Our Corporate Story

• Why invest with us?

After ten years of research and five years of development, all on a shoestring budget, Tony Minh Duy lauched the website tapsu.com. In Vietnamese, tập sự, means on probation. After Vietnam became the 150th member of the WTO, the website switched its name to danhthieptoi.com. In Vietnamese, danh thiếp tôi, means, my business card. The site works like myspace.com, but more serious, and with a Vietnamese twist. Among other things, this website includes a subset of HTML with keywords based on the Vietnamese language.

Devin Nguyen and Doug Nguyen were two of the first few employees in Vietnam working for danhthieptoi.com. It was Mr. Kevin Phan of Texas who invested $10,000 to buy one percent of the business in order to keep it alive in 2006. Further investment was not necessary in 2007 because some income was possible through outsourcing services. Before 2008, other investors were also involved but their combined interests were less than one percent. In 2008, several additional investors were invited to involve their skills with our startup business.

Our vision is to supply the American economy with a million offshore workers from Vietnam by the year 2020. Each is called a gift worker and their entry-level counterpart is called an elgi, which stands for entry-level gift worker. They are called gift workers because the quality of their skills are rated and thus good enough to be presented as a gift. Anyone can buy and present an elgi as a gift and anyone can own and raise an elgi as part of his or her career strategy, see how it works.

A sales representative specialized in selling gift workers is called a gift provider or simply a provider. Clients of a provider are those who have a need to buy, own or raise an elgi. For example, an under-employed professional who owns an elgi would be able to make full use of his capabilities by asking his or her elgi to carry out many necessary steps to bring their ideas forward. Each and every provider will have incentives to find and train additional providers as subordinates in a new economic order, say of 2020, in which every other MBA student got to raise an elgi or own a gift worker be it a gift designer or a gift programmer.

The above vision is called the vision of a million Vietnamese programmers (CXV1TL). CXV1TL stands for, Chất xám Việt một Triệu lần, in Vietnamese, which literally means, a million Vietnamese brains. The implication is, a million gift programmers. How could this be possible without an army of gift providers in the USA? The creation of ownacoder.com is an attempt to answer this question.