Thanks for the super fast replies. I now know what to say when someone says ‘that’s a bright card’, yeah it’s based on some guys trainers. Legendary story
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Or do a deepfake and superimpose his head over the mouse in the Itchy and Scratchy cartoon!
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Right, the gloves are off, I’ve resorted to poetry.
I have pretentiously titled it ‘The Question’
The was once a new bank CEO,
Who had an answer we wanted to know.
Please be a darling,
Or we’ll p**s off to starling,
Is the answer about cats a no?
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I see no way this cannot work 
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Yeah, I’m afraid that’s a myth. Let me explain what actually happened, there’s a video version of this 
We decided we wanted our initial cards to be flashy for them to work as conversation starters and also clearly say “work in progress”. Similar to car prototypes.
At that point we didn’t have a proper logo or anything so we validated with our card manufacturer that neon colours were a feasible option for prepaid/debit cards (after seeing some neon gift cards by Debenhams). In all honesty we thought we would only produce a couple hundreds of them and then move into an “official” Monzo card design once our visual identity had been designed.
The surprise however was to find out that people really liked our neon cards, so we decided to stick with them. And here we are 
Not as sexy as the trainers story though 
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Reading that was like when I found out that Santa was not real!!!
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Apart from Tom hating cats, it now appears he is telling porkies as well 
It was he who said in an interview that in order to meet a manufacturer deadline they rushed Hugo to pick a card design. Due to lack of time and out of sheer anger at Tom’s disregard for his profession Hugo looked at his Nike trainers and said here’s your card design 
I am really looking forward to the Monzo book / movie as it is definitely going to be a captivating mix of reality and fiction 
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Everybody at Monzo needs to be kitted out with these:
Asap! 
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Have these.
Was also wearing this top
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Not wearing it at present (shame on me 
) but won this:
Bet they match perfectly 
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