#3 Duleepa Wijayawardhana, CTO of Supermetrics - Finnish Environment, History of Innovation in Finland, and Bringing People to Finland

Joy of Finland highlights Finland’s strengths and areas of improvement.

Duleepa-Wijayawardhana is the CTO of Supermetrics, one of Finland’s prominent startup success stories. Supermetrics is a data management and analysis tool for marketers.

In this episode, we discuss: 

(0:00) About me and introduction

(1:45) About Dups and how he ended up in Finland

(5:17) Clean air and environment

(6:28) History of innovation in Finland

(8:16) The importance of going global

(10:15) Significant progress from 100 years ago

(13:41) The challenges of bringing international people

(14:24) Exporting Finland’s culture around the world

(18:18) Comparing Canadian and Finnish immigration

(20:47) Why Finland needs students

(22:38) The long-term problem with making it more difficult to come to Finland

(24:36) Why students leave Finland and language requirements

(28:47) What’s needed for an inclusive, diverse, and amazing society

(30:15) Advice for people coming to Finland

(31:09) Where to Find Dups

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