Wise, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Wise comes up
Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Databricks at $100BN, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Bet & Nubank’s $2.5B Profit Shocker - Ep.19 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:09 unnamed speaker Like, I'm, I'm not a revenue user, I'm a TransferWise user when I'm sending money back to Ireland.
Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:01 Harry Stebbings We've had Deliveroo bought by the Americans, so taken off the London Stock Exchange, and this week we had Wise, TransferWise otherwise known, announce that they're gonna also list on the US. 3 times in the scene
20VC: The Science of Storytelling: Three Steps to Master the Perfect Story | From Near Death Experience to Unicorn Startup: The Untold Story of Omaze with Matt Pohlson
- ▶ 58:58 Harry Stebbings You know, one of the best things about, you know, the startup team 10 years ago, well, 1213 years ago was Revolut, Monzo, Transferwise.
Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04 Taavet Hinrikus And I think, you know, through the years of building, building wise and still working at Skype, I was like, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:25 Taavet Hinrikus You know, we got in the seed round, we got Max Levchin when we were raising money for Transferwise, as it was called before, Beforewise. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:11 Taavet Hinrikus I am very proud of the fact that when, when we built Wise, everybody had stock options, including every customer support agent. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:47 Taavet Hinrikus I mean, if I look at, you know, maybe, maybe looking back now, Wise now looks like a simple fintech company. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:48 Taavet Hinrikus You know, which I think is BS, you know, something that hasn't been spoken widely, even so wise supposedly raised a shit ton of money. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:14 Taavet Hinrikus Yes, in certain sectors which are deemed hot, you know, 20, 21, if you were an ex wise employee, everybody would write a check to you without even meeting you.
- ▶ 55:25 Taavet Hinrikus I think Wise is an example of a company that is well known amongst the investor universe that can go public anywhere. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:50 Taavet Hinrikus I have realized, I have generated liquidity through the years from wise.
- ▶ 1:00:41 Taavet Hinrikus I mean, Wise has a fair share of startups.
20Growth: Inside Kraken's $1.5BN Growth Playbook: What Works, What Doesn't and What No Founders Understand About Growth That Will Change Their Company with Mayur Gupta
- ▶ 52:48 Harry Stebbings Founder of Wise.
Julia Hoggett, CEO @ LSEG plc: The Myths and the Reality of The London Stock Exchange · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:54 Harry Stebbings Thinking of the flywheel, I'm at the beginning of the flywheel, and what concerns me most is 10 years ago or 15 years ago, whatever it was, but when TransferWise and Monza and Revolut all started, it was a great place to start a fintech…
- ▶ 28:41 Harry Stebbings Do you think WISE have done better being in the UK than they would have done if they're in the US? 2 times in the scene
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:17 Mitchell Green I've got one in TransferWise over here.
- ▶ 45:44 Mitchell Green A payments company, like, we invested in TransferWise over here.
Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:50 Peter Singlehurst So, to take an example that's close to home, Wise. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:56 Peter Singlehurst So we're still big, you know, shareholders in Affirm and, uh, and Wise.
- ▶ 53:50 Harry Stebbings You've mentioned Wise several times. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:18 Peter Singlehurst I've got an enormous amount of respect for Christo at Wise. 3 times in the scene
Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:16 Harry Stebbings 10 years ago, I remember when I started, and it was like, transfer-wise, it was Monzo, it was Revolut, and actually there was a series of kind of financial regulatory, not loopholes, but freedoms, that meant that London was a great place…
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:00 Hussein Kanji And then right after that, Tavit went public with Wise on the LSE, and I tried to talk him out of it.