Hey forum friends 
With @Anthony away enjoying a well deserved break, I offered to jump in and give you all an update on Monzo USA progress on behalf of our most excellent US team 
So here’s what’s been happening since our last update—hot off the proverbial press! 
We moved into our new home 
We’ve moved into our new office space. Our LA team will be working from Second Home Hollywood, and here’s a little sneak peek of our space 
We’ve been focussing on feedback and user research 
We’re listening to your ideas and love hearing what you need! Knowing more about how you pay your bills, send money to friends, and manage your financial goals are all super important for helping us build Monzo—so keep the feedback coming!
Naomi has been hard at work delving into everything we found out from our first launch events—figuring out where the pain points might be in our current sign up flow, what terminology is confusing, and what questions are constantly popping up.
We’ve started scouting out venues for more events 
We’re figuring out what worked and what didn’t from our first two events, and thinking about bigger and smaller events! Keep an eye on the forum and your emails for updates on these!
We did a deep dive into product ideas 
Right now, our early stage US product has similarities to our UK product. We want to make sure we’re building a product that works for our US customers, in the US, so we started to think about product ideas make sense for our US customers further down the line.
…but for now we’re focussing on making our current offering as smooth as possible 
For the rest of this year, we’d like to work with our core offering as it stands to reach significantly more people. We’ve made huge progress, but we want to ensure we—and our customers—are comfortable and happy with the user experience as it exists now before we start adding more new features!
Meghan went to FinCon 2019! 
Our Monzo US Marketing Manager @MeghanRuff (wow that’s a lot of M’s) went to FinCon 2019 in Washington DC and by all accounts had a great time. She nailed her 30-second elevator pitch, and confirmed that US folks are as in love with Hot Coral as we are in the UK 
She learned some key information about the present and future of Fintech in the US, what people are looking for from us and other new challengers, and how events like this and similar conferences can help us moving forward.
And finally, we’re still hiring 
There’s some key roles we’re hiring for in the US, including Android, iOS and web engineers amongst others! So if you know someone great (or if you ARE someone great), then monzo.com/careers is the place to be.
If you have any questions, be sure to reply and let us know 
Until next time!
