{"id":417031,"date":"2022-03-16T20:17:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T17:17:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-03-16T20:17:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T17:17:32","slug":"meet-the-tech-entrepreneurs-ditching-silicon-valley-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/meet-the-tech-entrepreneurs-ditching-silicon-valley-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"#Meet the tech entrepreneurs ditching Silicon Valley for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a39c8002fc20\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a39c8002fc20\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/meet-the-tech-entrepreneurs-ditching-silicon-valley-for-ukraine\/#%E2%80%9CMeet_the_tech_entrepreneurs_ditching_Silicon_Valley_for_Ukraine%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Meet the tech entrepreneurs ditching Silicon Valley for Ukraine&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CMeet_the_tech_entrepreneurs_ditching_Silicon_Valley_for_Ukraine%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Meet the tech entrepreneurs ditching Silicon Valley for Ukraine&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Several tech entrepreneurs have left the US for Ukraine, where they\u2019re supplying troops, helping civilians evacuate and gathering material for blog posts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Antonio Garc\u00eda Mart\u00ednez, a writer and former employee of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>le who lives in Nevada, crossed the border from Poland into Ukraine on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Garc\u00eda Mart\u00ednez spent four days in the western section of the country including the city of Lviv, where he tweeted observations such as \u201cWartime Lviv is cleaner and more orderly than [San Francisco] on a good day\u201d before donating his body armor and supplies to the Ukrainian military and retuning to Poland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWestern Ukraine is not very dangerous at all,\u201d Garc\u00eda Mart\u00ednez told The Post about 20 minutes after crossing the Polish border. \u201cThere are missile strikes occasionally\u2026 but the city hasn\u2019t been hit with anything at all.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Funeral for three fallen Ukrainian soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>If you listen closely, you can hear an air raid siren going off just now. <\/p>\n<p>Nobody runs for cover. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0xXa7E3Bsi\">pic.twitter.com\/0xXa7E3Bsi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Antonio Garc\u00eda Mart\u00ednez (agm.eth) \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@antoniogm) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antoniogm\/status\/1503667958698188803?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>He said he was in Ukraine to gather material for his Substack blog and for a magazine article. He attended a funeral for several Ukrainian soldiers and considered <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ing further east along with his interpreter but decided to turn back \u201cgiven the situation in Kyiv right now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-nypost-medium-post\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"322\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Andrey-Liscovich-18.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=322\" alt=\"Andrey Lisovich\" class=\"wp-image-21545830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Andrey-Liscovich-18.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=644 644w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Andrey-Liscovich-18.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=482 483w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Andrey-Liscovich-18.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=322 322w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Andrey-Liscovich-18.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=161 161w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Andrey-Liscovich-18.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\"\/><figcaption>\u201cI could not sit idly by while horrific events were taking place in my home,\u201d former Uber executive Andrey Lisovich said. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@ukrdefensefund<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a big media hit I need to do next week so I need to be back in the US in relatively short order,\u201d added Garc\u00eda Mart\u00ednez, who previously wrote a controversial memoir about working at Facebook called \u201cChaos Monkeys.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another techie, former Uber executive Andrey Lisovich, left California for his hometown of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine after the war broke out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-nypost-medium-post\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"322\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Dwight-Crow-20.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=322\" alt=\"Dwight Crow\" class=\"wp-image-21545839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Dwight-Crow-20.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=644 644w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Dwight-Crow-20.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=483 483w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Dwight-Crow-20.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=322 322w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Dwight-Crow-20.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=161 161w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Dwight-Crow-20.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\"\/><figcaption>Tech entrepreneur Dwight Crow helped evacuate civilians near Kyiv. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Twitter\/@dwightcrow<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lisovich <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2022\/03\/14\/andrey-liscovich-create-ukraine-defense-fund-supply-civilian-soldier-russian-invasion\/\">told TMZ<\/a> he\u2019s helping coordinate supplies for the Ukrainian military including clothes, food and shoes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could not sit idly by while horrific events were taking place in my home,\u201d said Lisovich, who worked as the CEO of Uber\u2019s on-demand staffing division Uber Works until 2020. \u201cI\u2019m here because I\u2019ve seen Zelensky\u2019s willingness to fight and his courage is contagious.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Zaporizhzhia is in southeastern Ukraine, close to Russian positions to the cities of Kherson and Melitopol. It shares a name with a nearby nuclear power plant that was shelled and captured by Russian forces earlier this month. <\/p>\n<p>Lisovich, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment, told TMZ he\u2019s drafted a will on his laptop in case he\u2019s killed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A third tech entrepreneur, ex-Facebook product manager Dwight Crow, was spotted last week in the besieged Kyiv suburb of Irpin, where he was wearing a helmet and body armor as he helped evacuate civilians.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I saw the invasion, I honestly bought a plane ticket and got here as quickly as I could,\u201d Crow <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=62&amp;v=B9AdKi2YpME&amp;feature=emb_logo\">told CNN<\/a>. \u201cThis is like the biggest fight for freedom in my lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s scary, you know, when you hear the bombs going off, but at the same time there\u2019s people a lot closer to it than us and they\u2019re really the ones who are really in harm\u2019s way, we\u2019re just doing our part to get them out of here,\u201d said Crow.<\/p>\n<p>Crow, who did not respond to a request for comment, currently works as the co-founder and chairman of the board of Whisper.ai, a Sequoia Capital-backed startup that develops artificial intelligence-assisted hearing aids.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CNN reporter looks for lost mother in hard hit Irpin\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B9AdKi2YpME?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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