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Mar 07 2006

Now we are 1.

Posted by Dave at 8:30 am

Today is March 7th 2006. Not an auspicious day you might think, but you'd be (slightly) wrong. 1 year ago today, there was a small earthquake in world of financial services as Zopa launched into an unexpecting world. Despite lots of doubters, challenges and teething troubles, it's now 1 year on, we're still here...and stronger than ever! Just to look back briefly (We prefer to look ahead on the whole), this is how the BBC reported on our launch, and earlier the same day, we'd got front page coverage in the Daily Telegraph! A year later, and we're still generating plenty of discussion (The Guardian wrote about us just last weekend), we've got over 50,000 registered members, we're over on the West Coast of the US with a funded team looking to launch in Q2 and the UK business is looking great - and I just wanted to say 'Thanks'. Thanks to the Zopa team that built this fantastic company, thanks to everyone who's worked with us over these last 12 months, thanks to those that are working, and will work, with us in America...and thanks to our members - as the cliche goes...we couldn't have done it without you. Happy Birthday Zopa - may this be the first of many.
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6 comments

Martin

Posted on March 7th, 2006 at 10:28 am

Congratulations and Happy Birthday to all at Zopa.

Being new to Zopa as a lender it has taken me a while to understand how it works and navigate the Web site.
As commented by Victor in the Guardian article the site is not innate in its layout or use.
There needs to be more work to attract a broad base of maybe less webwise people.

Makes for interesting watching as my money moves around the various loan stages.

Regards
Martin

Connor

Posted on March 9th, 2006 at 12:05 am

Many Happy Returns!! (Pardon the Pun).

I hope you continue to grow and make todays banks and building societies take note.

Hopefully in the future all financial institutions will trade ethically instead of aggressively.

Best Wishes

Connor

Kim

Posted on March 10th, 2006 at 5:39 pm

Damn, I was hoping to use the many happy returns line…

Well I’ll just have to say Happy Birthday then. Here’s to the next year, and the next, and the next…

K

Richard Mclaren

Posted on March 10th, 2006 at 11:17 pm

egg-travagant entertainment re March’s newsletter….what a team of egg-cellence..Ricky

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