Comment by 52-6F-62
5 years ago
I'm guessing they don't cut off the United States because the United States isn't invading and bombing the cities where they operate and have employees.
A lot of people are making assumptions about this being a purely PR "woke" move of some kind, ignoring this: https://www.namecheap.com/careers/ukraine
Seems pretty personal to me. If I or my people were actively being bombed by an invading force, I'd take it personally, too. And then I'd take action about it.
To me, Russian behaviour is identical to the Turkish invasion of 1974, the subsequent occupation of Northern Cyprus until this very day, and the installation of a puppet government.
I sympathise with Namecheap's CEO, and had I been anything more than a grad student, I'd have done similar.
Is definitely a personal move.
Go on their website, they operate in 4 countries.
US: 40 people
Portugal: 70 people
Ukraine: 1700 people
India: 70 people
Classic American company delocalizing everything and now crying because all the engineering is based in Ukraine.
You put all the eggs in one basket and now you complain that they broke? Ukraine is in a conflict with Russia not from yesterday, it has been years from the Crimea case.
The CEO of this company never had a thought about de-risking his over reliance on Ukrainian talent to run his company? Or was just too cheap to keep the location there and pocket the difference in added value created by these talents?
Why should NameCheap have done anything differently? The idea that they should have run their company differently so that they could keep doing business with a hostile country presumes that it's more desirable for them to do that than hire Ukrainians.
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It's definitely personal. But it's people you care about being bombed kind of personal, not asset risk.