TS Anil

16 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 13, 2024 by Tom Blomfield · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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May 13, 2024 positive
Opinion
Blomfield: Monzo's CEO and COO navigated regulation better than I ever could
“And I think TS, the new CEO, and Sajata, the COO, are spectacularly good at that, as well as maintaining the culture and the products. And they've just done such a good job taking it over the, you know, when I left it over the next four years that I couldn't h…”
Tom Blomfield May 13, 2024 ▶ 56:51 Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 31, 2025
Insight
Fast-Scaling Regulated Companies Must Prevent Compliance Controls Debt
“When a company's scaling as fast as we were, you need to make sure that, again, back to the point about a regulated industry, that the controls scale alongside as well, and you don't want to pick up debt on the control side.”
TS Anil Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 21:00 TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 31, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
TS Anil: Monzo's ARPU Outperforms All Competitor Digital Banks
“Our ARPU is significantly higher than any competitor, right? The stickiness of revenues is higher than anybody else, right?”
TS Anil Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 42:41 TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 31, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Monzo's Revenue Is Split Evenly Across Transactions, Lending, and Subscriptions
“The third is transaction based revenues, interchange FX and so on. The third is on balance sheet lending. When customers take out an unsecured borrowing product from us, loan or an overdraft or Monzo flex. And then the last one third is what I describe as good…”
TS Anil Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 0:03 TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 31, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Monzo's Investment Waitlist Hit 150,000 After a Single Press Interview
“When we launched our investments product, I literally did one press interview, and by that evening, we had a 150,000 customers add themselves to the waiting list for the Monzo investments product.”
TS Anil Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 32:45 TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 31, 2025
Insight
Full-Wallet Digital Banking Products Create Cycle-Resistant Revenue Streams
“When we're building a product that is about meeting all the needs that your wallet has, it's by definition going to be a diversified revenues, which by the way is a high quality business model because it's not, it isn't hostage to, you know, economic cycles an…”
TS Anil Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 25:25 TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 31, 2025 negative
Insight
TS Anil: Incumbent Banks Will Never Successfully Reinvent Themselves
“The legacy players were never going to fix it. For the, with the best of intent and the best of wanting to do it was never gonna get fixed by incumbents, right? And the history of incumbents transforming their industries is anyways very, very sketchy. And for …”
TS Anil Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 1:36 TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 31, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
TS Anil Started Work at 2 AM in SF When Joining Monzo
“Because I would start my day at two or three every morning, which is already 10 o'clock or 11 o'clock in the morning here in London.”
TS Anil Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 49:14 TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 31, 2025 positive
Disclosure
TS Anil Holds No UK Bank Account Other Than Monzo
“I don't have another bank account in this country, by the way.”
TS Anil Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 14:53 TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 31, 2025
Disclosure
Monzo Was Running Out of Capital When TS Anil Became CEO
“We were running out of capital, and there was COVID on our revenues that had fallen off of a cliff. Monetization was lagging the user growth.”
TS Anil Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 2:44 TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 31, 2025
Insight
TS Anil: A Mission Without a Business Plan Is a Bumper Sticker
“A mission without a business plan is a bumper sticker.”
TS Anil Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 23:34 TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 31, 2025 positive
Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2030
TS Anil: Monzo Will Eventually IPO but Is in No Rush
“We have the luxury of time, right? We have the gift of time because we have plenty of capital to build out our ambition, and not only that, we have extraordinarily supportive investors, patient, but also supportive as in, like, would give us more capital if we…”
TS Anil Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 35:57 TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 31, 2025
Disclosure
Monzo Raised a £250M Down Round Weeks After TS Anil Became CEO
“We raised two hundred fifty million pounds. I mean, we did the down round within minutes after I started, like three weeks after I started, and then we topped up that down round over the next six months.”
TS Anil Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 41:15 TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 31, 2025 neutral
Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2028
Monzo's Next Funding Round Will Target Institutional Investors Over VCs
“In the next round, whenever we do it, we'll get the big institutional investors. So right now we have a few. We have GIC and others who are, you know, institutional investors. But I think our journey looking ahead is not VC names.”
TS Anil Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 43:29 TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 31, 2025
Insight
Refusing to Charge for Value Is Doing Charity With VC Money
“If we choose to not charge for things where we transparently and with the customer and where we believe we're adding value to the customer, if we choose to not charge it, and we see that as somehow being a mission thing to do, it's effectively saying I'm doing…”
TS Anil Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 24:32 TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 31, 2025
Disclosure
A Pivotal Investor Pulled Out of Monzo's 2020 Fundraise Right Before Closing
“You know, an investor that I would have spent months working on in 2020, and they're that close, and I know that it's gonna be pivotal for us, and it changes our story, because on the back of that, I will be able to raise more capital, and they don't pull the …”
TS Anil Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 50:38 TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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