Revolut, not?

Revolut, hot. An outsider's operator case for the most underrated company in Europe, and the most underrated founder in it — by Slava Solodkiy, founder of Arival Bank (US charter IFE-065) and sreda.ventures, author of the viral Revolut Mafia research.

On the motto: “It always seems impossible until it's done” is a line the internet hands to Nelson Mandela, though no one has found him saying it. It's left misattributed on purpose — the most Revolut sentence ever written by no one in particular: a slogan that became true only in retrospect.

Hardcover ISBN 9798184250809 · Paperback ISBN 9798184250588 · eBook ASIN B0H6K7FR4K / ISBN 9798235275867 · DOI 10.6084/m9.figshare.32782464.

• Nobody asked for this. Not Storonsky, not anyone at Revolut. Unpaid, uncommissioned, not pre-cleared — that's the price of writing from outside the building.
• Not a shareholder. When the door to an early round was open, the author didn't walk through it. There's no position here to talk up.
• Knows the man a little, the ecosystem a lot. Private material stays private — no screenshots, no family, no politics. That boundary is what lets the rest be honest.
• On the FT: The FT once asked whether Europe could build its first trillion-dollar start-up; this asks the same question in a different mood. Ian Hogarth's essay concerns Europe's tech gap broadly, not Revolut — and nothing here is an endorsement, real or implied.
• On Fly-Posting: Asking whether Revolut is Europe's first trillion-dollar start-up is a footnote to Revolut's own playbook. The premise of this 'book', and of some posters it accompanies:)