Faced with a lagging domestic tech industry, serial entrepreneur Diyor Latipov needed to determine the next steps of his technology education for kids start-up, Unicode. Founded during Uzbekistan’s tech boom in 2021, Unicode taught coding basics to over 500 children ages 4 to 18 in a three-year period and developed a self-sustaining business-to-business model. In April 2024, Uzbekistan’s tech bubble had burst. Faced with budget cuts, schools were .....more