B&P #32: Transferwise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus: “It’s healthy that some companies go out of business”

The Fintech pioneer on Corona, how he became founder & what rules have guided him since

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.

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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.

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