Ukrainian Tech Workers in Bay Area and Abroad Mobilize High-Tech Skills to Aid War Effort

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🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Silicon Valley employs a lot of highly skilled Ukrainian tech workers. As Ukrainians globally pitch in to resist Russia’s advance, tech workers are banding together to use their skills for Ukrainian resistance and aid. We’ll check in with tech workers in the Bay Area and Ukraine who are fighting Russian propaganda and cyber efforts, handling logistics to marshal supplies and move refugees and carrying other acts of IT resistance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.6	Silicon Valley employs a lot of skilled Ukrainian tech workers. And quite a few startups have Ukrainian founders, too, most famously WhatsApp's John Kuhm.
1:09.5	As Ukrainians globally pitch in to resist Russia's advance,
1:13.3	tech workers are banding together to use their skills to aid the Ukrainian resistance.
1:18.7	We'll check in with tech workers in the Bay and Ukraine
1:21.5	who are fighting Russian propaganda and cyber efforts,
1:24.8	as well as handling logistics to martial supplies and move refugees.
1:29.1	That's coming up next after this news.
1:47.1	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:56.5	We'll be joined this morning by several members of the tech community, both in Ukraine as well as here, among the 20,000 strong Ukrainian community in the Bay.
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