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Earn 3% interest on cash in Freetrade Plus
Brand new for Plus members
1/12/2020
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Sam Poullain
Building Freetrade
Building Freetrade
Brand new for Plus members
1/12/2020
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Sam Poullain
Building Freetrade
Freetrade Head of Engineering, Invest, Tim Drew, shares how we scale our platform using Cloud Firestore
20/11/2020
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Sam Poullain
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Freetrade Software Engineering Manager Rokey Ge shares his virtual onboarding experience.
10/11/2020
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Sam Poullain
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A big improvement to Free Share is here.
6/11/2020
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Sam Poullain
Building Freetrade
See how Freetrade compares to other brokers.
4/11/2020
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Senior Software Engineer Jimmy Thompson takes you through the three layers of the Freetrade app
2/11/2020
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Gold miners, Twinkies, McDonald's and more.
2/11/2020
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David Kimberley
Building Freetrade
A new limit of £25,000 for US stocks.
2/11/2020
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Sam Poullain
Building Freetrade
Including fixed income, investment-grade and government bonds.
2/11/2020
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Freetrade VP Product Duncan Leslie on vision, strategy and measuring success.
2/11/2020
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Duncan Leslie
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Market cap, dividend yield, and P/E ratio are here.
2/11/2020
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David Kimberley
Building Freetrade
Compare your performance against a global benchmark
2/11/2020
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David Kimberley
Building Freetrade
2/11/2020
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Viktor Nebehaj
Building Freetrade
Everything we plan to add to your app before the holidays.
1/12/2020
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Sam Poullain
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Freetrade engineer Simon Poole talks about overcoming some serverless infrastructure challenges.
2/11/2020
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David Kimberley
Building Freetrade
From Papa John's to Zambian cattle farmers, we've added a wide array of new stocks to the Freetrade universe
2/11/2020
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David Kimberley
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Freetrade Talent Sourcer, Isabelle Atunrase, shares why we should all celebrate Black History Month, and some of the ways we’re getting involved here at Freetrade.
2/11/2020
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Sam Poullain
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Our biggest addition of ETFs yet.
2/11/2020
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Alex Campbell
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Freetrade Senior Product Managers Anant Sangar and Glenn Drawbridge have been busy working on limit orders and SIPPs. Here, they chat through how use User Story Mapping.
2/11/2020
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David Kimberley
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More of what you want.
2/11/2020
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Alex Campbell
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Freetrade Senior Software Engineer Luke Smith talks about the nuts and bolts of our brokerage platform
13/11/2020
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David Kimberley
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Introducing your expanded stock universe.
11/11/2020
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Alex Campbell
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More ways to measure your portfolio performance
2/11/2020
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Sam Poullain
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It’s now even easier to add money to your Freetrade account
2/11/2020
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Sam Poullain
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Freetrade Senior Product Manager Glenn Drawbridge shares his story.
2/11/2020
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Sam Poullain
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Find out what's inside, and request your invite.
11/11/2020
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Duncan Leslie
Building Freetrade
Over 100 new stocks, including Kodak, La-Z-Boy, Tiffany & Co, and Crocs.
2/11/2020
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Amy joins Freetrade as our first Head of People.
2/11/2020
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Sam Poullain
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100 stocks inc. Avis, Tripadvisor, Goodyear, AMC Entertainment, Denny’s
2/11/2020
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David Kimberley
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The first of many additions to order types.
2/11/2020
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Sam Poullain
Building Freetrade
75 new stocks including Ericsson, Yelp, Gfinity, Youdao
2/11/2020
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Sam Poullain
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Country-specific ETFs, and stocks from Wendy’s to Columbia
2/11/2020
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Sam Poullain
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100 brand new stocks and ETFs are here
2/11/2020
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Sam Poullain
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This week's 100 new stocks and ETFs might be the best batch yet.
2/11/2020
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Sam Poullain
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Ferrari, Honda, Canadian Railway, United Airlines, Canadian banks, ETFs, and more
2/11/2020
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Sam Poullain
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You can now own a piece of Ed Sheeran
2/11/2020
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Sam Poullain
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Cannabis companies have arrived
2/11/2020
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Sam Poullain
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The former entrepreneur will be Freetrade’s non-executive director
2/11/2020
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David Kimberley
Building Freetrade
250 new US stocks have landed
2/11/2020
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Viktor Nebehaj
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You can now invest in a slice of US companies
2/11/2020
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Viktor Nebehaj
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Meet the person responsible for making Freetrade look cool
2/11/2020
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David Kimberley
Find out more about how Free Share works
You joined Freetrade at the end of last year. What made you want to work here?
I was keen to start with investing for a while, but it just seemed too complicated, and none of my friends could advise me how to get started. I ended-up investing with a robo-advisor.
Then Viktor, our CMO, reached out to me via LinkedIn as he was building the growth team, pitching the mission of Freetrade. I was blown away that such a company existed. I instantly wanted to be part of it. The role was perfect for me as well - a right mix of product and marketing.
What were you doing before you worked at Freetrade?
I was part of the growth team at Skyscanner, focusing on the growth in the UK market.
What do you do at Freetrade?
I am part of the growth team here, looking after a few areas of growth - the referral program, lifecycle communications and affiliate program, but in reality, supporting the team in all ways possible.
Can you give a (cool) example of what that means in practice?
I get to pick a list of free shares we reveal each week. 🍎
What’s been the biggest challenge since joining Freetrade?
Prioritisation. There are so many cool things we can do for our customers, but always need to face the reality of the team size and scope we can take on. This means we need to be really good at prioritising what to work on next.
What’s the most interesting thing you’ve worked on?
There are so many! Redesigning our referral program is definitely one of them, but I also love learning about our customers, so talking to our customers whether via Zoom or the in-app chat has been great too.
You are from Lithuania originally, how did you end up in London?
I came to the UK to study many years ago. I lived in Scotland for 10 years - first Glasgow, and then Edinburgh, and came to love this country. London always looked intimidating, overcrowded and expensive, but I overcame the inertia of living in Scotland and moved down south for this job. I am so glad I did!
If you had a magic wand, what is the one feature on the app that you wish you could get done instantly?
I will be very biased here, but I would love to improve our referral program - allow tracking progress of all referrals and the ability to refer many friends to make the experience of referring friends much smoother. In terms of new features, though, it would be limit orders.
Lastly, and most importantly, what was the first thing you invested in when you got Freetrade?
I bought FTSE 100 and Zoom! You can tell I was still learning about investing when I first joined.
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