The secret to good culture during rapid startup growth – Currencycloud co-founder Richard Arundel
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UKTN
5.0 • 6 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Richard Arundel, the co-founder of Currencycloud, talks about maintaining a good business culture whilst growing rapidly, how developments in cross-border payments have made a real impact in people’s lives, the current state of challenger banks and being acquired by Visa.
Arundel helped build the payments infrastructure company Currencycloud in 2012 from a background of 15 years working in foreign exchange markets. Currencycloud is used by major fintechs including Revolut, Starling and Monese and was acquired by Visa in 2021 for £700m.
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| 0:00.0 | It's really hard to define what culture is, but it's just, it's a few different things. |
| 0:09.0 | It's having a really strong set of company values that aren't just on the wall that actually lived and breathed. |
| 0:16.0 | Organizational health is much like physical health, right? If you stop going to the gym, you're going to get fat. |
| 0:23.6 | I lived in the US for three years, so I understand how fun it is to walk into a bank and say you want to pay some money in anything other than US dollars. |
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| 1:17.4 | Hello and welcome to the UKTN podcast, a weekly chat with the founders of some of the UK's high-growth tech companies and other key stakeholders. |
| 1:26.8 | In this series, we'll be exploring what entrepreneurship looks like in the UK right now, |
| 1:31.3 | as well as getting tips from some of our most innovative business leaders |
| 1:35.3 | and discussing the hot topics in the tech world. |
| 1:38.3 | I'm your host, Jane Wakefield, and I've been a tech journalist for many years, |
| 1:42.3 | and I'm joined this week by Richard Arundel, |
| 1:44.9 | the co-founder of Currency Cloud. |
| 1:47.3 | Welcome, Richard. |
| 1:48.4 | Good afternoon, Jane. |
| 1:49.4 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:50.3 | Now, you founded Currency Cloud, |
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