Some companies are easy to start. Some companies less so. Sometimes you just enjoy playing life on hard mode, and so you start a bank. Tom Blomfield (CEO of @monzo) was kind enough to chat with Stripe Atlas users about what it took to do that: https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/ama-tom-blomfield …
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I largely agree with Tom regarding domain expertise. Largely. There are probably fields which you need 10~20++ years to appreciate all the nuances, but for most fields, a sufficiently motivated smart person attacking reduced subset can get you enough proof points to hire experts.pic.twitter.com/jY1AuZ031s
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Another way to phrase this is "Domain expertise is certainly important in X, but the set of problems it will help you with will kill you far later than the 73 things which are already set up to kill you." (Contrary examples are the rare "Passed 73 gates; forgot 74th" variety.)
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