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MattRob

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About MattRob

Co-founder, GoCardless

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    Nested.com | Data Engineer | London | ONSITE https://nested.com/ Data is at the heart of everything Nested does - from our customer facing automatic valuation model to the tools ou…

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    Nested.com | Software Engineer | London | ONSITE https://nested.com/ We are an ambitious new company started by founders of GoCardless and Songkick and backed by some of the world'…

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    Comment #13093146

    Nested.com | London | Onsite | Fulltime | UX & Analytics | https://nested.com/ Our product will be the source of our long-term advantage. We are looking for someone to help us unde…

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    Nested.com | London | Onsite | Fulltime. https://nested.com/ We are an ambitious new company started by founders of GoCardless and Songkick and backed by some of the world's leadin…

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    Nested.com | London | Onsite | Fulltime. https://nested.com/ We are an ambitious new company started by founders of GoCardless and Songkick and backed by some of the world's leadin…

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    Comment #4779090

    To be clear, it's not an auto-reject, it's an early warning mechanism. I see the relationship between MBAs and cluelessness as one of correlation not causation.

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    Comment #4779024

    I totally agree. As I said in the original post: "I am not trying to argue that there is no place for MBAs, or that no MBA has a clue about startups – both of those are demonstrabl…

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    I have no vendetta. It is simple pattern matching: I receive lots of applications every day. When nine out of ten that share one common characteristic (MBA), share another (no unde…

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    It's not that I won't look at any MBA but that when I do I'm watching out for particular things. When nine out of ten apps that display a particular attribute share or lack another…

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    Comment #4778926

    I actually knew this. I should have mentioned it. As I said: any argument that "no MBA has a clue about startups...[is] demonstrably untrue".

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    Comment #4778912

    Absolutely. I should have made this clearer, I've added a note in the first para of the post. The intention was not to attack any trade but to highlight a worrying misconception th…

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    Comment #4778890

    Totally agree with this

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    Comment #3461284

    Thanks Viktoras! Just drop us an email at help@gocardless.com if we can do anything to help

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    As a heads up I'm from GC but as quick responses: 1) It's little known but the protection under DD are arguably stronger than those under cc ( http://www.bacs.co.uk/bacs/businesses…