Monzo Staff Weekly Q&A - Tom Blomfield (CEO)

Tom answered a question from me. For the record, I don’t know him and have no connection with anyone from Monzo and it wasn’t a planted question (but then I would say that, wouldn’t I?! :wink:)

On preparing in advance, given that the questions were posted openly on the internet, it seems reasonable that he might have had a look and considered what his answers might be?

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Does it even matter? We asked questions, some of us got answers, it was interesting and informative.

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No.

Tom isn’t the kind of person who needs to prepare answers in advance. Every week we hammer him with hard questions at the company Q&A and he always gives impressively detailed and well considered answers :+1:t2:

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And we were all patiently like…

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With a pinch of

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Gotta love people who can’t deal with plain, boring reality.

What does the cynic in you feel was kept back? How much more ‘real’ could this friendly thing to do, in keeping with Tom’s and Monzo’s whole ethos, have been, and what were they achieving by ‘preparing’ and ‘selecting’?

In short, I’m not sure I even understand what you think could’ve been achieved by faking this.

I’ve seen Tom speak numerous times, since the Alpha days, and the answers this time were entirely consistent with his whole approach to banking and setting up Monzo.

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I wanted his PIN code and mother’s maiden name and he’s not been forthcoming with the answers. I think these questions are selected :face_with_monocle:

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and the 3 digit number from the back of his card?

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He replied to me as well, and my question was certainly not orchestrated.

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Goodness, I feel absolutely awful now. :sob:

Please don’t! We have some passionate customers but we still welcome different points of view. It keeps us accountable.

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After an exhaustive Slack campaign, we still weren’t able to find out if Tom likes cats.

More progress from me and @BethS on this soon hopefully.

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We are trying folks, we are trying.

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You are both on my Christmas card list for your dedication to finding out the truth. That the CEO would avoid such an important issue is just a disgrace. Perhaps a senate committee is needed?

:joy_cat:

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“Senator I’ll get my team to follow up with you on that”

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I’m really new to Monzo so sorry if this has already been asked and answered, but why the name ‘Monzo’? And why Hot Coral as a colour for the cards? Personally I love it and often get comments on my card, but just interested in why? Thanks

The name was originally Mondo but there was an issue over trade names so they had a competition and the winning suggestion was Monzo.

it is said it was Hot Coral because one of their IT guys had a pair of trainers in that colour.

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There’s some great insight from @hugo here about how “hot coral” came about.

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Any update on CatGate?

It’s not like you’re all busy doing other things…

:face_with_monocle:

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