The leadership team at customer success startup Totango was monitoring the tensions between Russia and Ukraine for several weeks. About two weeks ago, they offered to relocate their small Ukrainian team to Tel Aviv, where Totango has engineering operations.
Instead, most of its employees chose to stay.
“The team initially preferred to stay put and wait and see how things are going to play out,” founder Guy Nirpaz said in an interview from Redwood City, California, where Totango is headquartered. “It was also clear to me that the team would like to stay close to their families and they don’t want to be seen as opportunists, leaving Ukraine at this time of distress.”
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