Proud to use technology to contribute to the prosperity of the country
On the afternoon of January 11, FPT Corporation held a ceremony to announce its journey to becoming a billion-dollar enterprise from foreign markets. Mr. Truong Gia Binh - Chairman of the Board of Directors of FPT Corporation and the founders and executives of FPT shared their pride in becoming the first Vietnamese technology enterprise to achieve this.
According to Mr. Binh, for him, the 1 billion USD that FPT achieved today is not just a number but the life, the youth of him and his colleagues, who have built together, hoped together, dared to dream to realize the goal of bringing Vietnamese intelligence abroad, putting Vietnam's name on the world's technology software export map.
According to FPT representative, to have today's success is not easy. In the early stages, FPT had to pay the price when it was the pioneer in opening two offices in India (in 1999) and the US (in 2000) and after just over a year of operation, it had to disband because it did not get the expected contracts. "But we are always aware that we never give up" - Mr. Binh said.
With its investment in the Japanese market, FPT has continuously achieved success. FPT employees not only have to learn Japanese and Japanese working culture, but also learn from the smallest things such as greetings, document preparation, work procedures, etc.
"Before, we came to ask for jobs, but now we come to discuss jobs. We are willing to learn and speak all languages, to realize the dream of exporting software to the world. In the FPT school system, many foreign languages are trained, to create high-quality human resources to serve this goal" - Mr. Truong Gia Binh added.
"35 years ago, we expressed our wish to contribute to the prosperity of the country through science and technology. At that time, we did not know what software was, but the idea of advancing through technology to help people's lives and the country become better has remained unchanged since then until today," Mr. Truong Gia Binh added, expressing his gratitude to the Vietnamese press and media for accompanying the enterprise in its journey to realize its billion-dollar dream.
This journey makes him very proud, because he is a creative worker in science, technology and engineering, not getting rich from land assets, to contribute to the prosperity of the country.
Will bet on artificial intelligence
"How much investment capital did FPT have to spend to get billions of USD today? Answering this question, Mr. Bui Quang Ngoc - Vice Chairman of FPT's Board of Directors - said that at first, FPT's founders had to borrow 1 million USD to send staff and engineers to India to study software. After that, after many failures in the early years of looking for software export opportunities, by the end of 2023, FPT had earned a revenue of 1 billion USD.
Contributing to this achievement is FPT's spirit of passion and aspiration, spreading from the leaders to each sales staff, and this may be FPT's secret that is difficult to copy for other companies.
Sharing about future orientation, FPT leaders said that the enterprise is nurturing a greater ambition to step up to a higher level in the group of information technology service enterprises with the next milestone of 5 billion USD in technology service revenue for foreign markets by 2030, achieving a revenue and profit scale of billions of USD from a single market, industry and contract.
In particular, in 2024, we will focus on becoming a chip manufacturer in Southeast Asia, making further progress in the field of artificial intelligence, expanding educational activities in localities...
In particular, according to Mr. Truong Gia Binh, the company has planned to require 70,000 FPT people to research artificial intelligence, and 1,000 people must obtain an artificial intelligence consulting specialist certificate. This is a bet of FPT, but it requires investment and transformation.
"Life changes rapidly and FPT must also change to meet this demand" - Mr. Binh emphasized.
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