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March 23, 2022

Emails with Elon Musk: The man who negotiated a Starlink delivery to Ukraine

The SpaceX and Tesla founder has proved to be pretty approachable for this Ukrainian city


Tim Smith

4 min read

Four weeks ago, Stepan Veselovskyi didn’t think he’d be exchanging direct emails with Elon Musk. But now, the CEO of Lviv IT Cluster is preparing for the worst, as his city in western Ukraine braces itself for the war to arrive on its doorstep.

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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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