TransferWise Wants To Take Over The WorldTransferWise co-founder and CEO Taavet Hinrikus took the stage at Disrupt London to tell his company’s founding story. TransferWise has had a big year, and it looks like 2016 will be a big one, as well.
TransferWise lets you save on bank fees when you need to make international transfers between multiple bank accounts. The startup’s secret sauce is a peer-to-peer model. For instance, if you have GBP and want to send EUR, TransferWise will automatically match you with people who want GBP and give you EUR in exchange.
But it doesn’t stop here, as TransferWise is totally transparent. Making transfers takes minutes, as the company takes care of everything once you have entered all the details. But how did Hinrikus come up with TransferWise’s idea?
“During my time at Skype when I realized this problem, at one point I moved from Tallinn to London. I had to go to a bank branch every month and move my money,” he said. “I looked at my statement and wow — first of all, it takes way too long for the money to arrive, and second I realized some money was missing.”
http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/07/transferwise-wants-to-take-over-the-world/
