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Nik Storonsky says VCs can be ‘dangerous’, so Revolut’s board has none

Revolut’s Nik Storonsky tells founders to give investors no votes and no board seats. A fight with one investor led him to start QuantumLight, a fund run by machine learning.

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Nik Storonsky says VCs can be ‘dangerous’, so Revolut’s board has none
Image: Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky backstage at Web Summit in Lisbon in 2022.

Revolut chief executive Nik Storonsky has pushed venture capital investors off his company’s board, one funding round at a time. He wants other founders to keep VCs out of the boardroom too, he told David Senra in a podcast interview.

Storonsky compared VCs on boards to football cheerleaders who try…

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