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Taavet Hinrikus
Estonian
Born:
1981
Business
People
Technology
Think
World
You
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To be a global business, you need access to the best talent from around the world - fix this, everything else falls into place. Whether it's homegrown or imported, we don't mind where it comes from - we just want the best.
Taavet Hinrikus
Best
You
Business
World
Mind
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Talent
Global
Around
Access
Imported
Falls
Fix
Just
Where
Want
Whether
Place
Homegrown
Need
International money transfer is a massive consumer rip-off. Banks and companies like Western Union have gotten away with it for too long.
Taavet Hinrikus
Money
Long
Too
Rip-Off
Consumer
Like
Massive
Gotten
Western
Banks
Transfer
Union
Companies
International
Away
While in two very different sectors, both Skype and TransferWise were born out of frustration.
Taavet Hinrikus
Frustration
Sectors
Out
Born
Both
Were
Very
Different
While
Skype
Two
'Big' problems are overwhelming, but when we distil them down to their simplest forms, then the solutions become simple, too.
Taavet Hinrikus
Simple
Problems
Big
Become
Overwhelming
Down
Too
Solutions
Simplest
Big Problems
Forms
Them
Then
Without immigration, nations would stagnate. It is key for innovation and for economic growth.
Taavet Hinrikus
Innovation
Key
Immigration
Would
Economic
Economic Growth
Without
Nations
Growth
Creating a new country from scratch has given Estonia the license to imagine what a country could be.
Taavet Hinrikus
Country
License
Given
Could
New
Scratch
Estonia
Creating
Imagine
Financial services have always been about trust. Perhaps the biggest barrier to entry has been getting new customers to trust an unknown brand or service, and that's particularly true with digital disruptors who lack a physical presence on the local high street.
Taavet Hinrikus
Service
Trust
Financial
Digital
Unknown
Local
Financial Services
Has-Been
High
Physical
About
Entry
True
New
Perhaps
Particularly
Always
Been
Brand
Getting
Lack
Biggest
Customers
Who
Barrier
Street
Presence
Services
The growth of FinTech has been driven by adoption across age groups, but the demand from the millennial generation to innovate and think about financial services differently has been a catalyst for change.
Taavet Hinrikus
Change
Age
Generation
Financial
Think
Innovate
Financial Services
Has-Been
About
Adoption
Driven
Catalyst
Demand
Been
Across
Groups
Differently
Growth
Services
There's most definitely a Davos bubble. You're in a small Alpine town that, for just four days in January, sees its population tripled with world leaders, CEOs, media, police, the army... and a whole bunch of people who aren't invited but just come to hang out.
Taavet Hinrikus
You
Army
People
World
Police
Definitely
Out
Sees
Small
Bubble
Leaders
Invited
Days
Town
Come
Most
Bunch
Hang
Just
January
CEOs
Who
Whole
Population
Media
World Leaders
Four
There's the risk of a serious case of FOMO at a place like Davos.
Taavet Hinrikus
Case
Risk
Like
Place
Serious
Companies that are natively technology-focused I would trust more than a bank.
Taavet Hinrikus
Trust
Would
More
Than
Bank
Companies
Banks are really bad when it comes to building consumer-centred products.
Taavet Hinrikus
Building
Bad
Banks
Really
Products
If the hard Brexit happens, I would assume that London wouldn't be the centre of the tech world in Europe.
Taavet Hinrikus
World
Assume
Would
London
Happens
Centre
Brexit
Hard
Europe
Tech
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