Taavet Hinrikus

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Taavet Hinrikus is the co-founder, former CEO, and former Chairman of cross-border payments company Wise, having previously been Skype's first employee. He is currently an early-stage venture capitalist and partner at Plural, as well as a prolific angel investor.

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The record, in short

What the tape says about how Taavet argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

How they sound: speaking style how? →

265 words/min while actually speaking · 15.3 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Taavet Hinrikus: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,338 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

What they said0 What others said11 Episodes0

Everything Taavet Hinrikus said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

The other half of the tape: Taavet Hinrikus's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 8 times in 2 episodes on the a16z Podcast. 3 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Michael Copeland 5 Reshma Sohoni 2 Shaq (Shakil Khan) 1

Statements about Taavet Hinrikus, by other people (3)

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Hinrikus: The UK leads the US in fintech traction and regulation

“Fintech probably has more kind of traction and more companies in UK, but, and I think that, you know, and regulation is, is slightly better in UK as well.”

Tavit Henrikos Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:00 a16z Podcast | When Banking Works Like My Smartphone

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Hinrikus: Emerging markets will skip desktop banking for mobile-first finance

“So what happens in China or India or Africa, I think could actually be, you know, even, even more change, you know, Kind of like, you know in a way, let's say, we'll jump over the old internet and go purely mobile, and the ways that will deliver services is pr…”

Tavit Henrikos Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:22 a16z Podcast | When Banking Works Like My Smartphone

Disclosure

Hinrikus: Consumer banking attitudes do not vary significantly by age

“If we look at the research and one of the things which was somewhat surprising to us was that the views don't differ that much based on age.”

Tavit Henrikos Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 20:28 a16z Podcast | When Banking Works Like My Smartphone

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2019 8 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode