
A language CEO, 20 years in, now building his own AI
Sean Hopwood started a company in 2007 without owning a computer. Nearly two decades later, Day Translations works with more than 10,000 linguists and has offices on three continents, all without a dollar of outside investment.
In this CEO-to-CEO edition of In Other Words, Sean joins Phrase CEO Georg Ell to share how he built a global language services business funded entirely by client revenue. His interest in languages began at eight, when he started learning Spanish in a small Florida town. He now speaks eight languages with varying fluency. The company takes its name from his grandfather…
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