QwertyWorks

QwertyWorks Data Services Company was founded in 2001 in the Philippines by Jake Irwin Estrada. The company itself is an offshoot of the founder's professional translation career that started in the mid-1990s; the "big break" came in year 2000 when he was offered a long-term project to translate the User Interfaces and User Guides for the mobile phones of Nokia Corporation Oyj that's meant for the Philippine market. Jake used his life savings to buy a second-hand computer worth PhP5,500 ($122) and started hand-picking his own team of dedicated professional linguists to turn his one-man operation into a registered company that is now based in Makati City, with production offices in Antipolo City. Throughout the years, QwertyWorks grew without seed funding or venture capital, relying only on strict financial discipline and keeping its promises to customers. Today, the team at QwertyWorks caters to more than 400 clients with the same trademark customer-orientedness and performance-driven service that customers have been receiving from Mr. Estrada for almost 2 decades. The company's output is now being used by billions of people in more than 75 country-markets, speaking more than 60 languages.