Is there another article entitled ‘What can Monzo millionaires teach us about crowdfunding?
Asking for a friend. As if I’ve got a friend.
Ok, who from here has posted a comment on the FT item? Not me.
Pretty simple. ‘Monzo millionaires’ were in way before crowdfunding, had nothing to do with crowdfunding and now don’t give a flying ____ about crowdfunding.
Crowdfunding investors, in this case, are secondary citizens. For which the time will also come…
Patience. All comes to he/she/they/it who waits.
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Back on topic…
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Interestingly I was listening to a talk by Microsoft the other day where the Comedian James Cordon made a super similar point.
He pointed to the inbuilt British cynicism as a barrier to success that the hopelessly optimistic American, specially Californian, approach doesn’t suffer from - and to the point of the article I do see this in approaches to Tech funding/risk appetite.
An important factor that the article conveniently avoids (I guess because of the Y combinator connection) is that after a number of disastrous IPO flops (WeWork, Theranos) Silicon Valley is becoming equally as hard to go Public in. We’re well past the heady days of the early 2000s, in my opinion.
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If he can make it in California, anyone can.
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I think “Comedian” is a bit of a stretch there.
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Gavin and Stacey is very funny. The man’s an arse but you can’t deny his success.
I thought this too until I heard him speak at a fireside chat recently. Completely turned my opinion of him around. Basically I think he acts a little arrogant to hide a self of vulnerability.
I’ve never got the hatred for him. I don’t know him so I can’t judge him and he’s done well for himself.
We seem to hate that about people.
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Mine stems from when he appeared on the Lily Allen show and behaved like a total creep, making people clearly uncomfortable.
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This is it for me. Zero time for people who bully and shout at camera crews and directors, waiting staff and anyone else they think is below them.
And he’s not even very funny. He played a few decent comedy roles, and a few very bad ones, and on talkshows etc he’s just rude and annoying.
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I tend to judge people based on how they treat other people.
My distaste for him is purely based on this, and the fact I’ve never found him even remotely funny. That’s subjective though, of course.
I found Gavin and Stacey funny, but absolutely nothing from him since, which can only lead me to conclude that Ruth Jones contributed an awful lot to that show as co-writer.
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I honestly think we do. Not just him but broadly, but I don’t have time to go into it too much.
I’ve certainly heard reports but I don’t know him. I’m not going to dislike someone I don’t know and have never met.
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Really interesting, thanks for sharing.
I’d be fascinated to know more about which specific metrics and data points Monzo is able to look at that show the performance of the follow-up adverts that are mentioned in the article (where they got 10x the results) - how can they quantify this benefit from someone watching TV?!
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Fun? I wouldn’t say Monzo, Starling or Chase are “fun”. And even if they once were, they have since grown up and become quite… banky.
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I would say Monzo is clearly still fun. The colours they use, the less serious adverts, emojis in many of their different texts. Chase and Starling less so.
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Well, if that is “fun”. I guess so 
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It’s fun for a bank 
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