Taavet Hinrikus Biography

The co-founder of the global money transfer website TransferWise is Taavet Hinrikus. The company eliminates all typical banking costs and gives the general public access to the actual mid-market exchange rate. It just levies a small, completely transparent service fee. Since its debut two years ago, the company has moved more than £1 billion in client funds and raised $33 million from investors, including PayPal co-founders Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Richard Branson. Before founding TransferWise, Taavet served as Skype's director of strategy from its very first employee until 2008. In addition, he serves as an angel investor and counselor to the startup community. Among the companies he has invested in are Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Betaworks, Farmeron, and Teleport. Taavet oversees marketing and product development at TransferWise.

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