When the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, 33-year-old Andrey Klen — the co-founder of design firm O0 and co-founder and CMO of internet-connected laser-toy maker Petcube — had been preparing both his staff for about three weeks: “The threat was imminent. We needed to have individual relocation plans in place.”
Along with his co-founder of both companies, 34-year-old Alex Neskin — who’d last year moved with his wife, daughter, and mother from Kyiv to the San Francisco Bay Area — Klen helped more than half of his 50 Ukraine-based employees relocate. Most went to western Ukraine, some to Europe. Then a bomb dropped 1,000 meters from Klen’s home in Kyiv. He needed to get out too.
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