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Starling Bank founder Anne Boden: ‘People used to laugh at me’

‘Stop criticising women for either being too soft or too hard’ neobank founder says

Boden talks to FN ahead of International Women's Day on 8 March
Boden talks to FN ahead of International Women's Day on 8 March

Anne Boden, the founder of Starling Bank, said people didn’t take her seriously when she began her entrepreneurial journey.

“When I started raising money for Starling, I was a middle-aged, 5-ft tall Welsh woman and people used to laugh at me. People didn’t think that somebody of my sort of experience and a woman could be a technologist,” Boden told Financial News.

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