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From IT developer at 18 to CTO in the US at 22. The story of a programmer from a little town in Ukraine

Yev Rachkovan grew up in a small town in the Cherkasy region, Ukraine, and has already had an eventful career for a 22-year-old guy. At the age of 18, he worked as a full-stack developer at a Ukrainian IT company,

Ukraine has millions of tons of lithium. Why is it not being mined?

Lithium is sometimes called “white gold” because it has become critical for several economic sectors. One of its leading suppliers in the world is China, and it is needed, among other things, for the manufacture of lithium batteries, which in

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense launches Accelerator of Innovative Development. Its coordinator is Loboyko, mentioned in Tim Draper’s book

On June 9, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced the creation of another military accelerator. It is called the Accelerator of Innovative Development. It shall be a “permanent advisory body designed to organize and implement projects in the field of scientific

How massive layoffs affect CEE big tech and startup ecosystem — overview

Global job cuts continue to reach new heights. The number of tech layoffs in Q1 2023 has already surpassed the whole of 2022, with 165,622 tech specialists fired globally and more than 40,000 in Europe. Due to economic and geopolitical