Announcing Our £22m Investment Round and Crowdfunding!

[alexs (Alex Sherwood)]

The purpose of my comments was to highlight the fact that the statements that @thom_horne made were incorrect & misleading, in my opinion.

I also made the point that he’s not in a position to judge what the team should or shouldn’t be spending their time on.

And that’s all.

There’s certainly room for improvement with this process. No doubt you’ll be pleased to see that I raised an issue today -

The Pledges & Investing

Since non-Monzo users have been able to invest in this round of crowdfunding, there’s been a report from at least one user who knows someone else that pledged multiple times from several accounts, in order to increase their chances of being picked to invest in the ballot. I know that Monzo had concerns about filling the allocation & perhaps Crowdcube won’t allow this - but could the next round of crowdfunding be restricted to Monzo users only - to ensure that everyone has a fair chance to inves…