Robert Laing

Within 23 wards, Tokyo, Japan Japan

CEO & Founder

Technology / Software / Internet

At Gengo, our vision is for everyone to read and publish across languages, with one click. So we're building the technology platform for people-powered translation at any scale. We now have over forty staff, in Japan, the USA, Germany, the UK and China. You can now order translation into 36 languages. Several million words are translated every week. Over 13,000 truly tested translators in all timezones. 95% of jobs commenced in under 28 minutes from ordering. And 99.996% of jobs are successfully approved by thousands of customers. We’re proud to now provide both a simple tool for individuals to get translation, and the platform and API on which others are building a multi-language w...