The year was 1999. Four young engineers returned home from the UK and decided to start a company. There were many reasons of wanting to start a company. For the Viztel founders it was the idealistic thought of creating a platform for them and their young contemporaries to excel at their own pace without going through the bullshit career-ladder that promoted seniority rather than capability. Hence Viztel was created. Fueled by its young founders and equally by its hordes of young employees, it expanded rapidly to become a Southeast-Asia regional telecom software firm but later only to suffer the dotcom crash in the 2001-2000 period. It scaled back but perservered. Viztel eventually went on to a very successful IPO on the MESDAQ market of Bursa Malaysia in year 2004. The company's fate took a unexpected twist when it was the subject of a hostile take-over in year 2006.The founders left. The new controlling shareholders fumbled and it was eventually delisted in May 2011, marking the close of the final chapter of an amazing tale.
Viztel was about young people struggling against all odds to challenge the status quo. This site intends to share some of their experiences with the intention that perhaps among the readers another group of young people could be inspired to challenge rhetorical conventions that exist in many form out there.
Viztel was made for the young people and the young people made Viztel. This is their story.
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