76. Thanks to Ukrainian IT for making our lives better

The IT Experience Podcast

We all wish that the war in Ukraine would end soon. While our ability to help is limited, we wanted to do two things.

1. Donate to Unicef in order to help the children and families affected by the war
2. Celebrate some of the brilliant Ukrainians that have created IT services and applications that billions of people use on a regular basis

Good technology enables people to do things that would otherwise be difficult or cumbersome. This is why we want to celebrate a number of Ukrainian startups that enable people in numerous different ways.

• Thanks to Ukrainian IT… we can communicate better. Ukrainian emigrant Jan Koum, one of the WhatsApp founders, made international communications accessible to anyone with an internet connection on their mobile devices.
• Thanks to Ukrainian IT… we can pay and receive money in a frictionless way across the whole globe. Ukrainian emigrant Max Levchin was one of the founders of PayPal.
• Thanks to Ukrainian IT… money management across multiple accounts and different contexts is much easier. Ukrainian co-founder Vlad Yatsenko of Revolut is originally from Mykolaiv in Ukraine.
• Thanks to Ukrainian IT… we can write and communicate digitally with fewer errors. Grammarly is founded by three Ukrainians and has the largest development office in Kyiv.
• Thanks to Ukrainian IT… people around the world can collaborate more productively using the sleek office apps from the Readdle team, who developed the award-winning SparkMail app, among others.
• Thanks to Ukrainian IT… a large number of Fortune-500 companies have better sales teams. Sales intelligence software People.ai was founded by Dnipro-born entrepreneur Oleg Roginskiy.

We also want to give kudos to Mike Sapiton, the deputy editor-in-chief at Forbes Ukraine who showcases the distinguished evolution of Ukrainian rooted companies and products, in his Twitter update. https://twitter.com/sapitonmix

The Ukrainian tech industry was growing with double digits before the war and In the midst of this dark period, we want to celebrate the brilliant minds from Ukraine. Consider donating through one of these official channels and contribute to helping the victims of the war in Ukraine.

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