Smartling a translation delivery network that helps companies large and small
translate their websites into other languages using a variety of
tactics including professional translators, volunteer translators, and
computer translation.
"Smartling has accepted the audacious
mission of trying to make the entire Internet truly multilingual," says
Smartling CEO Jack Welde. "Language is one of the last true barriers on
the web; our view is that five years from now, having an English-only
website is going to feel about as dumb as not having a website at all."
The
company, which earlier this year raised $10 million in series B
funding, counts Scribd, SurveyMonkey, and Foursquare among a roster of
clients that's growing by 300% a month.
Welde's unique
background--he grew up traveling the globe in a military family, studied
computer engineering at Penn, and then spent nine years as an Air Force
pilot--put him in a unique position to create Smartling, bringing
together passions that include travel, culture, computer engineering,
and language.
Watch the video below to learn more about what inspires Welde and Smartling to make the web truly work on a global scale.
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