Taking on the big banks, VC bias & being the ‘odd one out’ – Starling Bank founder Anne Boden

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🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Anne Boden, CEO and founder of digital bank Starling, talks about her journey taking on the big banks, being the “odd one out” in the world of finance, why VCs are overlooking female founders and why crypto is “lacking sufficient practical and moral purpose”.

Boden founded Starling Bank in 2014 after decades of working for some of the world’s biggest banks. Starling, which is an online-only bank, provides both business and current accounts. The unicorn fintech company has been profitable since 2021 and has 500,000 small business accounts. In 2018, Boden was awarded an MBE for services to financial technology.

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0:00.0	I was a 54-year-old Welshwoman, five foot tall, that was knocking on doors saying I could take on the big bank.
0:15.0	There are many, many women who are not being promoted, who are not being funded, whilst average men are being
0:24.4	promoted and being funded.
0:29.9	Right now, crypto is lacking sufficient, practical and moral purpose.
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1:17.8	Hello and welcome to the UKTN podcast, a weekly conversation with founders of some of the UK's
1:24.4	high-growth tech companies. Each episode, we will talk through the founder's personal journey, their vision for their
1:30.6	business and their views of the wider tech industry.
1:34.1	I'm Jane Wakefield and joining me today is Anne Bowden, the founder and CEO of Digital Bank
1:39.7	Starling.
1:40.9	Thanks for joining me, Anne.
1:42.2	Hi, Jane.
1:43.0	First of all, let me just ask a little bit about
1:45.9	you and how you came to be in this current role at Starling Bank. Well, I'm a computer science
1:53.2	graduate from the early 80s that spent her whole career in corporate jobs in technology
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