Episode 5: Taavet Hinrikus — Digital Regulation — David Davis: genius or fool?

EU Confidential

POLITICO

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.4 • 175 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This week Mark Scott, POLITICO Europe's new chief technology correspondent, talks to us about the trends he sees as tech companies deal with the reality that their libertarian early days are coming to an end and regulators confront them in the name of protecting citizens' and national interests. Taavet Hinrikus, the Estonian member of the 2016 POLITICO 28 list who helped build Skype and went on to found and run TransferWise, is our main interview guest. Hinrikus explains how he sees the future of banking, gives advice on how to found your own start-up, tells us about living life out of a backpack, and why he might be thrown out of the U.K. because of Brexit. Our Brussels brains trust, Lina Aburous and Ailbhe Finn, give their radically different takes on David Davis' performance at this week's Brexit negotiations in Brussels. Is he a genius or a fool? You decide. And in our Dear Politico section we hear from a listener with an extraordinary allegation: he says he's an assistant to an MEP who has asked him for a €1,000 a month slice of his salary as the price for keeping the job. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	It's that time of the year.
0:02.3	Your vacation is coming up.
0:04.7	You can already hear the beach waves, feel the warm breeze, relax, and think about work.
0:13.4	You really, really want it all to work out while you're away.
0:16.6	Monday.com gives you and the team that peace of mind.
0:19.4	When all work is on one platform and everyone's in sync, things just flow.
0:23.7	Wherever you are, tap the banner to go to Monday.com.
0:30.1	This season, Instacart has your back-to-school.
0:34.2	As in, they've got your back-to-school lunch favorites like snack packs and fresh fruit. And they've got your back to school lunch favorites like snack packs and fresh fruit.
0:39.4	And they've got your back to school supplies like backpacks, binders, and pencils. And they've
0:45.8	got your back when your kid casually tells you they have a huge school project due tomorrow.
0:52.2	Let's face it, we were all that kid. So first, call your parents to say I'm
0:57.9	sorry, and then download the Instacart app to get delivery in as fast as 30 minutes all school
1:04.2	year long. Get a $0 delivery fee with your first three orders while supplies last. Minimum $10 in order, additional terms apply.
1:17.3	Hey everyone. Welcome back to EU Confidential, the EU Politics Podcast. We've got another great
1:25.4	episode for you this week. We're slowing down here in Brussels, but we're going to keep going strong with the podcast. We've got another great episode for you this week. We're slowing down here in Brussels,
1:28.9	but we're going to keep going strong with the podcast. I wanted to thank you for your support,
1:33.3	and I hope that you can go ahead and review us or rate us wherever you found this podcast,
1:38.2	and to keep sharing it with your friends and your colleagues. First up, we're talking to Mark Scott,
1:43.2	who's Politico's new chief technology correspondent.
1:46.2	We're going to talk to him about the dynamic in the tech world now, where these tech
1:51.4	titans are having to confront the reality of regulation, that it's not the Wild West anymore.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from POLITICO, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of POLITICO and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.