初創企業的長時間工作與高離職率

Nikolay Storonsky prides himself on straight answers. “Ninety-five per cent of founders, they will bullshit you. I’m not going to do it,” says the co-founder and chief executive of Revolut, which offers app-based financial services. The matter-of-fact 33-year-old is talking about work-life balance. He has little time for it.

尼古拉?斯托龍斯基(Nikolay Storonsky)爲自己的直言不諱感到自豪。“95％的創業者都會糊弄你。我不會這麼做，”這位Revolut的聯合創始人兼首席執行官說。該公司提供基於應用程序的金融服務。這位33歲、講實話的創業者說的是工作與生活平衡的問題。他沒有時間來平衡二者。

“I can’t see how work-life balance will help you to build a start-up,” he says. “You are competing with bigger players, with better funded start-ups; you’re competing for customers, you don’t have resources. So how are you going to win this game?”

“我看不出工作與生活的平衡會如何幫助你建立一家初創企業，”他說，“你在與更強大的對手競爭，與資金更雄厚的初創企業競爭; 你正在爭取顧客，你沒有資源。那麼，你靠什麼來贏得這場競賽？”

There is no doubt that he is building one of the UK’s most promising and fast-growing young businesses, with brand recognition to match: all 59 Team GB athletes at the Winter Olympics in South Korea have been given pre-paid Revolut Visa cards.

毫無疑問，他正在打造的是英國最有前途、且增長最快的初創企業之一，其品牌知名度也非常高：韓國冬奧會英國代表團的59名運動員全部獲贈Revolut Visa預付卡。

Over the past three years, and with the backing of Balderton Capital and Index Ventures, two European venture capital firms, Mr Storonsky’s company has raised about ￡60m and had a valuation of ￡300m last year.

在過去三年裏，在兩家歐洲風險投資公司巴爾德頓資本(Balderton Capital)和指數創投(Index Ventures)的支持下，斯托龍斯基的公司獲得了約6000萬英鎊的融資，去年的估值達到3億英鎊。

Fast growth brings problems. Revolut is grappling with the difficulties of finding and retaining the right staff, as it transforms itself from a tiny, scrappy business into one with hundreds of employees: from a “baby” to a “mature young person”, as Mr Storonsky puts it. It is taking time.

快速增長帶來了問題。Revolut正在盡力克服尋找並留住合適員工方面的困難，因爲公司正在從一個規模小、業務零散的公司轉變成一家擁有數百名員工的企業，用斯托龍斯基的話說：正從一個“小寶寶”長成一個“成熟的年輕人”。這需要時間。