What happened after a Moscow-born Seattle tech CEO closed a big Russian operation

“We don’t work in Russia anymore.” Sergei Dreizin is co-founder and CEO of software engineering company Akvelon, based in Bellevue, Wash. Born and raised in Moscow, he made the decision to close the company's 800-person Russian engineering operation after the invasion of Ukraine. But that was just the beginning of the story, as Dreizin explains in this interview with GeekWire's John Cook. Above, photos of Akvelon employees in Russia and Ukraine prior to the invasion. 

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