TL;DR: I’m a tech entrepreneur and an independent AI communicator navigating between Silicon Valley and Europe. I help people make sense of what’s actually happening in AI. I want to connect with others who are trying to understand where AI is going and what we should build next.
(You can find my views on AI in Nordic podcast and tv conversations such as Puheenaihe, Ilmiö, Aikalisä and Kulttuuricocktail. Suomen Kuvalehti, Helsingin Sanomat (HS) and Talouselämä have covered my takes on AI and my investor role at Agion, a company building AI governance infrastructure. Starting June, 2026, I also write a column on AI for HS.)
Let me share a story. It starts in 2010, when a friend from an AI startup introduced me to the concept of singularity.
A couple of years later, in 2014, I covered the topic – AI alignment and what if AI becomes uncontrollably smart – in Kuukausiliite (a respected long-form journalism outlet in Finland).
OpenAI did not yet exist. Sam Altman was a person I thought highly of because of his startup blog.
Then Wolt happened. My friends and I saw the physical world turn digital and founded a local commerce platform. It took off and became my next step in life.
In 2016, I was in charge of launching Wolt in Stockholm. In a tech seminar I publicly asked Eric Schmidt, then-executive chairman of Alphabet, what he thought of the premise of AI taking over, the idea that Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking were popularising. Schmidt brushed me off as he felt Musk and Hawking did not know what they were talking about. He argued we could always switch off the computers.
I found the take surprising but also had my hands full. Wolt had just raised €10M, which soon became hundreds of millions. I was busy scaling our business to follow the breakthroughs in 2017–2021.
Then, in 2022, two things happened.
First, Wolt was acquired by DoorDash for $8B in the largest acquisition deal in Finnish history.
A few months after that, OpenAI started the mainstream LLM revolution.
Everything we had learned in 100,000 years – on math and medicine, memes and political science – could now be put into use by anyone. This was thanks to a bunch of neural network layers and smart matrix calculations.
How far could we get if we kept feeding the machine and gave it access to tools?
Cut to Spring, 2026.
We’re not only dealing with world models, BCI, OpenClaw, embodied AI and chat buddies that possess the collective knowledge of the planet. We’re literally discussing if the viable long-term way forward for humans is to deeply integrate with AI.
We’re deploying thousands of agents to accelerate AI research itself and seem to be approaching an even more profound intelligence explosion. (Eric Schmidt also takes this seriously and has become one of the most fascinating voices on the topic.)
I have been diving into AI for more than three and a half years now.
Nothing gets me as energised as this. So I’ve decided to dedicate the next phase of my life to helping people see clearly what is unfolding and why it’s important.
With ten years building a tech company, a science degree and a career in journalism, I want to help us take the right turns with AI. I don’t take fees for my advisory work, which lets me say what I think and do what is right
As a first step since late 2025, I’ve met with 70+ decision-makers, AI researchers and builders from different fields in the Nordics.
I’ve also started coaching Silicon Valley startups and will spend more time in the Valley over the coming months. I aim to become a useful bridge between SV and Europe.
I’m also becoming an independent AI columnist with Helsingin Sanomat in June 2026.
We’re at the start of something that will change what it means to be human. I expect to keep refining my focus as this unfolds.