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Ask HN: Brave search vs. Kagi – which one do you use?
3 points by nilanp 2y ago|4 comments
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Wise (formerly TransferWise) prospectus for IPO [pdf](lienzo.s3.amazonaws.com)
3 points by nilanp 5y ago|0 comments
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Wise (formerly TransferWise) valued at $11bn in direct listing(ft.com)
4 points by nilanp 5y ago|0 comments
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What Happened Today?(twitter.com)
1 points by nilanp 5y ago|0 comments
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Wise (formerly TransferWise) announces decision to list on the LSE(londonstockexchange.com)
5 points by nilanp 5y ago|0 comments
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Scaling from 60 to 1k people in autonomous teams(medium.com)
1 points by nilanp 6y ago|0 comments
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by nilanp 6y ago
Coverage is pretty comprehensive https://transferwise.com/ available in 59 countries (see half way down the home page) The borderless bank account seems available in a ton of countires too - https://transferwise.
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by nilanp 6y ago
Hey - if you are interested in using the TransferWise API to power your payments drop me a line: n at tranferwise dot com Nilan
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by nilanp 6y ago
Hi - we certainly do have an API at transferwise. I'm in the product team. Drop me a line at n at transferwise dot com. Nilan
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by nilanp 7y ago
TransferWise.com/borderless is a pretty neat solution to a few of the problems N26 was solving. Anyone here - tried it out ? Disclosure: Been building this for 6 years :-)
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by nilanp 7y ago
um - why hasn't anyone mentioned www.transferwise.com/borderless yet ?
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Richard Stallman Has Resigned as President of the Free Software Foundation(twitter.com)
7 points by nilanp 7y ago|2 comments
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by nilanp 7y ago
I love the watch - but its painfully tied to location - due to the lack of space inside it (US watches - don't work in Europe) - has this watch been updated ? https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/can-i-use-apple-w
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by nilanp 8y ago
Hey think this is very smart low friction way in creating a secondary market in options One question - how does this handle "bad leaver" clauses which are typical too - where the company revokes the grant ? https://www.
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by nilanp 8y ago
I'm really curious how much effort there was in building up the data set - before, training the model before you got to "music" Reading the steps feels like 9 months to a year before you got to credible music. What kept you g
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by nilanp 8y ago
TransferWise.com/borderless - Loads of account details available - US, AUS, USD, EUR - Super cheap all of the time (think revolut is cheaper for some amounts and routes) - Plastic card
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Pretty nuts how often banks (& Western Union) change their exchange rate markup(medium.com)
2 points by nilanp 8y ago|0 comments
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by nilanp 8y ago
Hey Andy — love this. But really you are developing a framework for figuring out how much time to invest in research. A couple of questions — which was prompted by your blog What situations is there no value in research ? Corrollary — are t
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by nilanp 8y ago
Jeremy – I’m a mega fan of your work. But think going deeper into this is quite fun Your post goes to the point at the heart of philsophical number theory. What does equality mean ? Yup – you got functinal equivalence, isomorphism, and temp
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The dark arts of product management(medium.com)
2 points by nilanp 9y ago|0 comments
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The dark arts of product management(medium.com)
1 points by nilanp 9y ago|0 comments
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by nilanp 9y ago
1. The problem with financial services is customers are greedy - not banks 2. The challenge in building any business - is that they always start by trying to solve a problem - but power always corrupts 1. If google’s aim was to truly or
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by nilanp 9y ago
The problem with financial services is customers are greedy - not banks 2. The challenge in building any business - is that they always start by trying to solve a problem - but power always corrupts 1. If google’s aim was to truly orga
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So you think you are data driven?(medium.com)
1 points by nilanp 9y ago|0 comments
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by nilanp 10y ago
Ha - @TransferWise... we approach this slightly differently. Most of the discussion here is about - setting to price to optimise for an objective. e.g. how to optimise for revenue, profit - or cash that you can invest in marketing. Ultimat
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by nilanp 10y ago
Hey - great questions So the reality is that - "moving money" costs - almost nothing. Think about it. The process of doing a bank to bank transfer (what transferwise does) - involves one bank in one country, crediting another ban
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by nilanp 10y ago
I'd rather that - than run like Western Union. Lol
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by nilanp 10y ago
Amazing there hasn't been a mention of TransferWise in this thread You get about 1.5% more money with them when you do a transfer. Their low cost model is driven by using automated KYC checks and the kinds of fraud models you'd ex
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by nilanp 10y ago
Amazing there hasn't been a single mention of transferwise in this thread
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My job is f*cking stressful(medium.com)
2 points by nilanp 10y ago|0 comments

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