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I did an MBA because when I left Skype, I didn't have a clear idea of whether I wanted to create or join a company. But you don't need an MBA to become an entrepreneur.
- Taavet Hinrikus
#Clear
#Company
#Create
#Join
#Need
I was in my early 20s when Estonia joined the E.U. For a kid who'd grown up in the Soviet Union, it seemed like my country had come of age. For a country that had been isolated and cut off from the rest of the world, it seemed like we were becoming part of the global community. It opened a whole new world of possibility.
- Taavet Hinrikus
#Age
#Community
#Country
#Rest
#World
The attitude to failure is one of the characteristics that's often called out as the difference between the U.S. and Europe. And we do need to be less risk-averse, more embracing of failure. Having failed makes you look bad in Europe. But in the U.S., it makes you look experienced.
- Taavet Hinrikus
#Attitude
#Bad
#Difference
#Failure
#Look
Talent is a complex subject: from the education our kids get in kindergarten and beyond to the re-skilling of some parts of the workforce; from the opportunities available for research to how we attract the best people to work in our companies.
- Taavet Hinrikus
#Best
#Education
#Research
#Talent
#Work
Historically, people have flocked to Silicon Valley because of the belief that that's where the latest innovation is happening. It's a snowball effect.
- Taavet Hinrikus
#Belief
#Innovation
#People
#Valley
Securing and attracting the best talent is an obsession in the tech industry for good reason. It's your main asset; it's your edge.
- Taavet Hinrikus
#Best
#Good
#Obsession
#Reason
#Talent
While in two very different sectors, both Skype and TransferWise were born out of frustration.
- Taavet Hinrikus
#Born
#Different
#Frustration
#Skype
#Two
Most of my time at Skype was spent doing new things.
- Taavet Hinrikus
#Doing
#My Time
#New Things
#New
#Time
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
#Business
#Mind
#Talent
#World
There are so many instances in banking where 'free' simply doesn't mean free, whether it's opaque overdraft charges or credit card providers that are quietly raising interest rates without customers noticing.
- Taavet Hinrikus
#Banking
#Credit
#Free
#Interest
#Mean
Bitcoin and the whole discussion around it shows how big a need there is for innovation about what money is and how it is stored.
- Taavet Hinrikus
#Bitcoin
#Discussion
#Innovation
#Money
If we think about how long Google spent searching - I think they came around in '98? And, OK, Gmail came in 2004, but it was literally built by one engineer as a 20%-time project. It was probably 10 years before Google started diversifying.
- Taavet Hinrikus
#Google
#How
#Long
#Project
#Searching
Creating a new country from scratch has given Estonia the license to imagine what a country could be.
- Taavet Hinrikus
#Country
#Creating
#Imagine
#License
#New
A seed depends on a whole host of factors to grow - from the fertility of the soil to the right mix of rain and sun to not being eaten by a passing bird. The same goes for an idea. For an idea to really take hold, other factors come into play, from timing to the emerging technology that makes it possible.
- Taavet Hinrikus
#Bird
#Grow
#Rain
#Sun
#Technology
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
#Digital
#Service
#Street
#True
#Trust
People bought bitcoin because they thought it would be worth more tomorrow. And a lot of people got lucky. But we're not seeing real people use bitcoin. And we don't know what problem it solves. Now, blockchain, I think, is a genius advancement in technology.
- Taavet Hinrikus
#Bitcoin
#Genius
#Technology
#Tomorrow
Scaling a business at speed can feel like an out of control roller-coaster.
- Taavet Hinrikus
#Business
#Control
#Feel
#Like
#Speed
The world is getting smaller thanks to technology.
- Taavet Hinrikus
#Getting
#Technology
#Thanks
#World
As technology progresses, I believe that fintech will fundamentally change finance.
- Taavet Hinrikus
#Believe
#Change
#Finance
#Technology
Traditional consumer finance has been unfair for decades. Banks have had a monopoly on financial services and have been able to overcharge and underserve consumers.
- Taavet Hinrikus
#Consumer
#Finance
#Financial
#Monopoly
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