April 04, 2021
The developer of Angry Birds now has a major infrastructure project in his sights
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He is the developer of Angry Birds, a game that was downloaded more than 4 billion times, became a feature-length animated movie and broke new ground for mobile gaming more than a decade ago.
Now, Peter Vesterbacka is hoping to break ground of an entirely different sort. Armed with US$17 billion in Chinese money, the Finnish entrepreneur wants to build a tunnel from Finland to Estonia, in what would be one of modern Europe’s major infrastructure projects.
Talking from his office in Helsinki, Finland’s capital, the gaming mogul describes the inspiration he has drawn from Japan’s Shinkansen bullet trains and China’s high-speed rail network.
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