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Wednesday, April 03, 2024
It started in Russia. But as Putin's society grew darker and harsher, he left the country. In 2019, he moved to Kiev and started investing in startups.
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In the podcast, we're talking about (in Swedish):
- What happens when the flight warnings sound while sitting in a hipster pub in Kiev.
- The challenges of working in dictatorships (avoid... unpleasant learning).
- How Hype Ventures' IRR (return) has performed since its inception in 2019 (better than expected, despite full-scale war and a tech crash).
- How naive we have been in the West and how a tech investment in Kiev can indirectly protect the Western world.
- Mathias' journey from interpreter school through the Swedish embassy in Finland and to Moscow before everything went south in Russia.
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That Ukrainians have built many of Silicon Valley's billion-dollar companies (e.g., Max Levchin, PayPal mafia++, and Jan Koum, WhatsApp).
By
Mathias Eklöf
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