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Taavet Hinrikus

15 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 8 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jul 26, 2024 by Nilan Peiris · said 5 times in 4 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Jul 26, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
Wise had zero customers when CPO Nilan Peiris first joined as advisor
“Yeah, so I met them, you'll enjoy this. I got introduced to them by an angel who I had helped previously, and he said, you gotta meet these guys. They're just two of them. They have a great product. They have no customers and they definitely need someone like …”
Nilan Peiris Jul 26, 2024 ▶ 4:04 Nilan Peiris: What Growth Hacks Worked and What Did Not, from Wise CPO | E1182 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 20, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Kanji: I tried to talk Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus out of LSE listing
“And then right after that, Tavit went public with Wise on the LSE, and I tried to talk him out of it. I said, go, go in America.”
Hussein Kanji Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 59:00 Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025
Disclosure
Taavet Hinrikus made 30 to 50 angel investments annually after Wise
“I went into overdrive once I stopped running wise, doing 30, 40, 50 deals a year.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 1:16 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025 negative
Opinion
Hinrikus: Exceptional startups rarely push hyper-fast investment timelines
“I don't see the crazy companies moving so quickly. That's the momentum spreadsheet investing, which starts moving way quicker.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 31:45 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hinrikus has been financially independent since 2002 via Skype options
“I was also lucky to make money from being the first employee at Skype from stock options. So in that sense, I've been financially Independent since 2002, three.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 58:07 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Hinrikus: It is hard to get excited about traditional enterprise SaaS
“There are many great founders building great enterprise SaaS companies, but for me personally, it's pretty hard to get excited about the good old SaaS company.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 11:25 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hinrikus: Multi-stage firms' high-volume seed strategy will fail as founders wise up
“I don't think this game will last. I think the best founders will realize that getting a check on good terms from a multistage firm is by no means a guarantee of raising money from them in the future.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 40:26 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Hinrikus: Fast-tracked personal investments in 2020-2021 resulted in big losses
“20, 20, 21, there was a lot of deals done, you know, under the gun basically. I did some myself personally, made some big losses.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 31:22 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025 negative
Opinion
Hinrikus: Regulation never prevents top entrepreneurs from starting companies
“No entrepreneur ever Has not started a company because of regulation. So best entrepreneurs say goes through walls made out of titanium to make it happen. So I think, you know, in some sense, you know, it's an excuse.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 53:55 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025
Disclosure
Hinrikus reveals he has never purchased a single public stock
“I have never bought a public stock.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 1:01:01 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Hinrikus: Wise built over $10B of value while burning $100M primary capital
“Wise only raised hundred sixty million primary capital, and we only burned through about a hundred million of primary capital. Hundred million primary capital to build in excess of ten billion of value.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 36:01 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025 negative
Insight
Hinrikus: Timeline misalignment is the main under-discussed founder-investor conflict
“Timeline misalignment. Investors wanting their money back before the founder, which is a kind of a hard one.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 20:44 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Apr 2030
Hinrikus: Median Venture Capital Returns Will Decline as the Asset Class Matures
“The best investors will continue generating best returns, but I think the median is probably gonna come down over time.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 42:06 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025
Disclosure
Hinrikus didn't sell Wise secondary shares until valuation hit billions
“Not until we were valued at billions. I didn't sell a single, single share of second secondary, but after that I've done it in a, I would say systematic way.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 57:57 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 28, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Taavet Hinrikus deployed significant liquidity into Bolt secondaries in 2017
“I spent a lot of my limited liquidity buying up secondaries in, in Bolt in like, 2017.”
Taavet Hinrikus Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 2:06 Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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