https://monzo.com/blog/2018/07/31/monzo-las-vegas/
It’s true!
For the entire of April and a little bit of May, I was part of a small but killer team sent out to Las Vegas to open our new office there. Here’s me in the City of Sin, soaking it all in (with my Monzo shirt on, naturally 
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Lots more news to come on this, but it was an AWESOME trip and I am truly, truly humbled to everyone involved for letting me be part of it. Not least the Project Lead, Dillon Van Auken, and our training leads Oliver Zarandi and Tristan Manetta.
I was tasked with leading all non-technical training - by that I mean teaching all of our new Las Vegas hires about our incredible Monzo culture, from Radical Transparency, to Ethical Banking, to the history of the company, to our amazing Community Forum, our culture of Feedback and 1:1s and MUCH more besides!
It was an absolutely amazing experience out in the desert, we have some incredible staff there who we’ll be introducing to you all very soon, and to literally build an office up from nothing, and teach everybody about a product that’s completely new to them, and that they can’t actually use yet in their own country, was a difficult but hugely amazing and rewarding experience. There were LOTS of challenges - including things we’ve literally never faced in the UK - but we overcame everything brilliantly!
We’ll be sharing pictures of the office and the staff members there soon (you WILL be jealous of the view 
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We’ve had and continue to have UK staff over there on a continual basis in rotation, and I’m happy to say that our Vegas COps are doing an AMAZING job. Some of you may even have talked to some of them in the last few months on support without even realising it! We’ve truly made it a seamless experience (they are banned from using the phrase “checking account” 
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We had an incredible, incredible time out there as a staff and it’s created a great bond, not just between the US team and the UK teams, but with everyone involved in the project. One of my personal highlights was filming and editing a video of the staff and the office to share with London and Cardiff at our weekly Company All-Hands! Amongst many other things.
So many stories I could share but there’s lots more to come!