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Stebbings: Revolut Out-Shipped Monzo On New Product Releases
“Revolut out-shipped the shit out of Monzo on new products.”
Harry Stebbings Jul 27, 2025 ▶ 21:19 20Product: Should We Kill the PM Role Entirely | How Does Product Design Change Most in a World of AI | How Do Monzo Build Product Today: What Works, What Does Not | Why Most Product Sucks and What Makes Truly Great Product
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Blomfield: Monzo received 96 consecutive investor rejections for a 2020 flat round
“And I had 96 no's in a row for that fundraise to try and do a flat round.”
Tom Blomfield May 13, 2024 ▶ 4:59 Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Blomfield: European neobanks N26, Revolut, and Monzo failed initial US expansion
“N-twenty-six has failed, Revolut's failed, Monzo's, the first go's failed”
Tom Blomfield May 13, 2024 ▶ 16:49 Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Revolut grew fastest in Ireland, Romania, and Poland, not the UK
“So if you think about Revolut against Monzo, right, like the markets we grew the fastest wasn't the UK. It was Ireland, it was Romania, Poland.”
Val Scholz Jun 21, 2024 ▶ 0:04 Val Scholz: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics & Strategies | E1168 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Blomfield: Monzo survived COVID by raising $100M in a 40% down round
“It was a sort of 40% down round. I think about 1.3 billion And we got a hundred million, and the company survived.”
Tom Blomfield May 13, 2024 ▶ 7:20 Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Monzo acquired 99% of its 1.2 million users through viral mechanics
“And here we are, 1.2 million customers, 99% through viral mechanics.”
Tom Blomfield Nov 30, 2018 ▶ 7:37 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
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Blomfield: Monzo will launch a third-party marketplace financial control center
“I'm really, really excited about building out this marketplace of products from third parties on the Monzo platform to be a real control center, to let our customers manage all of their money wherever it sits within a single place.”
Tom Blomfield Nov 30, 2018 ▶ 32:52 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
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TS Anil: Monzo Has Surpassed 10 Million Customers
“We have north of ten million customers now, Harry, right?”
TS Anil Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 9:47 TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Monzo Achieves £145 Retail ARPU and £150 Small Business ARPU
“It's about a 145 pounds. On the retail side. And 505 150 on the small business side.”
TS Anil Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 15:58 TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Monzo Adds Over 200,000 Monthly Users Primarily Through Word of Mouth
“We add over 200,000 new users a month. The vast majority of those are word of mouth.”
TS Anil Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 14:06 TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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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
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Monzo Aims to Unite All Consumer Finance Products in One App
“We intend to meet all of these needs of a customer, right? Budget, borrow, spend, save, insure, invest, all of that In a single place, right? That's what we're building.”
TS Anil Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 10:31 TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Monzo Will Eventually Offer All Major Asset Classes With Educational Tools
“So the goal was, you know, of course we will offer all sorts of asset classes in time, but really build it around helping customers understand what they're doing,”
TS Anil Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 7:17 TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Blomfield: Monzo revenue grew nearly 10x from $100M at departure
“I left at a hundred million revenue or so, and it's now almost 10 X that.”
Tom Blomfield May 13, 2024 ▶ 9:24 Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Blomfield: Monzo burned $100 million annually in early 2020
“We were burning a hundred million a year at the time.”
Tom Blomfield May 13, 2024 ▶ 5:45 Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Blomfield: Monzo acquired its first million customers with zero advertising spend
“But we got to a million customers with no advertising.”
Tom Blomfield May 13, 2024 ▶ 8:49 Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Over 600,000 Monzo Customers Have Enabled the App's Gambling Block Feature
“The staggering numbers, Harry, more than 600,000 customers have turned that on.”
TS Anil Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 12:54 TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Eileen Burbidge Worked as Monzo's Interim CPO for Six Months
“When we lost a chief product officer, sorry, chief people officer, she came and did an exec job at Monzo effectively for like four days a week for six months.”
Tom Blomfield May 13, 2024 ▶ 1:02:41 Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Grimshaw: Monzo Has Reached 7 Million Accounts in the UK
“Monzo now has seven million accounts. It's like a 10th of the British population has signed up to this thing.”
Miles Grimshaw Sep 18, 2023 ▶ 45:01 Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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