Author Archives: Silicon Roundabout

Banked is a new global payment network offering Pay by Bank as a real alternative to the card schemes. Whilst open banking has been around for four years, much of the focus on utilising it was for account information services, …

The past two years have caused no end of chaos and disruption. Yet, the UK’s entrepreneurial spirit seems unphased. According to Companies House, almost 80 new businesses were created every hour in the first half of 2021. Despite the challenges, …

I left my old job on a whim! Well, not really on a whim but pretty close – I left after serving a month’s notice with no clear plan on what to do next other than wanting to work on …

Why we say “f**k dating apps, 6 days of the week”. Monday 3rd: New match! Tuesday 4th: Hi, how are you? Wednesday 12th: Hey! I’m good thanks. Thursday 20th: Sorry, been busy! What’s up? Friday 21st: Nothing much! Would be …

What were your biggest learnings from your experiences with Lovefilm,Secret Escapes and Oxalyst? Those three businesses have very little in common, except that they all took inspiration from something successful and tried to replicate the model somewhere else. Two of …

Play a little game with me. Think of the last purchase you made online, that was important to you. Maybe a holiday you booked, a hotel, a new TV, even booking a restaurant. Have you got something in mind? Now …

What were you biggest learnings at Jefferies? Jefferies was a great learning experience for me. Whether you agree with the banking culture or not (most people don’t), you tend to understand your true self a little bit better when it’s …

Getting the advocacy we need from the UK Government to support its home-grown tech champions like Lifebit on the global stage. This is seen in the public sector here in the UK, but on the whole the UK has a …

What were your biggest learnings at Boston Consulting Group? I joined BCG at a senior consultant level, having 5 years of experience in consumer products previously. I joined the Financial Services practice (at my request – I wanted experience outside …

When I started Envoy in 2013, I knew a secret that few did: workplaces lacked user-friendly, experience-centered tools. Working at Google in the early days, we had access to a lot of amazing user-friendly internal tools, built by people in …