Was wondering when the news about the holding company would come out. Got a heads up on that a couple months ago and had to sign consent as an options holder.
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Must’ve been that Monzo CoP that was incontinent that one time
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That is literally correct - as in “Your ready for Monzo Business [card]”
It’s a clever play on words/image
aka “The Monzo card for you which is ready for business”
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Nice try but I don’t see it 
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Oof. It takes rearranging the word order for me to see it, I think: in the sense that “Your business is ready for a Monzo account” or thereabouts. But it’s a real stretch. Occam’s razor says it’s more likely someone done messed up.
But on the other hand, we did have ‘frauded’…
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60% of the time I have no need to try every time.
Back down to Earth from Anchorman quotes, it actually makes sense to me as a play on words.
It’s not ‘You are ready for Monzo Business’ (you need this) - it is ‘Your ready for business account [by Monzo]’ (it’s waiting for you)
But it doesn’t say “you’re ready for business Monzo [account]”. It says “your ready for Monzo business” which makes no sense however much I try to mental gymnastics it away.
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Yes, I can see what you mean but, as @HoldenCarver says, Occam’s razor…
Also, I don’t see why Monzo would risk making themselves look illiterate.
add the card image to the text presentation to get the complete, intended ad pitch
Or maybe a genuine mistake hit my visual stimulation as a positive marketing move. If that’s the case, the ad has stimulated one person, me, and I don’t want a business account. Huge fail in that case.
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I see it as Your ‘ready for Monzo’ business. But I agree, it doesn’t read very easily…
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Seeing how many people confuse “your” and “you’re” these days, it is obvious this is a mistake by a marketing person whose teachers didn’t insist on spelling and grammar enough to make it stick.
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In slightly related news, I’ve noticed that https://onepoundtweets.com/ is currently no more
(See: One Pound Tweets - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2023 | Product Hunt for reference)
All this talk about grammar and no one notices this slightly awkward line from the Forbes article
“TS Anil, Monzo’s co-founder and CEO”
Well at least one of those things is correct.
Seriously though congratulations TS and team, this has been some seriously good work over the last few years
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tbh, we were distracted by the Spotify ad - the Forbes article lost out to that 
But yeah, fact-check questions with Forbes there.
And agreed on the congrats to TS & Team - there’s been some serious, experienced, effort piled into the day-to-day at Monzo. There’ll be more to come too 
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Not exactly media, but there’s a short moment where the hackers deep fake Zac’s identity to open a Monzo account:
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Is that that guy that hired private investigators to tail him for a month? Because that was a brilliant watch.
This looks interesting so I’ve bookmarked it for later!
Edit: nope. Similar concept, different guy.
“Monzo’s investment client waiting list is similar in size to the number of clients Nutmeg, the UK’s largest robo-adviser, has achieved after 10 years”
Also, (me writing) Monzo community made it onto the Financial Times - and not in a bad light! (The FT quotes are illustrating a melting pot of opinions and debate rather than highlighting one side of an argument that fits the narrative as we’ve had from the tabloids in the past).
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Got an email from Apple today reminding me about Express Mode for my phone and look what card they used in the picture:
So cool!
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Some good advertising.
“Ohhh what’s monzo? Let me check”
“Wowza! Lemme sign up”.
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Apple buys Monzo - confirmed.
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