How a former Uber exec is helping Ukraine push back against Russia
At the start of the war, the world waited for Russia to shut Ukraine’s internet down. But Silicon Valley-trained engineers and global digital networks are giving the smaller country an edge.
Andrey Liscovich was at home in downtown San Francisco when he saw a tweet from the American politician Marco Rubio: “The #Russian invasion of #Ukraine is now underway.”
He felt sick. The 37-year-old Ukrainian had spent most of the previous decade working far from his native country, including as chief executive officer of Uber Works, a subsidiary of the ride-booking group, before creating his own tech start-up. But Liscovich was born in Zaporizhzhia, on the border of the south-eastern Donbas region now suffering intense Russian bombardments.
Financial Times
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