until it’s 5/5.

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Alan Chang

8 years

Great to see 1% adoption on @RevolutApp Premium in just 1.5 weeks! Many more Premium features to come in next few weeks. Next target - 10%.

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Alan Chang

23 days

@maxtempers It should be 100X higher

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Alan Chang

3 years

If you’re a @N26US customer, sign up to @revolutapp_us for a better product 😉

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Alan Chang

2 months

@ownsomeshares @FT Fuck the FT

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Alan Chang

3 years

Woah

@APompliano

Anthony Pompliano 🌪

3 years

I’m giving away $100 to 500 people today 🎉 Comment how you got started with BTC and my friends at @Revolutapp will be giving away $100 to the best responses. In order to win, reply with your Revolut @username and #Benjamins2Bitcoin T&C:

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Alan Chang

1 year

Simple chart to explain why renewables is the future (without subsidies).

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Alan Chang

2 years

If we are successful in renewable energy transition… not only we will stop climate change.. but energy will be priced like water

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Alan Chang

2 years

@maxkarpis @FT This is hilarious

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Alan Chang

4 months

It’s quite simple. Anything more than the risk free rate (basically What you get from T bills) is not risk free. If a “defi protocol” is offering you “40% risk free”, think twice

@Mister_Ch0c

MisterCh0c

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This guy's portfolio went from $3.5 million to $3.5k F $hex

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Alan Chang

3 years

What most people don’t realise is tech companies are all about the people. At the end of the day it’s just a group of people building to the same goals.

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Alan Chang

2 years

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Alan Chang

4 years

Hmmm... should I consider 🤔 @Glassdoor

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Alan Chang

3 years

If Revolut made mints

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Alan Chang

3 years

Being a start up shareholder is the ultimate 💎🙌

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Alan Chang

3 years

Also User projections were more than 10X off.

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@maxkarpis

Max Karpis

3 years

#Revolut 's 1st pitch deck (pre-Serie A of 2016) "We need £1.5m to make it happen." Most of the rev to come from subs. Profitable in y.3. Pitch decks mean nothing, teams' ability to adapt and execute - everything. @NStoronsky @vyatsenko @RevolutApp

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Alan Chang

3 years

What a waste of brains and capital.

@Amy_EOBrien

Amy O'Brien

3 years

Remember the last time you needed to send £1m abroad? Me neither, but I’m informed it’s an issue Europe’s tech workers encounter 👀 These two OG Robinhood employees want to make it easier, with a fixed flat fee money transfer app - out of stealth today

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Alan Chang

3 years

HUGE

@RevolutBusiness

Revolut Business

@RevolutBusiness

3 years

Introducing FX Forwards, our currency forward contracts! A world-first for FinTech apps, our FX Forwards feature lets businesses of any size get a fixed foreign exchange (FX) rate for a set amount and date in the future to manage your cash flow now.

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Alan Chang

4 years

Just got my wen lambo 🏎 @RevolutApp card. Looks dope.

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Alan Chang

4 years

The best training I ever received: when I was young whenever I tell my dad about an achievement he would tell me “only be happy for 5 minutes.” I resented him for this repetitive message for all my childhood. At @RevolutApp we now call it #neversettle

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Alan Chang

7 months

@MartinSLewis As a general rule of thumb, roles with more responsibility you would want to pay higher comp to attract the best talent. By definition, MPs have higher responsibility than private sector equivalent role e.g. CEO of a regional bank. We should therefore pay our civil servants

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Alan Chang

3 years

I see lots of people don’t appreciate the power of compounding in career building. It’s very tempting to switch companies to the next best offer, but every time you do that you will loose the compounding you’ve built. True career success is built in a decade.

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Alan Chang

2 years

It now really annoys me people who know nothing about banking tweeting crap advice and analysis

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Alan Chang

3 years

Recharging 1 year worth of vitamin D

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Alan Chang

4 years

@nonmayorpete The challenge is to get unbiased honest interviews are difficult, almost all the time founders/employees do interviews with objective of promoting the company. Maybe you will get a less biased interview from early employees that have long left the company.

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Alan Chang

3 years

Building a start up is the ultimate HODL. Often it takes ~10 years to exit. I wonder what would happen to crypto market if there was less liquidity?

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Alan Chang

2 years

Suddenly everyone on Twitter is now a banking expert? 🤔

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Alan Chang

2 years

People say it’s crypto winter, but I still see shtty crypto projects market cap >> 2022 peak valuations of high quality companies

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@alanchanguk

Alan Chang

6 months

This is the wrong way to look at it… cheap and abundant energy is the goal. Lowering carbon emissions comes for free.

@Rod__Mason

Rod Mason

6 months

So why do we have to bankrupt ourselves trying to ‘lead the world’ in getting to #NetZero the fastest?

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Alan Chang

7 months

I think there is a strong negative correlation between how competent a company is vs how many critical business processes are done on excel. One of the things that convinced me to start an energy company is after I found out how common VBA was used as databases at incumbents.

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@alanchanguk

Alan Chang

3 years

How to blitzscale high growth tech co: 1/ Write down company goals 2/ Define key skill sets you need to acquire to achieve goals 3/ Ruthlessly Prioritise hiring based on impact 4/ Hire generalist Biz Ops to fill in the gaps in the meantime

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Alan Chang

2 years

Genuinely curious why most MBAs think they can do “strategy” or “product” with 0/limited actual experience in either.

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Alan Chang

2 years

These “banking experts” are now back to Generative AI experts

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Alan Chang

3 years

Yesssssssss!!!!!!!

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@alanchanguk

Alan Chang

2 years

I’ve been through several background checks and the experience is complete garbage. The screening analyst keep asking me who my current manager is… and keep asking me contact of my former manager (no way in hell I’m giving that away lol). I hope someone is disrupting this space

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Alan Chang

1 year

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Building the first renewable giant

5 years ago I wrote this blog with the goal to build the most talent dense operations team at Revolut. Since then ex-Revolut founders have raised $200M+, many of them I personally hired into Revolut...

www.linkedin.com

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Alan Chang

2 years

@ownsomeshares @FT @RevolutApp makes me angry FT cherry pick data to fit their agenda

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Alan Chang

1 month

Why is everyone now talking about founder mode like it’s something ground breaking?

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Alan Chang

1 year

We’re looking for finance lead that can take on financial controls/tax/FPA. You do not need to know all 3 but you must be super hungry to master it.

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Alan Chang

3 years

6 years into start up and it still blows my mind how much people care about titles. It’s probably the 2nd (sometimes 3rd) most important recruitment/motivational tool after compensation

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Alan Chang

2 years

This weekend is a great reminder… Why does monarchy still exist?

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Alan Chang

3 months

@CryptoAnglio UK has many problems, but you cannot pin this on the UK. This is more about that firms AML policy which they have discretion whether they accept crypto as source of funds. You will the same problem in other countries. Just tell your friend to try a different firm, or escalate to

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Alan Chang

4 years

Coming soon ;)

@ChadWestTweets

Chad West

@ChadWestTweets

4 years

So... pet insurance is crazy expensive. Disruption needed!

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Alan Chang

3 years

Any management team that hires McKinsey should be fired… or their bonus should be reduced in proportion to McKinsey fees

@litcapital

litquidity

3 years

McKinsey delivering their presentation to Peloton after being paid millions to help them evaluate their cost structure

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Alan Chang

3 years

I’m already some super creative designs from Revolut employees. Can’t wait to see what our customers will create with this 😃

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Alan Chang

7 years

@RevolutApp is hiring country managers (EU/US/AP) and ops to join the fastest growing Bank Challenger in Europe.

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Alan Chang

1 year

Cheap and stable prices of water allow us to enjoy steak and hamburgers at cheap prices. In a world where we are fully renewable we will live in energy abundance & cheap energy - in fact I believe it will price similar to water. I believe there will be more new use cases of

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Alan Chang

2 years

@ownsomeshares @angelaeagle She is probably in bed with incumbents

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Alan Chang

3 years

@kaarmann Do you ever recommend @RevolutApp ?

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Alan Chang

3 years

Scaling a fast growth company is 80% hiring, and yet for some reason this is a skill mastered by very few

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Alan Chang

3 years

@Wise @monzo @Wise + @monzo = @RevolutApp - coinbase - robinhood

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Alan Chang

3 months

@GergelyOrosz A few things to address. 1) All card issuers make revenue on interchange (Revolut included 2) Revolut has very diversified revenues (with more product lines than banks e.g. subscriptions, crypto etc) 3) Revolut already has sustainable business model without raising fees.

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@alanchanguk

Alan Chang

3 years

Huge!! Congrats man @MerschMax_

@CoinDesk

CoinDesk

3 years

NEW: @fabric_vc has raised a $120 million fund for investing in crypto startups. The notable thing, however, is one of its backers. @IanAllison123 reports

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