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September 12, 2019

Armenia: how booming startups are reversing a population exodus

Tech startups are creating jobs and encouraging people to move back to an increasingly confident and optimistic post-revolution Armenia.


Chris Sisserian

7 min read

Last month, Harout Barsegyan left his home in Los Angeles and his job at a large global consultancy and moved 7,000 miles away to Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.

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