Jaan Tallinn Net Worth, Income, Salary, Earnings, Biography

Originally from Tallinn, Jaan Tallinn (born 14 February 1972) is an Estonian programmer who was a member of the Skype development team in 2002 and the FastTrack/Kazaa file-sharing application development team in 2000.

Jaan Tallinn is a partner and co-founder of the game production firm Bluemoon, which is responsible for the game SkyRoads, which was developed by the company. His thesis on interstellar transport via warps in space-time was accepted for publication by the University of Tartu in 1996, and he graduated with a BSc in Theoretical Physics from the University of Tartu in 1996. Tallinn is a member of the Lifeboat Foundation’s advisory board and a previous member of the Estonian President’s Academic Advisory Board. 

He lives in Tallinn with his family. His other accomplishments include being one of the three original founders of both the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and the Future of Life Institute, as well as being a co-founder of the customised medical research firm MetaMed. Tallinn contributed $364,000 to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, which is located in California. The study of existential risk is something that he is passionate about, as shown by his many presentations on the subject.

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