Cofounding Engineer of Skype Became Shipitwise Advisor

Viktorija Vysockaja
Speys
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2 min readApr 18, 2017

A week ago, Shipitwise extended family became bigger. Jaan Tallinn — founding engineer of Skype, programmer, investor and physicist became a member of Shipitwise Advisory Board. Additionally, he supported us by investing in the company.

More about Jaan

Jaan Tallinn — Cofounding engineer of Skype, Shipitwise Advisor and Investor

He is considered to be one of the foremost experts on P2P technologies and worked out the core elements for Kazaa and Skype together with colleagues. He continues to be involved with Skype, where he’s one of the lead system architects
Jaan holds a degree in theoretical physics from the University of Tartu.
Currently, he serves as CTO of MetaMed Research LLC, and also a co-founder of the Cambridge Project of Existential Risk.

We are thrilled that Jaan believed in Shipitwise vision and decided to support it. Now we have one more adviser to support us not just financially, but with all his knowledge, experience and connections.

Shipitwise is making travelling very comfortable. It provides travellers a new online service — convenient cross-border, door-to-door courier delivery for their sports equipment (golf bags, skis, bicycles, etc.), personal belongings or everything necessary for a business trip (trade fair materials, samples, etc.) to the desired destination with just a few clicks. Without having to carry anything themselves.

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