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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