Interview

July 5, 2023

N26’s longest-standing employee steps down

Chief growth officer Alex Weber is stepping down to rest and reflect after 10 years at the German neobank

Like many naive startup joiners, Alexander Weber’s first day at a startup wasn’t exactly what he expected.

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A photo of Weber and N26 cofounder Valentin Stalf working at a laptop
A young Weber (right) with N26 cofounder Valentin Stalf
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a photograph of Weber drilling the legs onto a desk in N26's first office
Weber building his desk in N26's first office
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N26 cofounder Maximilian Tayenthal, Alex Weber and Markus Gunter, former MD of N26, on the day they submitted their application to become a fully licensed bank
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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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