Worked at Amazon, worried about Trump, experience of the Russians, and back home

· Atlas

Rakel Sveinsdóttir interviewed Þórður Atlason, founder of Atlas, for Vísir's Atvinnulíf section under the headline "Worked at Amazon, worried about Trump, experience of the Russians, and back home" (in Icelandic).

Headline of the Vísir interview: „Vann hjá Amazon, með áhyggjur af Trump, reynslu af Rússum en kominn heim“, with a photograph of Þórður Atlason.

The interview traces the road here: an exchange year in Russia during the winter Crimea was taken, years in South Korea and Germany, and four years at Amazon Web Services in Berlin and Seattle. That is the experience Atlas rests on.

The thread running through it is simple. When it comes to it, the large cloud companies do what the US authorities tell them, and a growing share of the data about Iceland and Icelanders sits in American clouds. That is why we built Atlas.

The full interview is on visir.is, in Icelandic.