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Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:27 Tom Blomfield And then I started angel investing in 2021, and I, I managed to sell some shares in GoCard as my first company, and I put aside a pot of money, um, that I wanted to put back into the tech ecosystem, specifically the UK tech ecosystem.
- ▶ 43:51 Tom Blomfield I, I was really annoyed, actually, back in, like, 20, when I was starting GoCardless and, and Monzo, I was so annoyed that I wasn't around for the dawn of the internet, you know, like, 95 to 2001.
- ▶ 55:07 Harry Stebbings I'm like, the reason why Monzo and GoCardless were successful was because you didn't have balance, and nothing great is created, actually, with balance.
- ▶ 1:03:38 Tom Blomfield He helped us design our pitch deck for GoCardus in 20 11, and he was taking the photographs back then.
Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:12 Tom Hulme Look, GoCardless would be an example where the business kind of nine figure ARR, they have just continued growing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:13 Harry Stebbings Ok, so that's on, you mentioned kind of the, the kind of consistent compounding of great businesses, like your Go Cardless of the world, it's like your Lendables.
20VC: Monzo's Tom Blomfield on The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, The Secret To Building a 1.2m Community with No Advertising & How To Use Boards As A Tool To Instil Operational Excellence
- ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings As for Tom, prior to Monzo, he was the co-founder of another of London's rocket ship startups in the form of GoCardless, and before that, co-founded Student Marketplace
- ▶ 3:46 Tom Blomfield Um, so before Monzo, I started a company called GoCardless, with two co-founders, Matt and Hiroki. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:14 Tom Blomfield Probably the first six months of GoCard, before it was GoCard, when it was Group A, we really weren't making something that people wanted. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:26 Tom Blomfield So again, back to the GoCartless days, we had this kind of crappy product, Group A, that really people weren't using, and we kept adding feature after feature after feature in the hope that it would somehow spur on growth.
- ▶ 23:46 Tom Blomfield Adam was the first seed investor at GoCardless, and he was on my board back then.
- ▶ 27:58 Tom Blomfield At GoCardless, the board really was the three founders sitting down with Adam and talking over the metrics.