'You guys are based in California, not Ukraine, right?' — an analyst mocked Trump's CrowdStrike conspiracy on the firm's earnings callAn analyst mocked Donald Trump's false claim that CrowdStrike is a Ukrainian company, during the American cybersecurity firm's latest earnings call.
Trump said he'd heard CrowdStrike was"owned by a very rich Ukrainian" and"Ukraine-based" during an interview in 2017. "That would be correct — Sunnyvale, California," CrowdStrike's cofounder and CEO, George Kurtz, replied. CrowdStrike was cofounded by Dmitri Alperovitch, who was born in Moscow and moved to the US as a teenager. Yet in an, Trump said he'd"heard it's owned by a very rich Ukrainian" and it's"Ukraine-based."