Starling Bank: Building a $1.5 Billion Business Against The Odds: Anne Boden

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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The story of how Anne built her business is a genuine blockbuster of entrepreneurship and perseverance. Starling is one of the biggest FinTech companies in the world, with billions in deposits, but after listening to this you’ll be amazed how it was possible. When her co-founder walked out of the company, and took the funding with him, Anne walked in to an office where she was the only employee on the books, and had to start the company she’d built all over again. Little by little, she came back, and a year later landed a mega investment deal in one of the most incredible stories we’ve ever had on this podcast. What really shines about Anne is the clear sense of mission she’s infused her company with. Anne really cares about doing right by the customer, and cleaning up an industry that historically doesn’t have a record of giving people a fair shake. Anne is in business to make the world a better place, and we think after listening to this you’ll agree that Anne’s story shows business success can come from the most unlikely places. Follow Anne: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/anneboden Twitter - https://twitter.com/anneboden Anne's book: https://amzn.eu/d/hrt2QoX Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you've been listening to this podcast for a while, you would have heard the episode I did with Tom Blomfield.
0:12.2	He was the former CEO and founder of Monzo Bank, one of the big FinTech
0:16.8	disruptive banks here in the UK. And during that episode, he also tells us the story of his time at
0:22.2	Starling Bank, the rival bank that he co-founded with Anne Bowden.
0:27.0	And that episode is dramatic. It should be a movie. They talk about their fallout. In the episode Tom claims that Anne fired 16
0:35.8	members of staff in the same day. So in this episode Anne wanted to come in to tell
0:41.2	her side of the story, but also to tell her story. And it's an
0:46.4	incredible story. It's an inspiring story. It's a story that doesn't quite make
0:51.4	sense in the fact that she's achieved so much in an
0:55.1	industry where she was an underdog at an age when she also admits she is an
1:00.9	underdog confronting stereotypes that make her an underdog.
1:05.0	And despite the odds being stacked against her, she's built a multi-billion dollar bank here in the UK.
1:12.0	It really is a crazy story, one that I believe one day will be a Netflix show. Think about that, two people came together to take on the banking world. They came together and founded a bank called Starling Bank. They had this
1:24.6	major blow up. They separated and starts again and they both build incredibly successful multi-billion dollar banks individually.
1:36.3	It is one hell of a story.
1:38.3	It twists, it turns and it inspires you.
1:41.7	So without further ado, I'm Stephen Bartlett, and this is the diary of a inspires you. So without further ado, I'm Stephen Butler,
1:43.9	and this is the diary of a CEO.
1:46.0	I hope nobody's listening.
1:47.6	But if you are, then an accurate phrase to describe the start of your life?
2:05.9	Yeah, it was humble. My father worked in the Steelworks. My father came home from work with newspapers under his arm or greasy from you know sort of doing hard work.
2:19.0	My mom worked in the local department store and we were happy.
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