This Week at YC: How Monzo Makes Money Work For Everyone

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Monzo Makes Money Work for Everyone
In a new essay by YC Continuity's Anu Hariharan and Nicolas Dardenne, read about how Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK.

📈 Top Posts on Hacker News
The Matrix Is Unreal (fxguide.com)
Log4j RCE Found (lunasec.io)
Pixel prevented me from calling 911 (reddit.com)
Groups never admit failure (nav.al)
• CT scans of AirPods evolution (scanofthemonth.com)
Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia (modernwiki.app)

💼 Jobs at YC Startups 
• SigNoz (YC W21) Is Hiring First Developer Relations Engineer
• Taktile (YC S20) Is Hiring Senior Front End Engineer (Remote in Europe)
• Banner (YC S19) (Prop-tech) is hiring a remote full-stack engineer
• Release (YC W20) Is Hiring – Senior Back End Engineer
• Emerge Tools (YC W21) Is Hiring a Senior Android Engineer – Remote

🌎 From the YC Community
How Airbnb’s nonprofit is making resettling refugees a core mission - Airbnb, W09
Y Combinator = Growth - Erik Newcomer (Newcomer)
Remore: Pioneering Mobile Carbon Capture - Remora, W21
What I Learned About People that Scale - Pedro Franceschi (Brex, W17)
How Jupe aims to build the software and hardware to house 1.5B people - Jupe, S21

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