What’s the difference between success and failure for the founders of early-stage businesses? The founder of unicorn fintech company Revolut believes one vital ingredient often gets overlooked: too often, warns Nik Storonsky, companies in scale-up mode struggle with a process that gets the best possible performance out of their growing workforces. His new book therefore seeks to deal with exactly that challenge.

The Revolut CEO is also a co-founder of venture capital investor QuantumLight, with whom he has teamed up to publish Driving High Performance: A Founder's Guide to Cultivating Top Talent at Scale. The idea, Storonsky explains was to publish a playbook for the firms in which QuantumLight invests – as well as for other scale-ups wondering how to build and maintain high-performance teams. READ MORE