At 19, an Estonian borrowed €5,000 from his family and recruited Tallinn taxi drivers face-to-face for an app he had built because the city’s taxis were unreliable; twelve years later the company took €2.27 billion in revenue in more than 50 countries and posted its first annual profit — €920,000, a margin of four hundredths of one percentSeptember 26, 2026
At 19, an Estonian borrowed €5,000 from his family and recruited Tallinn taxi drivers face-to-face for an app he had built because the city’s taxis were unreliable; twelve years later the company took €2.27 billion in revenue in more than 50 countries and posted its first annual profit — €920,000, a margin of four hundredths of one percent Startups September 26, 2026 Markus Villig was 19 in 2013, contemporary out of highschool in Tallinn, and pissed off with how laborious it was…
