Seven months ago, I met someone who would turn out to be Alaya’s first investor. He would also turn out to be the love of my life and my life partner.
Since September 2017, Koray and I have been traveling all over (Manila, Iloilo, Turkey, Palawan) and discussing nonstop about how to create the economic backbone to make Alaya happen. As dreams would have it, something bigger than us started carrying us towards the right path, right ideas, right people. And now here we are, April 2018, getting ready to birth our babies: we’re expecting our first baby girl in July (yay!), and our tech company a little sooner than that.
Why a tech company?
The priority hub in building Alaya was always the Enterprise hub.
Wealth Creation is growing our own value so we can share it with the world.
The Enterprise and Wealth Creation hub of Alaya.PH will focus on the economic aspect of communities: how do we create wealth for ourselves and scale this?
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Being able to scale the wealth creation was always important for us, and what better product or service to scale than something whose very nature is to scale itself–technology.
We’ve just put up Leadeana, a tech holding company whose mission is to give Filipinos fair access to opportunities for a good life. We will train, hire, and mentor world-class tech professionals in underserved areas of the Philippines to create the biggest Data and AI Team in the world. The business model is designed to bring with us as many people as possible, to create a new economic class of creative, empowered and self-improving Filipino geeks (geeks used ever so lovingly!). Our community of tech experts will then be a self-sustaining breeding ground for entrepreneurs ready to take up the challenge of producing Philippine unicorns.
We are now offering an opportunity for 12 people to come in as strategic partners who will bring this vision to fruition with us. If you share our vision for the Philippines and are able to contribute your expertise to the group: industry knowledge, network, passions and time, please send us a big hello.