How Cleo Reached $400M ARR: Barney Hussey-Yeo on AI, Growth, and Building a Consumer Fintech Unicorn
About this episode
Barney Hussey-Yeo discusses the journey of building Cleo, an AI financial assistant, and its growth to $400M ARR.
What does it take to build an AI company a decade before the world realises AI is the future? In this episode of Riding Unicorns, James and Hector sit down with Barney Hussey-Yeo, Founder & CEO of Cleo, the AI financial assistant helping millions of consumers make smarter money decisions. Barney started building Cleo years before ChatGPT brought AI into the mainstream. Today, Cleo has grown into one of the UK's leading fintech success stories, reaching $400M ARR and becoming a category-de...
People in this episode
Hosts: James, Hector
Guest: Barney Hussey-Yeo
Topics covered
- AI
- fintech
- consumer finance
- entrepreneurship
- growth
- venture capital
Keywords
- Cleo
- AI company
- financial assistant
- fintech unicorn
- growth
- consumer decisions
- Barney Hussey-Yeo
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Cleo, Riding Unicorns, ChatGPT
Places: UK
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