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Taavet Hinrikus: The Man Who Helped Build Skype and Wise

Introduction Taavet Hinrikus is an Estonian entrepreneur and investor. He is best known for co-founding Wise, formerly TransferWise, and being Skype’s first employee. His career started in technology. Then came financial services. Today, he backs other startup founders through Plural, a European investment firm. That journey is quite something. He helped build Skype in its early years, started a money…