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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

6 years

We’ve got over 100 jobs open in 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇸🇬 🇦🇺 🇭🇺 🇪🇪 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 We’ve got jobs... ... for 👶 people ... for 🐶 people ... for 🍸 people ... for 🏄‍♂️ people ... for 👩‍🎨 people ... for #PeopleWithoutBorders

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

8 years

Only Estonians will truly appreciate this One president His daughter A VC And an estonian rap artist Note fingers

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

8 months

👰‍♀️ 🤵‍♂️ Wise + Swift - a match made in heaven ? 🌐 Swift is the messaging protocol that banks use to share metadata on international payments.

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

3 years

From: @kaarmann To:All Team Subject: What just happened ?

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

2 years

🇺🇦 our team have been working hard @Wise to keep to UAH payments live This morning we increased our limits to 2000 GBP per payment The situation remains volatile - follow @Wise for more

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

7 years

pretty awesome interview with jan koum - whatsapp founder - very humble and very russian

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

3 years

How it started. How it's going.

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

5 years

A moment of tension in the vatican... ... If the queen moves forward the bishop can take her

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

3 years

1/11 We’ve seen incredible growth @Wise over the last few years –– we’re now 2,400+ people, working in 70+ autonomous product teams 👫👫 How did we achieve this, while maintaining high NPS and keeping both our customers and our people happy?

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

9 years

My slides from #MTPCON http://t.co/3IaXXJlUsI - thanks for the feedback ! Tweet me any questions ! Hope it was useful

Product = People

Product = People - Download as a PDF or view online for free

www.slideshare.net

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

4 years

When your fam notices what you do at work 🚀 🇱🇰 🚀

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

2 years

👋🏾 Hai Tallinn 🇪🇪

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

2 years

@taavet and @kaarmann back on stage together 🎉

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

3 years

@CryptoCobain run

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

5 years

How hard would I need to slap a chicken to cook it ? 🤔🐓 3,700 MPH

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

2 years

. @8bitsboy clocked off after 8 years @Wise fuelling the revolution 🚀 The team sent this him a push notification.

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

3 years

#winning This is from my 15 year old - “the teenager”. She normally just sends me competitor ads - and says i’m a loser.

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

4 years

1st @TransferWise alumini event. Team still have an ability to finish 4 boxes of pizza in minutes. Seriously super inspiring hearing what ex-wiser's are up to. Best way to get into this exclusive group ? Join us 🎉 We're hiring

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

6 years

LIFE GOALS: When you are an iOS engineer at WWDC - and your app makes the holding screen 🚀

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

1 year

🚀 🚀 🚀 We are live with Mission Days 2023

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

3 years

T̶r̶a̶n̶s̶f̶e̶r̶Wise

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

4 years

How do TransferWise For Banks integrations happen ? Engineers talk to engineers then magic happens 🧙‍♂️🧙 From our friends @up_banking

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

5 years

G’Day from the @transferwise Melbourne office 🇦🇺. The office where we have as many dogs as people 🐶🐶🕺🏼💃🏽

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

2 years

👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫It’s been a huge week here at Wise - we’ve reached 3,000 Wisers globally ! 👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫Today, 3,000 people are helping us achieve the mission of money without borders. 👫👫👫👫👫👫👫

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

5 years

Dear 🗽 Its arrived 💳 And it's bright green 💚 We hope it will help make 🌎 a little more #borderless Which is a good thing: when money & people move freely awesome things happen We hope you enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed building it 🚀 Lotsa love ❤ @TransferWise

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

5 years

Still very slow ... but first ever 15k run ! 🏃‍♂️

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

8 years

. @NateSilver538 my hero Ultimate take down of a huffington post journo by a statistician

Nate Silver

@NateSilver538

8 years

@ryangrim : The article made clear you have **no fucking idea** what you're talking about. That's why you contract people **ahead of time**.

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

9 years

And so it begins… (spotted on a New York subway) http://t.co/t9Pv1B25un

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

3 years

📐Happy Pythagorean Theorem Day 🎉 December 16, 2020: 12² + 16² = 20² 🤓

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

3 years

Current status

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

7 years

1️⃣ Do things that can’t scale 2️⃣👂🏽to your customers 3️⃣ Surprise & delight ➡️ If your customers ask for biscuits: give them biscuits🍪🍪🍪

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

4 years

Um... did you just say that out loud ? On an earnings call ? Who says international payment pricing doesn't need fixing ? ✊

SaveOnSend

@SaveOnSend

4 years

@WesternUnion has different prices for #remittances by ethnicity, validating that ethnic stereotypes about savings & comparison shopping attitudes are true and making money from that insight at scale #CapitalismFTW #fintech #payments

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

5 years

Excited to see us enter the 1st stage of the @TransferWise mafia. Think we've had 15 companies founded by our alumini now - and some talented folk leaving for some exciting gigs. 👏🏽Wander Rutgers. #StartupCareerPaths

Stock-trading app Robinhood hires former TransferWise executive to lead UK office

Stock-trading app Robinhood has hired a former TransferWise executive to lead its London office ahead of an upcoming launch in the UK.

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

3 years

😲 Yale scientists repair injured spinal cord using patients’ own stem cells: For more than half of the patients, substantial improvements, such as ability to walk, or to use their hands, were observed within weeks of stem cell injection

Yale scientists repair injured spinal cords using patients’ own stem

Intravenous injection of bone marrow derived stem cells in patients with spinal cord injuries led to significant improvement in motor functions.

news.yale.edu

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

2 years

🇺🇦 We've published a guide re. how to use @Wise for displaced Ukrainians. (Includes details of how to open a wise account, receive money from overseas and spend money on our card 💳 ) UA: ENG:

Wise for Ukrainian refugees

This post provides a guide on how Wise can help displaced Ukrainians. Read about opening an account in another country and ordering a card.

wise.com

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

2 years

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

2 years

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

5 years

CANT STOP WATCHING

Olaf Falafel

@OFalafel

5 years

Next level prank caller

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

5 years

🎉👀 . @TransferWise most recommended product in the UK 🇬🇧 with an NPS of 82.5% (via @YouGov )

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

4 years

Reached peak swag

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

5 years

Favourite night of the year 🕺🏽💃🏻 @TransferWise xmas party

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

6 years

🎉Picked up my new @TransferWise for Business Card 🎉 👩🏼💵🔁💳🔁💶👴🏼 🚨Get yours here!🚨 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

5 years

Some dude chatting that apparently - product growth = people growth

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

3 years

Hei Eesti 🇪🇪🎉 ! It’s been too long (2 years 😱)

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

5 years

1/10 What are Mission Driven companies ? Post some of the discussion on our secondary fundraising announcement last week here’s a short thread on what being Mission Driven means : 🚀for pricing 🚀for sustainability 🚀 and for shareholders Thread: 👇🏽

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

6 years

Psst 🤫 Want to know how to get one of those ultra cool bright #green @TransferWise borderless cards that allow you to spend money internationally hassle free ? 🎉🎉🎉 Get on the invite list here 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

6 years

How do you fit 150+ people into our London office? 👦🏽👧🏾👨🏼👩🏾👴👵👦🏽 👩🏾👴👵👦🏽👧🏾👧🏾👨🏼 👧🏾👧🏾👨🏼👦🏽👨🏼👩🏾👴 👨🏼👩🏾👴👵👦🏽👧🏾👨🏼 👧🏾👧🏾👨🏼👦🏽👨🏼👩🏾👴 It's getting cosy - but we've still got space ! PS ! We hiring 🎉

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

5 years

A little piece of genius from @sarahhought0n and team in the official @transferwise Google Slide template

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

5 years

First ever 10k ! Whoop ! Cc @taavet ⁦ @sokkfinds ⁩

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

5 years

Super cool watching ⁦ @tessapettman ⁩ interviewing customers for @transferwise mission days today ! What could we do to improve our pricing ? Make it free 💪🏽

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

1 year

📣 Next Wednesday is @wise Connect. Wise Platform's flagship conference. 🤖 (Wise Platform is how we take the infrastructure we've spent over a decade building and embed it directly in the platforms and banks that consumers and businesses use every day.) 👫 We've assembled

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

2 years

👀

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

5 years

Latest in my series that (some) #ScienceIsAFarce A wonderfully clear post from @skdh (my new heroine after listening to ) On how dark matter hypotheses could simply be due to badly averaging out the General Relativity equations

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

4 years

Morning 5k ! 🥶

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

2 years

Dearest @EU who in gods name thought this was a good idea for selecting the time in your "Passenger Location Form"

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

5 years

🤔 Draft copy that was left on the cutting room floor - for our product update today Theresa limit on GBP transfers today. So you May not get a strong and stable rate. To take back control of your money, please contact support

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

7 months

I'm super excited to be talking @MindtheProduct this Friday in London ! (Almost 10 years since the last time I did this !) My talk is entitled "10 years Wiser" and reflects on almost a decade of scaling @wise , Asking the hardest questions like i) Does Word of Mouth scale ?

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

4 years

TIL You know its your birthday when your teenage daughter hugs you for longer than 1 millisecond in the morning

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

5 years

Psst 🤫 Don't tell him i said this. But its kinda cool - when the founder / CEO ships a feature that should make a difference to a couple of 1000 customers a month as a summer project Thread below 👇🏽

Kristo Käärmann

@kaarmann

5 years

1/ When the ATM or a card machine abroad offers to charge you in “home currency” - it’s not being nice, it is trying to take your money. This is a shady practice called DCC. We now warn when you're tricked into it.

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

7 years

🤘🏽👏🏽 Thanks for that Growth Hacking Conference LA !! 👏🏽🤘🏽 That was intense 🔥🔥🔥 #GHConf17 Link to slides here 👉🏽

Growth hackers Conference Los Angeles USA

Growth hackers Conference Los Angeles USA - Download as a PDF or view online for free

www.slideshare.net

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

5 years

Shit just got real #brexit

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

4 years

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

6 years

Calling all Product People 📢 (Designers, Engineers, Managers + Analysts) based in London ! Join us on 21st Nov 📅 for our inaugural @TransferWise Product Talks event 💫 The Highs and Lows of HyperGrowth with Mo Kahn: Borderless Product Manager 🚀

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

8 years

The product we build is an outcome of the people we hire and the decisions they choose to make. Product = People

Mind the Product

@MindtheProduct

8 years

Video: Product = People by Nilan Peiris

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

2 years

👫 We had our first in-person board meeting Wise since the pandemic 🙌🏽 Thank you to all of our directors for attending, especially @hooilingtan David Wells and @arampell who flew in from 🌏🌎 🙏 My personal highlight was holding our first customer interview @ board meeting 🧵

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

8 years

Sign of the times. Hot this week on the @AppStore 1. @Euro2016 2. @WelshEmoji 3. @TransferWise

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

5 years

Hi Manchester ! 🌃 👋! Had a huge amount of fun at #mtpengage today ! 🚀 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾Here's my slides from today on:👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 1. Growth at Transferwise 📈 2. 5 steps to replicate this at your company / team / startup 💪🏽

Mind the Product Engage Manchester

Mind the Product Engage Manchester - Download as a PDF or view online for free

www.slideshare.net

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

7 years

20 year old joins @TransferWise Builds chatbot Eats @sokk Shares all at @ChatbotConf #CBC2017 Cc @UTammet

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

4 years

🚀 Our Annual report, summarise a years hard work in one slick output But it doesn't really capture the incredibly hard work put in by 2,200 people this year 👏 in moving this mission forward 🙏

Kristo Käärmann

@kaarmann

4 years

1/ Dear @TransferWise customers! 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Today we submitted our PwC audited annual financial report for April '19 - March '20. What is in there?

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

6 years

Why we created the @TransferWise #borderless account. In one table 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

7 years

Favourite of the week ! @TransferWise 🚀🚀🚀

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

4 years

Amazed how happy Estonians are when it snows properly

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

3 years

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

3 years

1/7 🤔People always ask me what’s the secret sauce to scaling Wise. At Wise we say we grow our impact at the rate we grow our team. How do we do that in practice? Here are a few notes from the last 7 years at Wise 👇📆

Wise

@Wise

3 years

In just ten years, we've grown to 10+ million customers sending £4.5 billion across borders every month. The secret sauce? Happy, empowered teams. @nilanp , our VP of Growth, shares how we've optimised our culture for speed of progress towards achieving Mission Zero 👇

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

8 years

How a mission driven startup goes global 600 people engaged globally in figuring out our planz 🇯🇵🇬🇸🇺🇸🇬🇧🇭🇺🇺🇦🇪🇪

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

4 years

Times are challenging. But we're still hiring; even onboarding new joiners remotely. Have a look through our jobs site... there could be a challenge for you.

Wise

@Wise

4 years

Careers without borders, for people without borders. In 2019, we reached 2,000 Wisers. This year, we hope to celebrate reaching 3,000. 🚀 Could you be one of them? Find out 👉 .

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

6 years

Don't f*ck it up

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

6 years

One of the most fun things I get to do @TransferWise is spend time with our new joiners It’s been pretty hard to figure out how to spend 30 mins with someone who’s been with us for a day usefully Our awesome on boarding team helped me figure this out HT @henrilempu

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

8 years

Moving money faster than sound

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

2 years

🙌🏽 @monzo

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

3 years

Getting papp’d

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

6 years

Did you know we had a party train at @TransferWise #SummerDays2017 #Throwback 🚂 🎉🎉🎉 🎉🎉🎉 🎉🎉🎉

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

9 years

Been getting a few qs on how we build product. Organising an open evening where PMs / engineers share experiences. Fave /RT if interested.

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

8 years

Number of banks on the revolution = 2 ✌︎ Welcome to the revolution @Number26 #14 ,598 banks to go 🌟 🌟 🌟🙀 🌟 🌟 🌟

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

8 years

Love it when @pmarca trolls @bhorowitz

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

2 years

The @wise account is now live in 🇧🇷 💳

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

6 years

Impressed how close to our customers our compliance team are. If you ring our customer support team today - you may get Ben Steyn our Head of Compliance on the phone @TransferWise

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

7 years

🚀 @TransferWise Borderless Accounts International banking done right

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

3 years

New home page in test 😍

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

3 years

📺 Can’t believe i did this talk 6 years ago👴🏾 - when we were less than 100 people. 👶🏽 Also kinda cool that a lot of it is still true This talk also contains my all time favourite slide

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

4 years

🙁

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

5 years

. @abbiedaniels managed to get a @TransferWise ad - snuck into the middle of channel 4 news last night 🎉 She also managed to get me into a suit for the shoot. 👘

Abigail Daniels

@AbbieDaniels

5 years

Spotted the one and only @nilanp chatting #Brexit on Channel 4 news this evening alongside @IndexVentures . Thanks for hearing our views @heliaebrahimi

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

2 years

5th most attractive employer in Singapore 🇸🇬 💅 And we’re hiring 🚀

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

7 years

Investing in people via @Kiva is 100 times more rewarding than the 3% return on lending platforms… @JonnyCPrice

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

9 years

You grow at the rate you solve problems. Growth is constrained by talent, intellect and culture, not marketing dollars.

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

2 years

🚀 One of the most industry defining roles in HR is up for grabs — we're on the hunt 🕵🏽‍♀️ for a Chief People Officer at @Wise . 🥳 I'm really excited about what this role will bring to Wise, and where it can take us over the next decade 👇🗓

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

2 years

Banks can now integrate @Wise to send and receive money internationally 🚀

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

3 years

People love presenting at Mission Days @TransferWise they even post when they aren't presenting

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

7 years

. @TransferWise App of the Day on the iOS 11 beta ! BOOM Apparently @TransferWise is useful for buying scorpions online and weddings 🦂 👰🏼

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Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්

@nilanp

3 years

안녕하세요 대한민국 🇰🇷 ! From today customers of Shinhan bank (the 2nd largest in S. Korea) - can enjoy the fastest, cheapest and most transparent cross border money transfers on the 🌏 via the Shinhan-Wise integration

Shinhan Bank integrates Wise Platform to bring cheaper, faster transfers to customers

Annyeonghaseyo Shinhan Bank! 🇰🇷 We’re excited to announce Shinhan Bank has integrated with our Wise Platform to bring cheaper, faster international transfers.

wise.com

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