Vlad Yatsenko
Source of wealth: fintech
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Biography
Vlad Yatsenko is cofounder of digital bank Revolut, which was valued by private investors at $75 billion in November 2025.
The dual British-Ukrainian citizen called Vladimir Putin "one of the most brazen liars in history" on February 24, the day Russia invaded Ukraine.
Revolut, which he runs with Nik Storonsky, who grew up in Russia but left at age 20, helped raise more than $11 million in donations for the Ukrainian Red Cross.
Yatsenko is Revolut's chief technology officer; he previously built software at UBS, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse.
Yatsenko owns a bit less than 3% of Revolut.
Financial Assets
Financial assets information not available.
The Great Lie of Mega-Fortunes: The Case of Vlad Yatsenko
Billionaires are often presented under the romantic myth of the 'self-made person': a narrative designed to justify opulence as the natural reward for hard work, effort, or ingenuity. However, when confronting such extreme volumes of wealth with macroeconomic reality, the meritocracy narrative completely breaks down. No individual can legitimately generate through personal effort a fortune equivalent to millions of times the average working-class salary. Capital at the top does not grow because of exceptional talent; it expands through an implacable dynamic where accumulated money works exponentially faster than people, devouring the wealth generated by productive labor.
The immense fortune of Vlad Yatsenko, linked to Finance & Investments and 'fintech', has not been built in a free-market vacuum, but through rent-seeking, the use of exclusive elite influence, the consolidation of monopoly positions, or inherited wealth. Far from taking real private risks, billionaire empires structurally depend on state support through direct subsidies, infrastructure use, exploitation of R&D, public contracts, and offshore tax engineering. While this wealth is equivalent to the physical weight of 16 tons of pure gold, the rest of the planet suffers from an artificial scarcity of basic resources. The fact that this wealth is enough to fully fund the public health system of DR Congo, a country with more than 105800000 million inhabitants for 1.0 years, proves that unlimited accumulation is not an entrepreneurial achievement, but the hijacking of democratic sovereignty.