Slides from symposion Quo Vadis, Estonia, hosted by President Toomas Hendrik Ilves for the Friends of Estonia annual meeting in Tallinn, July 1st 2016.

1. Competing for Talent
in the Digital Age
Sten Tamkivi, CEO

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Modern work can be done from anywhere
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Knowledge workers are increasingly moving around
Hire, or get hired Face time with team
Escape tax & regulatory burdenReduce commute
Raise funding
Spend time with clients Live a fulfilling life
Bootstrap or extend runway
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There is no single best place for everything
Engineers
Users
Designers
Funding
Climate
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Choice for Individuals:
Move to Your Best Place to Live and Work
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Teleport Cities
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Discover your best place to live
and work among 150+ cities
around the world
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Early traction: 170,000 knowledge workers

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City Performance:
Life vs Work

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Challenge for Places:
All Governments Compete for Every Citizen
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3.5 mld
people have jobs
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1.5 mld
mobile workers
700M (45%)
knowledge workers
350M
Teleport market
232M
living abroad
680M
work remotely
(19.5% of all
workers)
665M(19%)
seeking jobs
420M(64%)
seekers willing to consider
offers abroad
Potential economic shift:
$1.75T

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Silicon Valley is fantastic, but...
Source: Atomico Source: AngelList, Teleport

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“Every high tech job creates five new jobs outside
the tech sector in a given urban area over time.”
“High tech jobs are the cause of urban area
prosperity, and doctors, lawyers, carpenters and
yoga teachers are the effect."
-- Enrico Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs

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Opportunity for Estonia:
Connect Physical and Virtual (as usual)
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Source: European Commission
100k

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7,130,000,000
World population
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100,000
Talent gap in Estonia
Being just +50% more attractive
than average is enough
350,000,000
Mobile talent in the World
= 0.028%
1,311,800
Estonian population
= 0.017%

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3.5 mld
people have jobs
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1.5 mld
mobile workers
700M (45%)
knowledge workers
350M
Teleport market
232M
living abroad
680M
work remotely
(19.5% of all
workers)
665M(19%)
seeking jobs
420M(64%)
seekers willing to consider
offers abroad
0.001317M
Immigration quota in Estonia

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100k new jobs can leverage into additional work for 500k Estonians:
+50k smart jobs by 2025 at current migration rates
+50k smart jobs still up for discussion:
2X more young Europeans?
Raising quotas?
....?

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Talent Attraction Hack of this Century:
Expand Economy with E-Residents

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Recurring Mobility Loop of the Digital Age:
Tech matches Talents with their next best
Place to build more Tech.
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