#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 Subscribe to Joy of Finland newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/71f82ff8e623/joy-of-finland Follow Matthews Joy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewsjoy/ Follow Duleepa Wijayawardhana on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/duleepa/  Follow Joy of Finland on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@joy_of_finland Follow Joy of Finland on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@joyoffinland Follow Joy of Finland on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joyoffinland/Follow Joy of Finland on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/joy-of-finland/