Taavet Hinrikus
Entrepreneur & Investor
Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and Chairman of Wise (formerly TransferWise), a global technology company facilitating international payments and money transfers. Previously, he was Skype’s Director of Strategy until 2008. Hinrikus is also an active investor with more than 100 technology investments.
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Changing Education
Are schools and universities keeping up with the times? Or do they need to be reinvented? If so, how? These are the core topics of this DLD Munich conversation between Gabi Zedlmayer (University…
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Europe Steps Up
How does Europe’s startup landscape differ from those in Asia and the U.S.? Taavet Hinrikus, co-founder and chairman of TransferWise, offers a unique perspective in this conversation with Ina Fried of Axios. Hinrikus…
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Are We Out of the Woods?
Europe’s leadership in creating advancements for our society has faded away in the last years. The U.S. and China are way ahead of us in using the grand opportunities that arise with the Internet and digital technologies and tend to use our...
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