Sampo Karjalainen is one of the original founders of Sulake

Sulake

Sulake |fuse]]") is a Finnish social entertainment company focused on online social places and games. The company's goal is to inspire playful interaction and self-expression in people by creating easy to use social online services...

 and Habbo Hotel

Habbo Hotel

Habbo is a social networking site aimed at teenagers. The website is owned and operated by Sulake Corporation. The service began in 2000 and has expanded to include 11 online communities , with users in over 150 countries. As of August 2011, over 230 million avatars have been registered...

, an online social networking video game aimed at teenagers. It has already spread to over 20 different countries, and has been running for over 10 years.

He studied literature, theoretical physics and information processing at the University of Helsinki

University of Helsinki

The University of Helsinki is a university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but was founded in the city of Turku in 1640 as The Royal Academy of Turku, at that time part of the Swedish Empire. It is the oldest and largest university in Finland with the widest range of disciplines available...

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He has a website at http://sampokarjalainen.com

Career milestones:

• 1994 To the Point
• 1998 Satama Interactive
• 2000 Ego Taivas media lab
• 2000 Sulake