The first thing that strikes me when I meet Anne Boden in Starling's London headquarters is that we're not joined by a PR rep. In the maze of startup fiascos and constant news cycles it's become commonplace for major founders to call in disarmingly friendly, shrewd publicists to sit in on interviews.
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