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Co-founder & chairman of the international money transfer platform, previously built as 1st employee, from Estonia, adventurer, disruptor

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Joined March 2007

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    29 Jan 2017

    TransferWise. Founded by immigrants, built by immigrants, used by immigrants.

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  2. Retweeted
    Apr 23

    Suurepärane intervjuu : “Vestlus teemal, kuidas ehitada tulevikku, on alati mitu korda huvitavam kui jutt sellest, mis minevikus valesti läks või kes midagi ütles.”

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  3. Retweeted
    Apr 24

    Start your IT career at kood/Jõhvi - the 21st century coding school. Applications open April 26!

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  4. Retweeted
    Apr 22

    Esmaspäevast saab kandideerida kood/Jõhvi uude kooli õppima:

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  5. Apr 22

    Great piece by showing the legacy of ! Maybe now will answer my calls about interviewing him one day :)

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  6. Retweeted
    Apr 22

    - "I think remote work is an incredibly important part of the future but is not the one answer for everything”.

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  7. Apr 22

    Congrats on the move to :) Cant wait to see the story unfold. Only thing I cant imagine is how did break that story?

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  8. Retweeted
    Apr 14

    Read all about mammalian synthetic biology, industrial-scale cell manufacturing, and how ’s technology could create a new era of regenerative medicine . Piece by

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  9. Retweeted
    Apr 22

    NEW NATURAL - It's clear, the world loves meat. But growing animals for meat is taking its toll on our earth. That's why we're creating zero harm meat. It will be kind to animals, people and to our planet.

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  10. Apr 21

    Rooting for the whole team on this day! You are bring Eastern Europe to the world!!! MAKE EAST GREAT AGAIN

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  11. Retweeted
    Apr 20

    Saliva testing, done okay, is no less sensitive than ‘brushing your brain’ nasopharyngeal swabs and it seems, if it’s done well, picks up 10% more cases where the ghastly deep nose swab fails. Good news for us all.

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  12. Retweeted
    Apr 21

    1/ It occurred to us recently that as a VC backed tech company, we don’t have any customers as shareholders. It’s weird. 🤯 About time to change it 👇🏼

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  13. Retweeted
    Apr 20

    In 2017 we had a vision to make it easier for everyone to make video. Today we've reduced the entire video production process – cameras, actors and studios – to an API call. We're now generating 100's of hours of video every single day. Fully automated, ~zero marginal cost.

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  14. Retweeted
    Apr 19

    Perhaps one learning from Estonian unicorn industry is diversity - financial services, telecommunications, sales automation, digital identity to platform services. From the production lines of the Unicorn Factory

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  15. Retweeted
    Apr 19

    Congratulations to my colleagues on the publication of our peer reviewed CAPACITY protocol for mass events to re-open, stay open, and predict the risk to us going / measure the impact after. Anyone in the live events industry can use this. DM me for more info.

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  16. Retweeted
    Apr 19

    We've received hundreds of complaints in just a few weeks. Keep them coming 👉

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  17. Retweeted
    Apr 19

    I first wrote about more than 6 yrs ago, when it was just an ambitious local startup raising venture capital. Today I got a Moderna vaccine that will let me spend time with friends, family and colleagues again. Some VC-backed startups really do change the world.

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  18. Retweeted
    Apr 18

    who decided to call them NFTs instead of GIF Certificates???

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  19. Retweeted
    Apr 16

    Some amazing takeaways from annual letter: 1) 28% of purchases on are completed in less than 3min (!!). 2) 50% of purchases on are completed in less than 15min. 3) Research suggests going to an offline store to do the same task takes 1 hour.

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  20. Retweeted
    Apr 16

    Well this was a nice surprise in my inbox. Already a huge fan of and even more invested now. Thanks and ! :)

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  21. Apr 16

    Need some hands on marketing help for with focus on UK/Europe - anyone comes to mind?

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