GoCardless
company on 4 shows · 6 statements across 5 episodes · said 31 times in 7 episodes since 2018
20VC 21 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 5 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 4 
Lenny's Podcast 1
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Tom Hulme: Non-dom investments in GoCardless yielded massive UK tech spinout value
“Like angel investing in GoCardless. If I look at some of the other angel investors in that business, they were non-doms. They were actually Europeans, some Americans. The founders of that business built an important company for London, employing hundreds of pe…”
Blomfield: GoCardless couldn't raise any investment in London in 2011
“We couldn't raise a single penny of investment in 2011.”
Tom Blomfield made 76 angel investments in nine months during 2021
“And then I started angel investing in 2021, and I managed to sell some shares in GoCard as my first company, and I put aside a pot of money that I wanted to put back into the tech ecosystem, specifically the UK tech ecosystem. So I made I was planning to inves…”
Hulme: GoCardless has reached nine-figure annual recurring revenue
“Look, GoCardless would be an example where the business kind of nine figure ARR, they have just continued growing.”
Briggs: GoCardless accelerated scale by shifting to B2B invoice payments
“They were particularly going after companies that sold a lot of consumer direct debits. But shortly after I stepped off the board there, they figured out that actually the biggest market they could go after was B to B invoice payments. And the moment that they…”
GoCardless was founded primarily to avoid working in management consulting
“The problem we were really trying to solve with GoCardus was How can we not be management consultants anymore? So we were really looking for anything that would let us start a company. We were more interested in the starting of the company than the, you know, …”