Okay, this is Brian, and you're going to hear from my co-host Christmas scene, of course, in a second, but I want to state this very clearly again this is a unique

special episode two weeks ago a long time listener to this podcast reached out

wanted us to talk about their experience as a tech startup in Ukraine.

We're going to hear about that startup right now, Lemon.io, hearing from the founder,

Alexander Volodarski. But the listener that got in touch to make this all happen was in a bunker because

there was shelling at the time of this recording so they couldn't participate in the recording so yeah and also check

out the show notes for links given to us directly from Alexander if you want to help

the Ukrainian cause these are the links and charities and nonprofits he suggests, including those who take crypto.

Alexander Volodarski, thanks for coming on the Tech Mem Right Home experience.

Pleasure to be here.

Just let's start by telling me about Lemon. I.O. which is the company you founded.

How old is Lemon?

What does Lemon do?

Just give me a basic background on your company.

So, yeah yeah lemon I. O is a marketplace of editing engineers.

What we do is that we connect companies who are looking for engineers for engineers who are looking for work.

And what we do is we test and that we test and interview developers from one side

to make sure that they have the skills in place, the hard skills, and especially the soft skills.

The lack of soft skills is usually the biggest problem of unsuccessful projects.

Also we do the same on the client side,

so we make sure that those are projects

that are developers looking for

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