Elfond: Rallyware evacuated all but three of its 82 Kharkiv employees
George Elfond · Scaling enterprise sales with digital transformation for a niche industry · Oct 23, 2022 · at 19:12
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George Elfond, CEO of Rallyware, explains the outcome of their crisis management and evacuation efforts following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
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“Now we only have three people in, in Kharkiv out of 82. Everyone else was left the city and the country since then”
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