Monzo CEO On Death Threats, Depression & Digital Banking Wars - Tom Blomfield

Your heart drops. Is this it? Is this the moment the company dies? Tom Bloomfield, entrepreneur, investor, and founder of Monzo. I've never actually talked about this before. And so I resigned. And the response to that resignation She called an all hands meeting and fired the entire company. If I knew then what I knew now, I would never have done it, really. If I knew what the amount of pain and heartache that would be involved, I would never have started, but I didn't know that. I cry quite a lot. Ha ha ha ha.

You know, I'm not ashamed of that. for about three or four seconds. I'd forgotten what my life was. I was calm, and then three or four seconds later all the memories came back and it was just like this crushing weight. That really was the moment I just sort of knew this is This is no life. There were no other emotions in my life really apart from just anxiety. I mean it was serious by the end. We would detect criminals and shut their accounts down. Customs would turn up sometimes with weapons and they'd threaten to turn up with, you know, a bottle of acid and throw it in someone's face. That was Tough.

Uh Lumenfield. What a remarkable entrepreneur. one of the UK's recent real success stories and he

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