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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

Alpha Lee : I think the GoFundMe would be quite nice, yeah, because we are looking for funding right now, and we are basically 30 chemists in research labs in Ukraine, China, India, working for us making molecules. Let me pledge my support, and I think I can speak for a lot of people in the community, that we're standing by to help.

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Pandemic, Boom, War, Correction. So Now What for Tech?

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A vast supply of previously untapped labor joined the global workforce, allowing businesses to employ factory workers in China, software engineers in Ukraine, and call center reps in the Philippines. . But the tide of globalization is starting to ebb.

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