How Revolut's Metric Obsession Accidentally Built a Founder Factory (46+ Alumni Startups)
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He bought Amazon gift cards out of his own pocket to hit his KPIs. That's what metric obsession looks like at Revolut.
Pierre Cahuzac is a product leader at Europe's most valuable fintech—and explains why their alumni start companies at ridiculous rates. It's not the dashboards. It's the ownership model.
You'll walk away with Revolut's framework for organizing teams around metrics instead of code, the P50 vs P10 methodology for identifying human vs machine performance gaps, and why artificial deadlines create throwaway work.
Six years at Revolut. Multiple product rescues. One core insight: when you own KPIs instead of features, you start thinking like a founder.
Pierre breaks down the "minimum path to value" framework, how to push back on impossible targets from executives, and why their country expansion machine beats custom local builds.
Plus: the real reason Revolut produces so many entrepreneur alumni, and what "onion layer thinking" means for cross-functional leadership.
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⏱ Episode Chapters
(00:00) From film director to Revolut: The unconventional path(06:14) Why film financing was too slow for innovation(10:27) How Revolut’s metric obsession works in practice(15:08) Building products with global vision, local execution(17:49) When ambitious targets almost broke the team(26:00) The Revolut Mafia: Alumni and entrepreneurship(29:07) Patterns in fintech founders(31:33) Future predictions and final thoughts
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