"Your golden ticket will be here soon"

[podgib (Geoff Pascoe)]

Sure, initially that makes sense. If they need a queue to manage signups long term, though, there’s something wrong.

I think @naji summed it up fairly well here:

Monzo incentives and the ethics of bumping the queue

Hey Ade, You’ve touched on something which we are constantly questioning ourselves. To many, the queue system seems at odds with the inclusive ethos we look to embody as a company. Ultimately, we would really like to move away from this in the future. To be completely honest, growth has been a necessary focus for us as we move towards launching as a fully fledged bank and the referrals/queue skip really helped us drive this. Without, we’d have struggled our way through multiple funding rounds …