[4] His first business was building a website for a local estate agent, whom Blomfield charged £250 for the webpage and £3 per house to be added upon receiving instructions.

[4] The business was sold to a Canadian company for "several million dollars" upon which it was remade into Auctomatic, a power selling tool for eBay users.

[6] When GoCardless formally appointed Hiroki Takeuchi as CEO in 2013,[8] he left (keeping a "very small share" in the £50-100m valued company)[6] and moved to New York to work for dating site Grouper social club as their Head of Growth.

[4] Blomfield spent his childhood learning programming languages,[4] playing sport, and singing,[4] though he was rejected by his school choir for being tone deaf and insensitive.

[4] He spends his free time making pottery,[2] and has travelled to east Africa including Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Zanzibar.

[19] He has been critical of the Silicon Valley business environment, calling it a "dystopia" due to its "wealth inequality and the lack of provision for homelessness and mental health".

[22] He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to Improving Competition and Financial Inclusion in the Banking Sector.