In order to realize the world Asilla is aiming for, how do you want your employees to grow? The three directors of Asilla will take turns answering the question, "How do you want your employees to grow? In addition to this, the respondents to the questions "What kind of company" and "A message to young engineers" will be changed each time for a total of three interviews.
In this final installment, we start with Mr. Hai, CEO of Ajira Vietnam!
Many Ajira Vietnam members say that when they first joined the company, they were shocked about the way things work at Ajira Vietnam. This is because sometimes they were not given detailed and clear tasks. Waiting to be assigned new tasks and being told how to do them is not the way to work at Asilla. Instead, Asilla members must proactively come up with a plan of action and implementation. Once you become accustomed to this way of working, you will grow fast and be able to tackle any task with confidence.
At a startup like Asilla, you are encouraged to take on tasks that go beyond your role. As an engineer, you will not only be doing the coding work, but you will also be involved in the process of formulating business ideas, planning development, and bringing the product to market. On the other hand, members of the business side may be involved in the product quality control process in order to better understand the company's products. Try new thing everyday" is one of the ideas shared by the members of Ajira Vietnam. This is true not only in our work, but also in our life experiences.
Asilla does not have a full training and on-the-job training program that lasts for weeks or months, as is the case in large companies. Many of the projects you will work on at Asilla are innovative and challenging. Even if something fails, it is very valuable for the growth of the team and each member. We believe that the process of self-learning, experimentation, and adaptive learning is the best way for our members to grow.
Asilla encourages people to start their own businesses in the future. Sharing the lessons experienced at Asilla from its inception to today is one of the actions that encourage entrepreneurship. In addition, participating in the development of a business in Asilla is an important experience for future leaders in Asilla or elsewhere.
Nguyen Thanh Hai, CEO of Asilla Vietnam and Director of Asilla
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It is a technology-driven AI startup founded by Japanese and Vietnamese IT engineers. Although the company has strengths in basic and elemental technologies for video analysis AI, these technologies are very difficult for the general public to understand, and the public's impression of the company is quite humble.
However, we have been highly evaluated by the AI business staff of discerning international blue-chip companies, who gave us an average score of 4.8 out of 5 points in the evaluation of AI product development projects (QCD + value-added creation) (as of May, 2022). As a result of these achievements, we are making progress in building one-step relationships with each company. We feel proud that everyone has placed their trust in us.
Furthermore, we believe that the true value of Asilla will be proven by the success of our own products that challenge the creation of new value, and as the number of sales increases in the future, we believe that many people will learn that our company possesses exceptional AI elemental technologies.
We are holding a free webinar on May 31, and we hope you will feel free to attend.
If there is a popular term for a "sparkling startup," Asilla is its opposite, a "mossy startup," and since its inception, we have not budgeted for promotions, but have devoted ourselves entirely to building our MLOps infrastructure (machine learning infrastructure) and evolving our product element technologies.
In 2019, we said, "We know that your technology is excellent. I understand that you have well-sharpened [kitchen knives that cut well], but what we want is [good food]." and have continued to be described (in a positive sense) as "rigid and unshaven," or "frugal and rigid. It is a world of "don't be afraid of rain, don't be afraid of wind.
In 2022, it took a long time, but finally "delicious food" is ready. With this dish, prepared with world-class kitchen knives, we challenge the creation of new value.
Now that the main dish is ready, all that remains is to do it! We will do anything, glittery or shiny, if necessary, but we will go for a new generation of technology-driven startups that have never been born in Japan before.
Representative Director Daisuke Kimura
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This is the headline of a front-page article in the May 29 edition of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun...................sad.
I have been in the workforce for a long time, but I have always felt that in Japan, people in sales-related jobs are dominant and engineers are looked down upon. I think this is the result of Japan's failure to provide adequate treatment for engineers, even though it talks about aiming to become a technological nation. This is a negative aspect of our country.
We should not be complacent about the salary level in Japan just because the job market is high. Dr. Clark once said, "Young engineers should remember these words. Engineers are in a position where they can create something out of nothing and have room for originality and ingenuity to improve what is already there. It would be great if we could work in such an exciting way that we could complete routine tasks efficiently and produce results that surprise everyone.
This is our slogan and motto that expresses our values. Because our president is an engineer, we have a culture that values engineers. The fact that the president is an engineer means that there is no room for deception, but it also means that the environment is conducive to the development of real engineers. Nationality and gender are irrelevant. I am proud to say that we have an environment where people with ability can be active and earn appropriate rewards.
I encourage you to take on challenges while you are young. If you don't, your mindset toward challenge itself will be buried. Failure while you are still young is a trivial thing. I would like you to live your life giving it your all so that you have no regrets.
Yoshiteru Minagawa, Director and CFO
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