Tom Blomfield @t_blom Twitter profile

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@t_blom

5 years

Hey @AskHalifaxBank 👋 It's great to see your updated brand identity, but it looks like you forgot to update couple of things. The card in the photo still displays the @monzo BIN (5355 22) and the name of one of our staff members... 😉

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People used say "no-one switches to a new bank". That stopped when @monzo hit a million customers Next came "but no-one's putting their salary in." In 2018, we've gone from 10% to almost 30% salaried accounts 🚀 In 2019 our focus is revenue growth to build a sustainable company

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To make an investment in a German startup, I've had to use a notary to sign power of attorney, then send it to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to be apostilled. Then wait 3-4 weeks. Germany appears not to be a country that values investment in its startup ecosystem.

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I’ve noticed a pattern with some AI startups that are producing flashy demos with very low customer engagement. They are usually solving occasional problems. An example is “use natural language to query a database”. Most employees at a tech company don’t actually write SQL…

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Here's an idea I wish someone would build: Mixpanel-style analytics for customer unit economics. At @monzo , we had an event-driven data architecture that allowed us to assign cost or revenue to every action a customer might take. Spend £120 on a debit card in NYC? £2 of…

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Before I was 30 years old, I’d started 2 companies that are each now worth over a billion dollars. And it almost broke me. Here’s my story.

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One of the bravest and most disciplined companies I’ve worked with sent investor updates every month with “$0 revenue” at the very top. They sent it consistently every month for more than an year and never made excuses. They said “this isn’t good enough and here’s what we’re…

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Parliament now agrees that: It doesn't want the deal It doesn't want no deal It doesn't want a second referendum I'm genuinely confused. What's left? 🤔

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6 years

At 8:08pm last night we declared a security incident @monzo regarding the @British_Airways breach. 11:07pm, we'd ordered 1300 replacement debit cards for customers who'd spent money with British Airways between August 21 and September 5 this year.

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3 years

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.

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@sohear

3 years

The president has left the Monzo House. Thanks for the chat @t_blom , glad you're doing better.

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6 years

Every episode of Silicon Valley feels like a deeply uncomfortable parody of my startup life.

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5 years

Interesting comparison: @RevolutApp has 7m users and 1.1m daily actives. 16% @monzo has 3m users and 1.7m daily actives. 57%

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@t_blom

1 year

Not sure why I'm not having much luck dating at the moment 🤷‍♂️

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@t_blom

5 years

We will welcome 32 new joiners to @monzo this Monday. Last year on this day, there were 189 Monzonauts. We now have 654, 35% of whom work remotely 🚀 Interested in joining?

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@t_blom

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The best founders can describe in detail what they’ve built today and then clearly envision how it becomes a really big business in 10 years’ time. It’s essential to hold this micro and macro view in your head at the same time and communicate both very clearly. People mess up…

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I'm so annoyed by the parasitic "tech communities" in San Francisco that invite founders to join for "mentorship and advice". You sign a legal agreement, but they don't have any obligation to invest in you up front. Instead, if you do eventually get investment from a high-signal…

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Request for startups: I’d like an interactive voice based AI assistant that will help me go through my emails and calendar in the 20 minute drive to work. It should draft emails based on minimal voice input and reschedule appointments that I want to move.

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@t_blom

10 months

I’ve never used a pitch deck to fundraise. Instead, I kicked off every raise by staring unblinkingly at the investor's right eye. They always blink first. Here's why I think founders should use weird psychological games when fundraising 🧵

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@t_blom

5 years

If this banking thing doesn't work out, I'm going to become a potter.

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@t_blom

6 months

One of the best parts of the YC job is telephoning founders to tell them they've been accepted. The sheer excitement and emotion is inspiring.

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@t_blom

5 years

I'm so proud of this ❤️ @firstdirect 's service has long been a source of inspiration at @monzo . To pip them for top place by 1% in our first year offering current accounts is an amazing honour.

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@WhichMoney

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. @monzo became a Which? Recommended Provider in our latest banking survey, with the highest consumer score of any UK bank. ⟶

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When YC applicants write about why they’re not moving to SF to run their startup, it’s always because they firmly believe the strategically optimal place to base their company is the *exact* place they currently live. This must just be a coincidence.

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@t_blom

5 years

Using @monzo on the NYC subway!

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@t_blom

3 years

These countries should check out Docusign.

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2 years

How Monzo grew to 1 million customers with ~zero marketing budget

Monzo growth

I've been asked a few times recently how we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years and I haven't been able to give a satisfactory answer in a sufficiently short space of time. I...

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7 years

After 18 years, I'm finally leaving Natwest. It's been emotional. 🚀💳 @monzo

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@t_blom

3 years

A great day spent vaccinating people at the ExCel centre with @stjohnambulance

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5 years

Some killer stats in this @YouGov article. 2% of Brits already have a @monzo account, despite only 11% of the nation having heard of the company. Net satisfaction score of +89 beats every other bank tracked in BrandIndex by YouGov.

Should traditional banks be scared of Monzo? | YouGov

As the digital-only bank Monzo prepares to launch its first major advertising campaign, should more established lenders be concerned about losing market share?

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@t_blom

6 years

I love it when @monzo customers write us nice letters 💌

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6 years

Net Promoter Score just hit +80 at @monzo . Average across UK banks last year was +4

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@t_blom

4 years

The new @monzo Premium launches today!

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@t_blom

3 months

This batch, we decided we should start cooking @ycombinator dinners again 👨‍🍳 With @koomen @bosmeny and @mwseibel hosting a @parkerconrad talk.

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3 years

So many companies I work with have asked me about fundraising (Seed/Series A) that I've written it up into a guide. It's still in draft, but I'd love any comments or suggestions. I'll probably publish it as a blog post in a week or two

Raising Investment

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@t_blom

6 years

For the second year in a row, @monzo is 1st in LinkedIn's list of best startups to work for in Britain. Check out our jobs page! 😉

Careers at Monzo

Monzo are building a smart bank on your smartphone and we need your help to create the bank of the future.

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3 years

I have been trying to cancel my subscription to @TheEconomist for the last year, but they make you phone to cancel, and the lines are extremely understaffed 😡 If you can sign up without talking to someone, you should be able to cancel the same way. Not cool.

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1 year

Generative AI seems to be following a similar hype-cycle to crypto. The difference is that normal people are already using AI to do actual work with impressive results. I worked in fintech for 10 years and I don't know a single person who used crypto for anything real.

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6 years

@guardian Highly-skilled European workers.

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@t_blom

3 years

The on-demand grocery market feels a bit like Uber Vs Lyft, or the scooter wars of 2019. Lots of VC cash subsidising my privileged urban lifestyle 🤷‍♂️ I got my order in 9 minutes today, which felt almost too fast. Sub 1hr would have been fine.

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5 years

Britain has been a democracy that countries around the world have admired for centuries. After watching the Commons debates over the last few weeks, I'm no longer sure that's the case 😞

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5 years

The only thing separating our current government from House of Cards is Dominic Cummings pushing John Bercow in front of a Northern Line train.

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2 years

This is why we have financial regulation.

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@t_blom

6 years

Last year, Google made £5.7bn revenue in the UK. Globally, its net profit margins were around 20%, or around £1.15bn in the UK. Corporation tax is 19%, so Google should have paid £218m in tax. Instead, it paid just £49m. How? By routing sales through an Irish subsidiary.

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2 years

I've recently seen two pre-revenue startups in Germany spend €100k on (re-)incorporation, legal and accounting fees It feels like Germany is a country that hates its startup ecosystem.

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1 year

@nickrw I honestly don't know why anyone is still working at that circus. The ringmaster has gone mad.

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5 years

In 1780s Britain, the electorate in England and Wales consisted of just 214,000 male landowners. In Britain in 2019, just 150,000 Tory party members, with an average age of 57, will decide our next Prime Minister. This is our democracy.

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11 months

I'm so proud of the entire @monzo team - @TSMonzo , @skaladeen , @jonas and everyone else who worked so hard to make this happen. Massive congratulations, folks 🎉

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@t_blom

14 days

I’m really looking forward to visiting the UK in a couple of weeks!

Y Combinator

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YC is coming to the UK! We’ll be visiting London and three universities in the UK – Cambridge, Imperial, and Oxford. If you’re interested in starting a startup, or are in the early stages of building one, we hope to see you there.

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@t_blom

5 years

I've tried to give more detail about why we (very rarely) block accounts here @monzo and the (even rarer) cases where we might get it wrong.

Our response to the BBC Watchdog report: Why we sometimes have to block or close accounts

Last night, BBC Watchdog discussed how we deal with financial crime and why we block or close some accounts. We wanted to share some more details about how we approach this and be as transparent as...

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@t_blom

6 years

You can now pay someone nearby using @monzo , even if they aren't in your phonebook 💥💳💷

Monzo Help - Sending money Monzo to Monzo

The home for everything you need to know about using Monzo.

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@t_blom

4 years

@StephanieYeboah @monzo Monzo is not going bust. Source: I am the CEO 😉 You can read more about what we're doing to handle the impacts of COVID-19 here:

We're here to support you with your money and your Monzo account during the coronavirus outbreak

We're here to help you as usual, and we're ready to keep doing so.

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6 years

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." This sounds like the definition of every great leader I've met.

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@t_blom

6 years

As of today, you can see your salary in @monzo one day early 🚀

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7 years

Delighted that @monzo was recognised at the Card & Payments Awards 2017! 🍾🥇💳

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@t_blom

5 years

It may be a "cracking story", but the article on @monzo in The Times this morning is misleading and inaccurate. I've tried to set the record straight here

Setting the record straight on our crowdfunding round

This morning, a Times writer published an article claiming we are lending money to customers to buy shares in a supposed “overdraft offer” as part of our recently announced crowdfunding round. I want...

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Richard Fletcher

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You couldn’t make it up ... cracking story from ⁦ @HoskingTheTimes ⁩ on how loss making fintech plans to allow customers to use overdrafts to buy unlisted shares via £20m crowdfunding ...

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2 years

I'm excited to join YC as a visiting group partner for the next batch 😊

Welcome Surbhi, Nicolas, Divya, Ashu, and Tom | Y Combinator

We’re excited to welcome two new full-time Group Partners (Surbhi Sarna and Nicolas Dessaigne) and three W22 Visiting Group Partners (Divya Bhat, Ashu Desai and Tom Blomfield) to YC.

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5 years

Spent some time this morning getting my ducks in a row.

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6 years

Unexpected benefit of hiring great senior executives - a flood of new candidates applying because they want to work with great leaders.

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4 months

Some of YC's most successful companies are consumer-focussed. I dug into the key metrics that helped them succeed 📈🚀 Headline User Growth - Paid vs Organic 💰 Virality vs Network Effect 🦠 Cannibalisation in paid referral schemes 👺

Consumer Startup Metrics | Startup School

In this episode of Startup School, YC Group Partner Tom Blomfield dives deeper into the metrics that matter most for consumer startups. Tom discusses paid an...

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5 years

The claim that @monzo has a specific "overdraft offer" which "lends customers money to buy its shares" is just not true. On this basis, literally every publicly-listed UK bank lends customers money to buy its shares

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4 years

With the New Year here, I wanted to look back at what we achieved at @monzo in 2019 and what’s coming up. We’re building Monzo with you and for you, and over 3.6m people now bank with us. We can’t thank you enough for all your support!

Monzo in 2020: looking back and looking forward

With the new year in full swing, we wanted to take some time to reflect on what we achieved in 2019

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@t_blom

5 months

I had a lot of fun making this video on startup metrics - I hope it's useful!

Y Combinator

@ycombinator

5 months

Metrics. One of the most important elements to running any startup. But which ones matter? YC Group Partner @t_blom dives into what key metrics to track and how to use them to make the best decisions for your company in our latest @startupschool episode:

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At YC, we spend a lot of effort making sure companies can describe what they do in clear, concise terms. The difference is remarkable when listening to the pitches of founders who haven't thought about this

How to Pitch Your Company : YC Startup Library | Y Combinator

It is much easier to talk to an investor if they understand what your company does. As a founder you'll have to pitch your startup countless times. To be effective, your pitch has to be clear and...

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6 years

Writing code is an unusual skill because it grants exceptional leverage. Well-written software can solve problems for millions of people with near-zero marginal cost.

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26 days

Happy Demo Day to all who celebrate

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4 years

Using a bash script to poll the website of my favourite artisanal flour mill for additional delivery slots is a new low point.

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2 years

Nadine Dorries is an embarrassment to the British technology sector

Rt Hon Nadine Dorries

@NadineDorries

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We cannot allow technology to distort democracy and compromise our free and fair society. ⁦ @DailyMailUK ⁩ has undertaken its own research and the results are disturbing.

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6 years

names @monzo as the No.1 tech company in London to work for 🏆

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2 years

Honestly, has this ever worked? Big consultancies are responsible for some of the most egregious tech delivery failures in modern times. I'm so fed up that we can't build good public-service apps.

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2 years

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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1 year

I keep getting messages from government advisors who are desperate for ideas to "unlock the Brexit dividend" or "slash EU red tape". You know what would be really great for business? Access to a single market with 450 million extra customers.

Jacob Rees-Mogg warns Remainers deliberately undermining Brexit as they look to make UK a failure

Jacob Rees-Mogg claims Remainers are being 'obstructive' in a bid to make it 'more difficult' for Britain to benefit from Brexit

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@t_blom

3 years

It's surprising to still see top-tier VCs dragging out the legal processes of £2-3m seed rounds. I've seen them haggling over inconsequential terms for months. It is a *massive* mental tax on the founders and stops them focussing on growing the business. Why do they do it?

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2 years

Every @gocardless feature release is a bittersweet moment for me. It's awesome to see such cutting-edge functionality. But I deeply regret creating 50 test accounts in production.

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6 years

Every company has an impact on society and I believe companies have a moral obligation to ensure that impact is a positive one. Paying fair taxes is part of that.

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6 years

Bingo is tired out after a long day in the @monzo office

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6 years

In @MoneySavingExp 's recent poll, 89% of @firstdirect customers described the current account service as "great”. Barclays got 41% and RBS 29%. @monzo wasn’t ranked with only got 99 respondents (threshold was 100) 97% of customers rated @monzo “great”

TSB crashes to the bottom of our customer service poll - check how well your bank did

TSB has crashed to the bottom of our banking customer service poll, with almost half of those who rated it describing its service as 'poor' over the last six months.

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@t_blom

5 years

I'm delighted to be working with @anuhariharan and the team at @ycombinator Continuity. I didn't realise it was possible, but you can sense the same magic of the core YC experience in their growth-stage investing.

Anu Hariharan

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#1 . Humbled to be a partner in @monzo 's journey with founders @t_blom and @jonas (both YC alums!) and the entire Monzo team -

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Oh **** I just noticed it's 1hr48 long. No-one needs to listen to me for that long. Maybe just watch the highlights 🤣

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5 years

"US president calls London mayor ‘loser’ in tweets before touching down at Stansted" I don't understand how is this is possible in modern politics. It's like we're living in some weird parallel universe. Can we please just go back to normal now? 😞

Donald Trump insults Sadiq Khan as he lands in UK for state visit

US president tweets call London mayor ‘loser’ before touching down at Stansted

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5 years

Back in August, we let you get paid a day early, for free. No hassle - just more time with your money. And now we’ve introduced two new features that make getting paid into @monzo even better.

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2 years

I'm putting together an off-the-record dinner series for founders of Series A / B / C startups companies in London. If you're interested, or know someone who might be, please DM me.

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6 years

Huge congratulations to @DannyCheetham for beating the gambling 🙂

Gambling: 'A banking app helped me beat my addiction'

As thousands sign up to "gambling blocks" on two apps, one ex-addict talks about how it helped him.

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7 months

The @ycombinator application deadline is this Friday. I did YC in 2011 and it changed the entire trajectory of my life.

Apply to Y Combinator | Y Combinator

To apply for the Y Combinator program, submit an application form. We accept companies twice a year in two batches. The program includes dinners every Tuesday, office hours with YC partners and...

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11 months

I'm back in London for a few days, and it's good to see that most of the UK press is still printing absolute horseshit for headlines. Let's start with @thetimes - here's an example from today:

Matt Clifford

@matthewclifford

11 months

1/3 Quick thread on AI risk: there’s a story in The Times today headlined “Two years to save the world, says AI adviser” based on comments I made in an interview. The headline doesn’t reflect my view. Here’s what I said:

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Dyson spent £20m of its own money and offered hundreds of staff to make ventilators for the NHS during the worst national emergency in 80 years. PM and Chancellor offered reasonable assurances to make that happen. Mudslinging from @DavidLammy & others.

David Lammy

@DavidLammy

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The sleaze never stops. It’s wrong to get tax breaks just because you have the PM on speed dial. Boris Johnson must now agree to a full, transparent and independent inquiry into lobbying.

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Also, some countries (UAE, China) will make you do a third step which involves getting a stamp from their embassy in your country. During covid, there was a 5 month backlog to get this stamp.

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7 years

I just got a lovely message from an 80-year old @monzo customer. Mobile banking is not just for millennials.

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2 months

Yarn has been super valuable for many of the current YC batch - they’re able to make high quality product demo videos in minutes. This content performs extremely well on LinkedIn and drives a ton of inbound interest for b2b products

Y Combinator

@ycombinator

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🧶 @Yarn_so (YC W24) is a new video app for software teams. Make agency-quality product and sales videos in under 15 minutes – no experience needed. Congrats on the launch @diegostory and Nicole!

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5 years

Somewhat like the queen, I apparently now have an official birthday - 11th July. (My actual birthday is not until August) Thanks @thetimes

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6 years

Transparency is easy when everything's going well. It really matters when things go wrong. Here's @obeattie talking about one of @monzo 's worst technical platform outages and what we've learned from it.

Keynote: Anatomy of a Production Kubernetes Outage - Oliver Beattie,...

Want to view more sessions and keep the conversations going? Join us for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Seattle, December 11 - 13, 2018 (http://b...

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@t_blom

7 years

I'm really happy to see more @monzo current accounts rolling out. Aiming for 20k this month.

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💷💕 #Winning -- Everything about my @monzo experience to date has been 💯 - super duper excited to get a current account! 💕💷

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Hey @LeeHepner I've had a number of friends visit SF from London recently. They're all horrified by the open air drug markets and homeless people with severe mental health problems. They can't understand why one of the richest cities in the world has become like this.

Lee Hepner

@LeeHepner

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I have lots of friends who visit San Francisco from all over the place. You know the ONE thing they all comment on? Not open air drug markets, not feeling unsafe, not downtown vacancies...

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I’d like to visit NYC for 3 weeks in May. Does anyone want to do a house-swap?! I’ve got a 3 bed apartment in San Francisco (Noe Valley) - I’d like to stay somewhere in Manhattan or Brooklyn. I’ve looked at the house-swapping platforms but there’s no liquidity. And Airbnb is…

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Queuing around the block at the Imperial Entrepreneurs event tonight! I'm excited 🙂

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Most startups aren’t competing with other startups; they’re competing with no one giving a shit.

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"apostilling" apparently means that other countries that are party to the Hague Convention will recognise a document signed outside their jurisdiction. I learned that today from the notary

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Fun piece on @monzo in the @Telegraph today

The rapid rise of banking app Monzo: 'Zuckerberg would turn up and talk about everything that went...

There’s a scene in the 2010 film about the early days of Facebook The Social Network in which successful start-up founder Sean Parker, played by Justin Timberlake, offers a young Mark Zuckerberg and...

www.telegraph.co.uk

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I'm just trying to play some StarCraft to get away from the madness but everyone in the Europe lobby is busy debating Brexit.

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3 years

I've written a guide to early-stage fundraising:

How to raise investment

Update: I am no longer personally angel investing - I'm focussed on other things at the moment. Please don't ask me to invest in your company! 🙂 I started angel-investing in 2021, and a large...

tomblomfield.com

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It's a good thing we regained sovereignty and stuff, because it's pretty fucking annoying paying a bunch of extra import duty the whole time.

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What one thing would you add to @monzo in 2019 to make it (more) awesome?

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