BREAKING: OpenAI paid its London staff a WHOPPING £2.3m EACH last year! OpenAI UK Ltd has just filed its 2025 accounts at Companies House: 🚀 £2,318,181 average package per employee 🚀 £87.4m in salaries + £167.8m in shares 🚀 Just 110 employees on average 🚀 ~£794k average cash salary alone And that’s not all.... The average package MORE THAN DOUBLED from £1.1m in 2024. That’s 58x the UK median full-time salary. Roughly £1,000 an hour before tax! The London business is FLYING too: 🚀 £293m turnover (more than tripled YoY) 🚀 £20.3m profit London is now OpenAI’s largest research hub outside the US, and it’s moving into a new King’s Cross HQ built for 500+ people, right next door to Google DeepMind. The AI talent war is INSANE right now. And London is right in the middle of it. Crazy stuff

BREAKING: @jeeves_inc has raised a WHOPPING $110m to build the stablecoin-native bank for global enterprises! The company, founded by @thazhmon, gives businesses operating across multiple countries cards, payables, treasury and spend management on one stack, now running on stablecoin rails that settle in minutes instead of days. The numbers are FLYING: 🚀 $5bn+ annualised total platform volume (3x YoY) 🚀 Stablecoin volume went from practically zero to $1.5bn annualised in just 8 months 🚀 Stablecoin card expanding from 25 to 35 countries 🚀 New Madrid office to push deeper into Europe The round was led by CoinFund, with a16z, Coinbase Ventures, AllianceBernstein, GIC, CRV, Vista, Wintermute, Y Combinator and more joining. And that's not all.... Alongside the raise, Jeeves is launching its own stablecoin wallet with instant payouts to 190 countries, a global AI spend tracking product and an accounts receivable module, with AI agents handling reconciliation. LETS GO - amazing news. We had Dileep on the pod recently, where he opened up about: 🚀 His journey building Jeeves from day one into a global financial operating system 🚀 The fintech opportunities he's most excited about right now Some brilliant insights in there, well worth a listen. Link below. Amazing news, congrats Dileep and the whole Jeeves team! 👏

From a small apartment in Northern England to a $6bn IPO bid 🚀 @blockchain is gearing up for a $500m US IPO before the end of 2026, targeting a WHOPPING $4bn to $6bn valuation! The company, co-founded by @OneMorePeter , @niccary and @benjreev, started out tracking Bitcoin transactions and has since built a full crypto platform: wallet, exchange, trading and lending, all run out of London. Here's what we know: 🚀 Raising ~$500m in the IPO 🚀 $4bn to $6bn target valuation 🚀 Adjusted profits for the past 3 years 🚀 $537m in total equity funding raised to date It confidentially filed its draft S-1 with the SEC back in May. Now, with Bitcoin rebounding from its July lows, it's telling investors it wants to list THIS year. The target is well below the $14bn valuation it hit in 2022. But a profitable crypto company going public after a quiet 2026 for listings? That's a BIG test for the market, following Circle, Gemini and Bullish in 2025. A few weeks ago, Nicolas Cary joined us on the Work in Fintech podcast and shared the journey of starting the company in a small apartment in Northern England and building it into a business now eyeing a $6bn valuation. What a journey! LETS GO 🚀 Congrats Peter, Nick and the whole Blockchain.com team!

How the US tackled a post-war employment crisis In 1944, the US government faced a problem that hadn't happened yet. World War II was still ongoing. But American leaders knew that, once the war ended, 15 million soldiers would return home and enter the workforce. That meant millions of people looking for jobs at the same time. A massive employment and economic shock was coming. So the government asked a question: What if we prepare for the problem before it arrives? Their answer was the GI Bill. The program provided returning veterans with access to: → College education → Housing loans → Financial stipends → Medical support The goal was to help millions of soldiers transition into civilian life, acquire new skills, and re-enter the economy. According to @AGraylin, this forward-looking approach offers a lesson for the AI era. Because the next workforce disruption could be much larger. He argues that AI could affect tens of millions of white-collar workers in the US and potentially billions of people worldwide. So the question is: Will governments prepare for AI displacement before it happens, or wait until the disruption is already here? Should we be thinking about a new GI Bill for the age of AI? Hear more from Alvin Wang Graylin on the Work in Fintech Podcast. Link Below

The Future of Work: Which Jobs Become More Valuable? In our conversation, @AGraylin shared a thought-provoking perspective: the next wave of jobs may shift toward roles built around human connection, trust, care, and relationships. Because when AI can handle what’s data-driven, what remains uniquely valuable may be what makes us human. Watch the full conversation Link below.

What’s next for @blockchain.com As co-founder @niccary shared on our podcast, the goal is to build a critical piece of infrastructure for the digital asset ecosystem. After 15 years in the space, Blockchain.com is helping people buy their first Bitcoin, hold digital dollars or digital pounds, earn yield and explore other digital assets. Nicolas also highlights how users can access US equities through the DeFi wallet. On the institutional side, Blockchain.com works with crypto institutions and market makers, helps bring projects to market, and provides advisory and custody services. The ambition? To build a legacy, world-shaping business and brand that serves its clients. Watch the full conversation, link below.