Belarus

“Some, like weird folks from Belarus starting to tracker and promising that it will become unicorn, and there are no, like, examples of that, and Why would you believe in that? Like, you know, like, nobody who is rational would believe in that. It's it was now …”

“When work started in 22, we had 70% of our employees in Belarus. It was more than 290% of them were located with families in several days.”

“We paused, we canceled Grammarly availability in Russia and Belarus because there was active military operations against people that we knew who are colleagues of ours in harm's way.”

“We had a colleague get arrested in Belarus because he was blogging and speaking out against the dictatorship there and things.”

“Six, and so we outsource that. Our development team is over in Belarus, and they have been with us since day one.”

“About forty-ish, I would say, are in North America. The others are India. We have a development team in Minsk, in Belarus. And we have a couple of other offshore people in Canada, as well as in Australia.”

“We've got about 90 people in Belarus. And we've got about 80 people in the U.S. Actually, to be correct, like 97 are in Belarus the last time I checked. A little over 70.”

“Belarus is fantastic for hiring engineers hundreds of outsourcing companies that you can pull from, and we've been fortunate to have our product organization in Minsk.”

“And on the contrary, it's very hard to hire for sales in Belarus. Almost impossible. I mean, the marketing and sales were illegal in the Soviet Union, and therefore that domain had a really hard time developing, you know.”

“So we have Nikita, two co-founders, CTO, CEO. They started it in Belarus. So that's where our tech team is. There's 25 devs there. And then we have, oh gosh, about 40 people in San Francisco. So sales, marketing, ops, or all here stateside.”