Taavet Hinrikus

Taavet Hinrikus

Co-founder of Wise. Prior to starting Wise, Taavet was director of strategy at Skype, where he’d started as its first employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet has acted as adviser to the Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda, one of the European Commission’s High Level Group of Innovators and a member of the WEF’s Europe Policy Group. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; his investments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Cleo.

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Life beyond Wise

Over a decade ago, Kristo and I were outraged by the sky-high fees banks charged us to transfer money between the UK and Estonia. So we started a Skype chat...

Taavet Hinrikus
09.12.21 2 minute read

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