ABBYY: How A Bulletin Board Post Changed Everything – with David Yang

David Yang, ABBYY, B2B, Customer Acquisition, System

How does a piece of paper posted on a bulletin board lead to a software company that’s used by over 30,000,000 customers?

As a student, David Yang had an idea for a company. So he posted a simple message on a school bulletin board, “I’m looking for a computer engineer.” That led to the founding of ABBYY, a leading founder of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies and services.

For example, when people fill in forms by hand, many governments and companies use ABBYY to read what they’ve scribbled on those forms–which is stunning because most people can’t read their own handwriting, and here are computers doing it.

David Yang

ABBYY

David Yang is the founder of ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies and services.

 

Andrew: I’ve told you about them for ever, so you probably already no the names of my three sponsors, right? For example, if I asked you, “Who is the lawyer that Track Entrepreneurs trusts because he understands the start up community?”, you probably know it’s Scott Edward Walker of Walker Corporate Law.

And if I asked you where should you send your friends who want to build online stores, you’d probably tell me Shopify.com, because Shopify stores are beautiful, they’re designed to sell, and Shopify makes sure that there won’t be any tech support for you to do, because they’re easy to set up.

Finally, if you have a friend who says, “Hey, I want a phone number, and then if somebody presses one, I want it to go to sales, and if they press two, I want it to go to tech support’s cell phone number, and if they press three, I want it to reach my home cell phone number, and all that stuff.”, where do you...

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