Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. In 2022 and beyond, Monzo’s revenues are likely to further accelerate as they benefit from cross border-travel, increased EU interchange rates, and new products.

peer-to-peer 103

peer-to-peer incumbents financing finance 103

TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Predictably, they’re mostly focused on the how and why: How do I get into an accelerator? Part 4: The consequences of scaling up sneaker culture. The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. How to get into a startup accelerator. The StockX EC-1.

board 91

board pitching venture capital mix-use 91

Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

A successful seed investor once remarked to me that he views “the traditional seed round” today for a good or proven founder to be akin to having a “ free first move on the chess board.” If the first move on the chess board was free, it leads me to believe that for most, the second and even third moves will be costly.

opportunity 76

opportunity incumbents VC culture 76

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. In 2022 and beyond, Monzo’s revenues are likely to further accelerate as they benefit from cross border-travel, increased EU interchange rates, and new products.

peer-to-peer 40

peer-to-peer incumbents financing finance 40

TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Any area that needs to compete both with incumbents and also a set of already successful “new age” companies that made the first step of meaningful disruption. There is an incredible, thriving entrepreneurship culture that breeds fascinating companies weekly. Interestingly, valuation trends seem to trail the U.S.

startup 141

startup mix-use SaaS advice 141

TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

We dug into the how and why of its new investment and riffed on what going remote-first has done for the company, as well as its ability to attract culture-aligned and more diverse talent. How should they think about competition, strategic investment versus top-tier VC firms and how to build their board? are all testament to this.

startup 78

startup construction VC health 78

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. There’s a culture in Silicon Valley that moves fast and breaks things, right? Bill Gurley : Well, industries get more regulated and incumbents write the regulation.

health 43

health VC hospitality disruption 43