Taavet Hinrikus

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Taavet Hinrikus is an Estonian entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and first employee of the fintech company Wise (formerly TransferWise).

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Taavet Hinrikus canonical 3
Kristo Käärmann 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf entrepreneur
human
activeYearsInBusiness 21st century
associatedWith Baltic startup ecosystem
European tech startup ecosystem
basedIn United Kingdom
boardMemberOf Wise
businessSector cross-border payments
remittances
coFounded TransferWise
Wise
coFounderWith Kristo Käärmann
countryOfCitizenship Estonia
educatedAt Tallinn University of Technology
employer TransferWise
Wise
familyName Hinrikus
fieldOfWork financial technology
fintech
startups
founded Plural Platform
gender male
givenName Taavet
hasCitizenship Estonia
hasFoundedCompanyIn Estonia
United Kingdom
hasRole angel investor
startup advisor
industry financial services
technology
knownFor being first employee of Wise
co-founding Wise
languageSpoken English
Estonian
name Taavet Hinrikus
nationality Estonian
notableAchievement helping reduce costs of international money transfers
notableWork building Wise into a global money transfer service
occupation entrepreneur
investor
positionHeld CEO of TransferWise
chief executive officer of Wise
director of strategy at Skype
previousEmployer Skype
residence London
linked to: London, England

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Wise foundedBy Taavet Hinrikus
Wise foundedBy Kristo Käärmann
linked to: Taavet Hinrikus
Taavet Hinrikus name Taavet Hinrikus
Wise founder Taavet Hinrikus
subject linked to: TransferWise