Ukraine

16 statements across 11 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Jun 4, 2017 by Oleg Campbell · said 197 times in 59 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

Mentions by year

brought up most by Nathan Latka (86), Jon Darbyshire (11), Tamara Tachinska (10), George Elfond (9), Artem Borodatyuk (8), Vlad Malinan (5), Nicolas Vandenberghe (5), Vlad Jovtenko (3)

tap a year for its mentions
00308601520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026episodesmentions
081520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026episodes it came up in
0047.581520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026episodesmentions per episode
2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2025 8 mentions in 1 episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 29 mentions in 5 episodes 6 per episode
2022 51 mentions in 13 episodes 4 per episode
2021 15 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
2020 5 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
2019 32 mentions in 9 episodes 4 per episode
2018 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
2017 41 mentions in 8 episodes 5 per episode
2016 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode

every mention, scene by scene, with the transcript →

Everything said about Ukraine, oldest first

Jun 4, 2017
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Reply.io Pays an Average of $4,000 Monthly for Ukrainian Developers
“So right now I would say we P on average, close to 4000 dollars per month for developer.”
Oleg Campbell Jun 4, 2017 ▶ 7:21 680: How to Start SaaS Company with Very little Savings, with Reply.io CEO Oleg Campbell
Jun 4, 2017
Disclosure
Campbell Hired a Senior Ukrainian Developer for $2,000 a Month
“No, I was no, I find someone in Ukraine, so he was a senior developer with 10 years experience. And because it's Ukraine, I could get someone like him for 2000 dollars per month.”
Oleg Campbell Jun 4, 2017 ▶ 4:29 680: How to Start SaaS Company with Very little Savings, with Reply.io CEO Oleg Campbell
Jun 4, 2017 neutral
Insight
Ukrainian Tech Employees Often View Startup Equity as a Salary Cut
“We provide equity for our employees who work with us longer than a year, and actually, this is not something really popular in Ukraine, so not, not many people know what equity is. Some of them will look at this, like, as a way for us to give them less salary.”
Oleg Campbell Jun 4, 2017 ▶ 17:28 680: How to Start SaaS Company with Very little Savings, with Reply.io CEO Oleg Campbell
Nov 11, 2018
Assertion Supported
Polo: Ukrainian software developers average $1,000 to $4,000 per month
“I think average from 1000 to 4000 per month. Like it depends and it depends on is it just an outsource company working for like for a contract or is the startup where they have a share”
Vladimir Polo Nov 11, 2018 ▶ 12:01 1205 The Art of Your First $3k in ARR with Ukrainian CEO Vladimir Polo
Jan 28, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Weblium acquires customers with zero ad spend by partnering with banks
“So I already signed up five most the biggest banks in the Ukraine. We work with two banks in Austria right now. One big banking group, which is covering 26 countries is right now, like we are signing up the contract. So actually, actually, we do not spend any …”
David Braun Jan 28, 2019 ▶ 13:45 1283 $100m Exit Was $45m Cash Upfront, Using To Launch New $10/mo Website Builder with 3250 Customers
Jan 15, 2021
Assertion Partly supported
Volodarsky: Senior Ukrainian Developers Cost Product Companies $3K to $5K Monthly
“If you're a product company, you have someone, something that that developers want to work on, you would have a high chance of paying less. You would have a high chance of paying, I don't know maybe three to four to 5000 dollars per, per, per month. If you wor…”
Alexander Volodarsky Jan 15, 2021 ▶ 5:47 Lemon.io Did $2.73m Connecting Developers with Jobs, Keeps 25%
Jun 1, 2021
Disclosure
Rose: Living Security employs 60 core staff and 15 Ukrainian developers
“We have 60 people on our team, and then we have about 15 engineers and developers in Ukraine.”
Ashley Rose Jun 1, 2021 ▶ 14:04 LivingSecurity SaaS Breaks $3m ARR, 150% Retention, New Unify Product To Create More Insights for Security Leaders
May 1, 2022
Insight
Darbyshire: Ukrainian developers charge $50-$75/hr with comparable quality to US talent
“The Ukrainian folks are typically in the 50 to 75 dollar an hour rate that's their similar quality, but the U.S. Folks have a little more experience working with big data some of the more complex architecture issues that we need to solve.”
Jon Darbyshire May 1, 2022 ▶ 24:48 How he hit $1m with no FTE's (Fiverr contractors only)
May 1, 2022
Disclosure
Darbyshire: SmartSuite employs about 60 people in Ukraine
“From a business perspective, it's been challenging with the work that we're doing, but we've kind of got that worked out in the last week or so, so it hasn't affected us, but there's about 60 people there that are just outstanding people that are really strugg…”
Jon Darbyshire May 1, 2022 ▶ 30:40 How he hit $1m with no FTE's (Fiverr contractors only)
May 26, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fuel Finance team works 15-hour days and volunteers on weekends
“I think now we work like 15 hours per day. And simply like without some weekends or something like that, because when we have time we try to volunteer and make all other things. So we couldn't say that we have some weekends or time to rest now or like differen…”
Alyona Misco May 26, 2022 ▶ 11:14 She did $30,000 Last Month from Ukraine HQ helping Founders Understand Finances
Aug 3, 2022 negative
What-if
Jovtenko: RedTrack would have hit $1M ARR without Ukraine war
“And I mean, I'll be honest, if not, the one Ukraine would be there last three months were a bit rough for us.”
Vlad Jovtenko Aug 3, 2022 ▶ 4:24 How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool
Nov 13, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Akhtar: War in Ukraine directly impacted five CyberSmart team members
“That directly impacted, like, five RT members, so, who were in Ukraine, and it had, like, shockwaves throughout the whole company, so we had to, like, figure out how, how do we support them, so we basically just said whatever they need.”
Jamie Akhtar Nov 13, 2022 ▶ 18:20 How I hit $3m in ARR during a pandemic, a war and a looming recession
Jan 26, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Two VCs canceled Raccoon.care investment contracts in February 2022 due to war
“To get like some extra medical certification, but to like VCs, they just like consult our contracts in February because the war starts.”
Svetlana Malinova Jan 26, 2023 ▶ 10:30 Her Devs work out of Bomb Shelters in Ukraine, $150k in Revenue for Employee Care SaaS
Jan 26, 2023
Disclosure
Malinova: Raccoon.care's Ukrainian back office sometimes works from bomb shelters
“I'm in New York, and our back office is in Ukraine, but they are working, sometimes out of bomb shelters, but they are safe, I hope.”
Svetlana Malinova Jan 26, 2023 ▶ 2:24 Her Devs work out of Bomb Shelters in Ukraine, $150k in Revenue for Employee Care SaaS
Sep 28, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Ukrainian martial law forces Kila App to expand to foreign markets.
“And now we are like trying to, because in due to the martial law in Ukraine, the political activities in Ukraine stopped. So we cannot just sell it fully in Ukrainian market because it's forbidden to the rally are forbidden and so on. So we have to focus on th…”
Tamara Tachinska Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 4:54 Ukrainian Volunteer Group Uses This App to Raise $200k/mo, Now Available to Western Customers
Sep 28, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Kila App offers free service to groups crucial to Ukraine's survival.
“We are ready to provide our service for free for some organization. If it's like meets our values and it's very, very crucial for instance, for surviving our country”
Tamara Tachinska Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 7:57 Ukrainian Volunteer Group Uses This App to Raise $200k/mo, Now Available to Western Customers
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 2,600 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.