Nearly three months into the war, Ukraine’s tech community is trying to rebound within a conflict zone.
. Investment in the country’s start-up sector increased tenfold, from $39 million in 2014 to $509 million in 2019.But in late February, when Russia invaded Ukraine, the momentum came to a halt. Tech workers went from stressing over client deadlines to worrying about where to relocate their families. Companies funneled portions of their revenue to workers who needed money to get somewhere safe.
Since then, her company has had to adapt constantly. In the first few weeks after the invasion, customers understood her team was busy staying alive, but pretty soon the deadlines for international clients came roaring back, she said. Employees started regularly recording videos to explain what projects they were doing and who their clients were. That way, Mysko said, if an employee was stuck in a bomb shelter without Internet, was called to fight on the front lines or had to flee a dangerous situation in a moment’s notice, another teammate could pick up their workload.“We’ve started to understand that we cannot be in a safe place in Ukraine — it’s simply impossible,” she said.
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