and there it is... 2 million customers (screen grab was 5 mins before midnight): 4 years to the day of their first ever tweet and public outing, 2 years 1 month after getting the banking license, 8 months after achieving the first 1 million... team
@monzo
take a bow 👏
so lucky & grateful for having (now co-parenting) 5 children 🥰 but along the way I’ve also had 2 terminations, 2 miscarriages, 2 rounds of unsuccessful IVF as well... the world needs more investment & talent in female reproductive health, if you know of ppl pls send my way 🙏👏
courtesy of Reddit (r/CasualUK u/ItsJayB) and as seen here on Rightmove, a studio apartment (NW9) so small the entry isn’t even a door it’s a window (£750 pcm) 🤔
I had an abortion in California in 2005 and was proud to volunteer at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Mountain View in the years after. I am sad, angry and heartbroken for all the Americans losing the basic rights of safety, healthcare access and bodily autonomy that I had 💔
higher value to noise ratio (tbh zero noise) than any podcast/video all year, it's a must-listen/watch
recording here:
slides here:
as almost always the case, the real tldr's and gems are in the Q&A w/
@jefffluhr
@DavidSacks
Yesterday we met with all of our portfolio company founders to discuss the current downturn, what caused it, and how to survive it. We’ve decided to make the recording public. You can watch it here:
Literally watching a massive map of the USA and all the people signing to Monzo!! A huge amount of work, so proud to have played a small part in an epic team of people that have helped made this happen ❤️
#monzo
as someone who worked through pregnancy loss (4x), add yet another item to the list of why I'm so incredibly proud to be a
@monzo
customer, investor and shareholder 🧡
Pregnancy loss is a traumatic event that has a huge impact on your physical and mental wellbeing. You shouldn't have to worry about your job on top of that.
So we've introduced paid leave for Monzo staff and their partners affected by a miscarriage, stillbirth or abortion ♥️
#GretaThurnberg
has got 28 days to get from California to a UN climate summit in Madrid. The teenage activist is asking for ideas on how she can complete the journey in time without taking to the skies. Send us your thoughts
#BBCTheBriefing
and I'll see you at 05:00 GMT
as a lifelong introvert who over many years (decades!) learned to force myself to socialise for work (small talk & networking), 15 mos of wfh/virtual mtgs has been so indulgent... in my first f2f mtgs since lockdown, I'm as anxious as a new college/uni grad trying to fit in😬🤓
Q: “Where do you come from?”
Me: “I came from London”
Q: “You live in London?”
Me: “Yes”
Q: “You were born there?”
Me: “No, I was born in America”
Q (confused expression): “But your face...?”
😆💁🏻♀️
coming out of lockdown and I'm sorry to everyone IRL that my small talk has gone to shit
tbh it was never strong (I'm an introvert who hates networking and small talk in best of times) but oh boy it's really poor now. prob my subconscious sabotaging attendance of IRL events😂
end of an era…ie mine as HM Treasury Special Envoy for Fintech after nearly eight years, seven Chancellors of the Exchequer and six Economic Secretaries to the Treasury
long may London/UK retain its crown as the best place in the world for fintech. it was a pleasure to serve
1/4: hard to condense in a tweet (or 4!) but sending my most heartfelt thanks 💙🙏 to
@gerardgrech
& the whole
@TechNation
team for the amazing privilege of representing their outstanding work for & impact on the UK’s tech sector these last 4.5y 🙌
"
@Monzo
Bank &
@StarlingBank
continue to lead the charge for the digital challenger banks w/ both seeing more net new switchers in just 12 mos than Tesco Bank has managed in 4 yrs." 😮 src: 255k ppl ditch their bank accounts
super excited to join
@dixonscarphone
board: 42k employees in 8 countries and YoY growth in all of its markets => Europe's
#1
specialist electrical & telecoms retailer and services company (and Amazon price match!) 💪 thanks for the opportunity
@Lord_Livingston
Alex Baldock et al
We’re pleased to welcome Eileen Burbidge MBE (
@eileentso
) to Dixons Carphone. Eileen will be joining the business as an independent Non-Executive Director of the Board and a member of the audit committee with effect from 1 January 2019. Find out more here…
stupid question alert (back to school week): why are skirts/dresses part of younger school girls' (nursery or primary) uniforms? surely trousers are more comfortable, enable greater movement for walking about, breaks/playground, and just less for girls to be self-conscious about?
pretty sure he wouldn’t have it any other way but even with the v occasional PR/media mention
@hirokitakeuchi
is w/o a doubt one of the most under-rated founders I know (such privilege to have worked w/him and
@GoCardless
all these years) 🙌
Boris Johnson is to announce the return of imperial weights and measures, making it legal for market stalls, shops and supermarkets to sell their goods using only Britain’s traditional weighing system post-Brexit
with
@monzo
~1 day away (or less) from hitting 2,000,000 customers, it was exactly 4y ago to the hour that I posted my first ever tweet about it... prompting the company’s own first public tweet 6 mins later (don’t worry I had permission!) 😉
5️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ customers (as of 15:42 today) 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 well done & thank you to every Monzonaut current and who has come before 🙇🏻♀️ and just as many thanks to each and every single one of the 5 million customers for helping them build a better bank that we all wanted to use ❤️
“The trend line is clear. There’s never been a better time to start a company & raise early stage VC in Europe... London is still the best place... (Its) ecosystem continues to outpace other Euro cities even in light of Brexit” by
@Sam__Cash
via
@seikatsu
in absolute awe of
@MarcusRashford
‘s efforts, commitment and impact 👏 if you haven’t checked his TL today you must do... such mad respect to him and thinking of all the children who will benefit from his voice and conviction 📣🖤👑
not all vc’s...
@passioncapital
never asks for legal fees to be reimbursed (no cap on that either) and has never asked for board meetings travel. furthermore we’ll pay for company’s EMI scheme (ESOP) if one isn’t already in place 🤝
@JimMFelton
…or what he’s up to this weekend as if the man might jet off to a ski chalet… when in actual fact he is preoccupied by looking for a place to sleep (also he asks if he’s been there before as if it’s a restaurant of choice) 😔
10y ago accepting an award obo
@brokep
@bonq
@Flattr
from
@mikebutcher
#theeuropas
w/3mo old Winston in tow🤱🏻appreciate all the support over the years as a working mum 🙏
our LDN tech fam has never made me feel “bad” for bringing a baby to feed or any reason 🧡
📷
@rougefrog
enquiry received from a diligent journalist attached... answer for any other journalist/media queries = Q1: “no”; answer to Q2 (if I had been invited): “hell no”
#fuckthatshit
1/2: what do you say to a founder who, along w/their co-founders, you’ve backed 2x = the value drivers of successive funds?
thank you 🙏 it’s been a privilege (again); well done on creating a truly better kind of bank 🏦
...and hope to have the privilege to back you 3x 🙋🏻♀️
I just finished my last all-hands and Q&A with the
@monzo
team. So many great memories and awesome team-mates.
It's been a blast. I'm looking forward to some extended relaxation before the next thing 😎
Thanks for the chat,
@sohear
. Always a pleasure.
finding this (and so many of the replies) infuriating... fascination with trucks is not hard wired, toddler girls are also fascinated by machinery but guess how often parents notice/comment on it vs the boys... and all the other nudges (and who gets what toys for birthdays)
Seeing my son’s instant fascination with large trucks and construction vehicles almost from birth has changed my mind: there’s no way this is socially conditioned. Some things are hardwired into the genes
Seeing
@10DowningStreet
showing “support” for Ukraine with a facade of lights in Ukrainian flag colours - while the government simultaneously suspends visa applications for Ukrainians fleeing the war - is truly sickening. The sheer, brazen, absolute hypocrisy.
UK fintech leading the way (creating the template) as per
@nytimes
"But fast-growing online banks in Britain like
@Monzo
and
@RevolutApp
are providing a template for American start-ups..." via
@satyap
“results were described as jaw-dropping”; congrats
@DeepMind_Health
@Moorfields
re AI + computer vision for detecting eye disease, src:
@BBCNews
- Artificial intelligence 'did not miss a single urgent case'
haven’t tweeted much about covid-19 (be safe 🙏) but I have a really stupid Q re current UK policy: self-isolate for 7d if any symptoms, don’t call 111, don’t get tested... isn’t this just going to artificially deflate and grossly underestimate # of new cases reported daily?
#wtf
2148 here in London and I’ve had such anxiety for weeks that I’m in deep denial that we’re finally here now... and so I have no plans nor coping strategies for the next 8-48h, which means I’ll prob just not sleep at all and doom scroll Twitter for 48h straight
#fml
☀️ English people yesterday: I can’t believe it’s 35 degrees, far too hot, how am I going to sleep tonight?
also English people: Can you pop the kettle on, please? ☕️
started reading
@TechNation
’s Upscale by James Silver over the break and chapter 1 with
@gregmarsh
is *so* good... already sending pics of the pages to founders 😉🤓👌📖
#upscalebook
Our competitors don't normally ask us for advice, but when an airline leader reached out, we couldn't ignore it.
Naturally, there was only one way to respond: CEO to CEO.
couple of ppl have now sent me this tweet... recalling that 4y ago I quote-tweeted similar and also called out the embarrassment of “eye candy” use/recruitment/placement... which resulted in my being blacklisted and blanked for last 4y (thanks to those who remember)😉💛
“...the difference of course is that Matthew is white... (and he is actually from somewhere else)...”
@Sathnam
breaks this infuriatingly should-be-dead-obvious topic down with such calm (area of development for me!)
every once in a while you meet ppl and hope “one day I *will* work with this person!” almost 4y to the day after first meeting
@Geek_Manager
I am ecstatic to finally welcome her into the
@passioncapital
family! 🤗
Hugely excited to share that I am joining
@Monzo
as CTO, with
@jonas
taking up a broader exec leadership role.
I’m so delighted that I’ll get to work with him and lead this amazing team in such an exciting company 💪🏽🎉
imho fintech far from being “done”... we’ve had the first wave which has been mostly B2C, yet to see the B2B wave which will yield even greater enterprise value
not really splits or stats that are worthy of the gram 🤩... except that I’m marking my 49th 🙈 and starting my 50th year... with a 50th straight day of running 5km/day (plus a few 10km and 15km jogs chucked in on…
@AbsMcFabs
Hi Abigail, trans women are women (and trans men are men). We support the right of our trans colleagues to self-identify and don't agree that this is incompatible with our commitment to having a diverse and representative team.
11 months for the first 1 million
8 months for its 2nd million
4 months for its 3rd million 👀
at this rate (conservatively speaking since their growth rate continues to accelerate),
@monzo
should have 5 million UK current accounts sometime in 1H 2020
such an achievement considering Lloyds/others offer £125 bonuses to switch plus "those who switched [via CASS] are far likelier to be using it as their main bank account, paying in their salary and paying out direct debits..."
@monzo
🙌 by
@George_Nixon97