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Revolut CEO says you can't out-compete people who work 9 to 9, six days a week.
@chameleon_jeff said the same thing in 2023. He was building his trading system 5am-10pm, 7 days a week, for months. Then he built Hyperliquid.
I was just in Singapore and around Asia, and I can totally back this up. It's not even about the hours, it's the attitude and motivation. People there are hungry. Coming back to Europe, the contrast is huge.
When the people who actually built these companies all say it, it's hard to argue with.
Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky: “The US is not that competitive. Europe is even less competitive.”
“China is competitive.”
“China is 9/9/6. Even if you are good in Europe, or in the US, how can you out-compete the people who work 9:00 to 9:00, six days a week?”
“I started in a co-working space with 140 companies. Within 5 years, only 3 companies survived. They all worked on the weekends.”
“Within 10 years, only 2 companies survived out of 140.”
“Working weekends is a must if you want to survive. Purely statistically.”
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"Everywhere we want to go, we want to dominate. Otherwise what's the point?"
Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky tells @TomMackenzieTV the digital bank's offering will be "at par with Amex or JPMorgan Chase," and add products those card giants don't have bloom.bg/46r3dRt
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Classy, class.
@emirates : My favorite airline. Just keep your feet off the darn thingie.
Dubai: No matter what, will be my favorite city.
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“Building in public” and “legibility to capital markets” are both directly in opposition to building a good company, and result in a worse startup. Your strategy and unique insights are your main weapons, especially in the age of ai, and sharing them openly with the world is how you lose and become one of many companies, rather than something special. This is why quant firms are so secretive. Anyone pushing you to share your strategy or unique insights with the entire world has incentives other than your company’s growth in mind.
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Grok Imagine 1.5 is now on Higgsfield.
It debuted number one on the Artificial Analysis Image-to-Video leaderboard at 1404 Elo.
Preserves detail and lighting fidelity from the input frame. Measurable gains in cloth dynamics, water simulation, hair motion, and glass rendering.
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You can build an entire company without leaving Claude + Higgsfield MCP.
Brand identity, app screens built for downloads, motion videos that drive revenue, founder vision in one post.
Built-in marketing skills generate ads, Virality Predictor finds winners.
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Major life hack: Don't complain, ever. Nobody likes a complainer. They drain the energy of everyone around them. It's exhausting spending time around someone who constantly complains about things outside their control. If it’s within your control, go do something about it. If it’s not, you’re just wasting energy thinking about it. Complaining gives too much power to the thing. Take back that power.
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2015: Revolut - starts building super app
2015 - 2020: Commentators -"you should focus on just one thing, like your competitors"
2021... annual results...
2021: Competitors: we've decided to build a super app
Lesson: ignore the noise and follow the courage of your convictions
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Okay guys, had a few cultural shocks in Spain:
> Go to the gym, opens 10am on a Sunday
> Go to work from a coworking, closed
> Go to a coffee shop, no wifi
Absolutely unthinkable in a barely productive economy like the US, yet alone UAE.
Europe is a daylight museum.
