Mickey Down and Conrad Kay, industry co-creators, showrunners, executive producers and writers.

Great to talk to you guys. Thanks so much for doing this.

Pleasure.

Pleasure.

A huge fan of the show. Congratulations to you guys on season one and season two.

Thanks so much.

Great to hear.

There's a bit of an obsession with the show among our audience and certainly our staff,

mostly because it's born in real experiences that you guys had on in finance.

And the way you sort of parlayed that into this project, I know you've told this story before,

but can you talk about the moment where this was suggested that you turned this into a show?

Yeah, sure. I mean, so me and Conrad, obviously you mentioned that we had we had pretty

careers in finance. And mine was in Conrad's and we left banking and I started trying to make

it in, you know, TV writing and Conrad was still in the bank that he worked in and we wrote a sort of, I say

a sort of, you know, a prototype version of this show and it wasn't very good at all. It's mostly

just characters called Mickey and Conrad talking about how much they hated finance. And it was a

pretty derivative version of better banking shows and better banking art. And then we split in a draw,

forgot about it. And then we were doing another with Jane Tranter who runs Bad Wolf, who's the production

company that makes industry and she found out we were two former bankers and she said,

have you ever thought about writing a show in this space? And we said yes, we had and it was

absolutely terrible. But she said, have you thought about it from the perspective of the youngest people, the people

like you who were going into it for the first time?

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