My feedback to you would be that it there really wasnât anything worth clarifying for either of you and youâd have been better off to resist the urge to get the last word in.
Back to the topic, a book by Anne Bowden is surely quite niche? I canât see it flying off the shelf but I guess itâll generate a few articles.
As someone there early enough to hear not-so-distant-past recollections of what happened, itâs hardly âstealing someone elseâs ideaâ.
Of course Iâll be interested to hear Anneâs take on it and how much of a resemblance (or not) it bears to what I heard, but remember - itâs just one side of the story.
Letâs just put it this way - if sheâs blameless in her recollection then itâs worth taking with several grains of salt. You may well ask why 10 other people all followed Tom out the door.
And given that many/most of those people are no longer even at Monzo, itâs perhaps less interesting than it might have been a year ago.
Perhaps even doing something like giving him premium/plus for the first 3/6 month term or something⌠you know to keep it relevant and also push some pr about the new accounts.
Someone much smarter than me could think of a better way of linking the two with a catchy tagline
I got the impression she wanted to use off-the-shelf everything, rather than genuinely re-implement banking software from the ground up. Tbh itâs surprising Starling did as well as it did, given that approach.
Of the four new digital banks gaining traction in 2016 before they launched, Starling and Monzo were built from scratch, and Atom and Tandem were âoff the shelfâ.