Welcome to this repost episode of Jimmy's Jobs of the Future with Anne Bowden,

the CEO and founder of Starling Bank. Anne defies all expectations of the stereotypical

technology entrepreneur. Even more so when you consider her background is in finance and she's

a fintech entrepreneur. I made my career in finance and technology and now I'm an entrepreneur.

There were never new women in finance, there were never new women in tech.

And I think the reason for this is that those businesses, those spheres are very, very

tough for women. You have to be better than the guys. Having founded Starling Bank in 2014,

she now shares her remarkable journey from Wales to Unicorn status, taking 50 million in funding

from Goldman Sachs. Starling employs over a thousand people across the UK and she talks about the

various talent hubs in Southampton and Cardiff. This really is one of the best episodes that we've

ever done of Jimmy's Jobs of the Future. So welcome to today's show, Anne. We start by asking

all of our guests what their journey into work was. What was your work experience or your first

paid job? Well, thank you for inviting me. I have to think back to the very beginning that

my first paid job was my first real job and my start was probably a bit different from

anybody else's. I came from a very ordinary family and my father worked in the

local steelworks and my mother worked in a department store and their dream for me was that I'd

work in an office and not a factory and I just wanted a job with a briefcase. I didn't have a

Saturday job. My father told me that you'll work 40 years in a job working very hard. You can

study until you first job and that's what I did. My first paid job was my first job at university

and since then I worked every day and to be honest I think I have worked every day since then

and I've loved it. So my start, my parents didn't encourage me to have a Saturday job in order to

appreciate money. I knew very well and to work very hard for everything and I was fortunate to have

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