Recent Media Coverage
Welcome to MindValley Press Room. Read on what press has to say about what we do and who we are.
25 Companies Win Worldwide Award for Democracy in the Workplace
April 30 2008, Atlanta, Georgia
Workplace democracy isn’t only happening in the US. A notable stand-out on the list is MindValley, a self-funded Internet company based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with 25 employees from 17 countries. MindValley’s CEO states, “Most companies end up killing brilliant people. We had to tear down our ideas of what an ideal company is and give them room to build their own company culture. Along the way, our own blend of organizational democracy emerged, and we ended up bending the rules of business in a few crucial ways.”
“Organizational democracy is inevitable,” comments Fenton. “The Internet, the demands of Generations X and Y for meaningful work, and the Gallup Organization’s report that nearly two-thirds of US workers are disengaged at work are causing businesses to rethink their management models and embrace a more democratic style. The companies that choose organizational democracy will lead their industries, boost their bottom-line, and ultimately build a more democratic world.”
MindValley Wins the WorldBlu Award for World’s Most Democratic Workspaces
April 2008, Atlanta
Twenty-five companies are the annual winners in a “Worldwide Award for the Most Democratic Workplaces” competition sponsored by WorldBlu, Inc.
Among the organizations are DaVita Inc., (the first FORTUNE 500® company to make the WorldBlu List), Great Harvest Bread Company, BzzAgent, 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, Equal Exchange, Linden Lab (makers Second Life), Pandora, DreamHost, Continuum, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, MindValley, and BetterWorld Telecom
According to US News and World Report
“Democratic companies may be slower in making decisions but faster in carrying them out because employees are invested in them. Workplace experts say the results can often be worth the effort of gathering employee input. In the war for talent, they add, the best and brightest employees will gravitate toward companies where their opinions get taken seriously. The younger generation of workers is accustomed to working in teams and speaking out through blogs”
Denver University MBA Presentation on Innovative Companies
April 2008, Denver University
MindValley is mentioned alongside usch companies as Apple and 37 Signals by Victoria Girdziunas at a Denver University presentation on Innovation Drivers at companies.
The Internet Is His Playground
January 2008, Youth Entrepreneur
Give him just few seconds of your time and he will blow you away with his energy, snappy wit blow and rapidly whirring mind. Top student and Valedictorian at University of Technology Sydney, San Francisco State and UC Berkeley.
The internet is his playground. Being 23 he left his brain behind online projects like Project Bazooka, BunchOut.com and theCICAK which made him the Winner of the Klue Blue Chilli Award 2007. He was also the first Malaysian representative to win the 2006 HSBC Young Entrepreneur Award.
Malaysia’s ICT industry – one perspective
November 2007, PC.com
Mike Reining, believer that Malaysia which is becoming Knowledge Sharing country needs an internet start-up success story which will inspire local technopreneurs and developers.
Growing development team from all over the world can pitch the ideas to them and transform it into writing an “under wraps” social app which will be released for internal beta testing in a few weeks. But MindValley is not only huge idea factory but also resource of good and relevant programming languages like PHP and Ruby on Rails.