Revolut chief in line for Musk-style payday at $150bn valuation

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Revolut’s chief executive Nik Storonsky is in line for a multibillion-dollar windfall if he steers the fintech’s valuation to about $150bn, under a long-standing Elon Musk-style pay package.  Storonsky, who founded the $45bn start-up in … Read more

‘I hate to be politically correct’

In the late 1990s, as rebels overthrew the longtime dictator Mobutu Sese Seko in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, Claudio Descalzi, then a 41-year-old regional manager for Italian oil major Eni, slept under his bed with his children to avoid being shot in the night. “My wife was pregnant. Fortunately she was … Read more