“Podcast: Lincoln Quirk from Wave” by Elizabeth

For two years I had the good fortune to work at Sendwave/Wave (they were one company at the time), a company that made remittances cheap and workable in certain African countries. I am prouder of working at Wave than of the rest of my programming career combined, and a good bit of my research career as well. Every day I finished work knowing that I had helped save very poor people time and money, by making it cheaper and easier to send money home from abroad or domestically. So I was deeply excited to talk to my ex-boss and co-founder of the company, Lincoln Quirk, on this final episode of the podcast. We talk about a the details of starting a company and the economics of how remittances and mobile do enormous amounts of good while making a profit.

This is the sixth episode of my podcast [...]

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First published:

August 1st, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5sZz2qTEJDZwTdZwQ/podcast-lincoln-quirk-from-wave

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.