It is a common story of a company born from the head of a student or the dream of a young man. WIT is the result of the will and the need for a client that launches challenge to the man who is now chief executive (CEO) of the company. “In 1997, I created a group of developing software ‘in Pedro Nunes Institute. They were brilliant students I knew the corridors and the University stairs. And at the end of 2000 we had a number of critical projects with Telecel, today Vodafone, which challenged me to create a company that was expert in the field of ‘software’ for telecommunications, “says Luis Moura e Silva.
they spent 15 years. WIT is in Portugal and has representative offices in the UK, Germany and the United States. Today 90% of the software developed in the company is exported. the company Coimbra works with some of the largest telecom operators in Europe and Asia. in addition to Vodafone, for example Deutsche Telekom, the largest telecommunications operator in Germany and the European Union, is among its customers
the bet for the future is precisely invest where growth is emerging:.. in Asia Pacific “Right now we have our ‘software’ in the hands of millions of people that I can not quantify. In 37 different countries. And we do not want to stay there, because our ambition has much to do with the world map. Right now we have 37 countries painted in blue on the map and our goal is to paint the entire map of the world blue “, explains the CEO of technology Coimbra.
The WIT started with nine employees and five thousand euros initial capital. Today is proud to have 290 brains, most software engineers, and to charge about 22 million euros. The problem, according to the executive, is finding qualified people for projects whom to work abound in the WIT.
Luis Moura and Silva believes that the next 15 years will be much more interesting than those who passed. “I think the best time this company is reserved for the future. We are proud, obviously, of these 15 years, but we are not satisfied. By the way, we will be eternally dissatisfied “, he stresses.
The history of WIT is also the story of an entrepreneur who soon realized that leaving the Portuguese market was an essential condition of success. “The country is a very small rectangle, not worth thinking about making a company to think that customers will be here. What is worth, it is exciting, absolutely exciting and gives us much joy and adrenaline is to make the route that WIT and other companies have done, which is to be in Portugal, on the site where the company was born, stay here, do not leave the country, do not leave the country, keep people here, create jobs here, but to ‘software’ for the rest of world. “this requires” ambition and perseverance capacity out of the ordinary “in the words of Luis Moura e Silva. it is to be a small country does not mean thinking small.
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