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B&P #32: Transferwise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus: “It’s healthy that some companies go out of business”
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In this episode Bits & Pretzels Editor-in-Chief Britta Weddeling talks to Taavet Hinrikus, the co-founder of London headquartered borderless cash company Transferwise, who’s a tech pioneer, an investor and business angel, just days after his company announced a 43 percent valuation jump to a valuation of 5 billion dollars after a secondary share sale. In 2003, Taavet was the first employee at Voice-over-IP platform Skype, before he decided launching Transferwise in 2011 to provide cheap cross-border transfers. In this podcast Taavet explains why he left Skype to become a founder himself and what rules have guided him since – while building Transferwise from a niche into a global platform – now serving 8 million customers, processing around 4 billion in cross-border payments each month across 54 currencies and why today you can build a global player from anywhere in the world.
More to explore: Get the latest on founders, startups & technologies in Bavaria, Austria & Switzerland as well as hands-on advice at www.bitsandpretzels.com.
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Host:
Britta Weddeling, Editor-in-Chief of Bits & Pretzels
Featuring:
Taavet Hinrikus, co-founder & chairman of TransferWise, previously built Skype as 1st employee
Production:
professional-podcasts.com (Regina Körner, Migo Fecke), Hubert Honold & Sophie Dechansreiter.
More to explore:
Visit our website: https://www.bitsandpretzels.com/podcast
Follow us: Twitter - Linkedin - Instagram - Facebook
If you like the show, please let us know by leaving a review. You can also send us feedback directly at podcast@bitsandpretzels.com.
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Manage episode 268938841 series 2645203
In this episode Bits & Pretzels Editor-in-Chief Britta Weddeling talks to Taavet Hinrikus, the co-founder of London headquartered borderless cash company Transferwise, who’s a tech pioneer, an investor and business angel, just days after his company announced a 43 percent valuation jump to a valuation of 5 billion dollars after a secondary share sale. In 2003, Taavet was the first employee at Voice-over-IP platform Skype, before he decided launching Transferwise in 2011 to provide cheap cross-border transfers. In this podcast Taavet explains why he left Skype to become a founder himself and what rules have guided him since – while building Transferwise from a niche into a global platform – now serving 8 million customers, processing around 4 billion in cross-border payments each month across 54 currencies and why today you can build a global player from anywhere in the world.
More to explore: Get the latest on founders, startups & technologies in Bavaria, Austria & Switzerland as well as hands-on advice at www.bitsandpretzels.com.
Signup for our media newsletter to get the next episode of this podcast delivered right to your inbox: www.bitsandpretzels.com/media-signup.
Host:
Britta Weddeling, Editor-in-Chief of Bits & Pretzels
Featuring:
Taavet Hinrikus, co-founder & chairman of TransferWise, previously built Skype as 1st employee
Production:
professional-podcasts.com (Regina Körner, Migo Fecke), Hubert Honold & Sophie Dechansreiter.
More to explore:
Visit our website: https://www.bitsandpretzels.com/podcast
Follow us: Twitter - Linkedin - Instagram - Facebook
If you like the show, please let us know by leaving a review. You can also send us feedback directly at podcast@bitsandpretzels.com.
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