Virtusa, by Kris. Shanil's Sysco Labs. And I think there's a firm called WSO2. I am not sure of all. There must be others.
I think Tania's got a "drop shipping" or some fancy word business. Trans shipment business. She might be US based too. I am not sure.
MAS is Sri Lankan, but supply major US firms there.
We're US based, and a California company, with a Delaware HoldCo for investors. But I'm a Sri Lankan.
The US gov't, the State Dep't, will tell US firms, not to go to SL, because Sri Lanka's got massive risks, the chief amongst them being an insufficient legal environment.
They -- we -- are supposed to pay minimum wage $73,500 in California per year. So then, therefore, a lawyer's much more expensive. If a court case in -- SL, costs 5 -10 years, then that's $730,000
The low cost wages, $2,500 per month, adds up to $25,000 or $30,000: if you hire 100, or 1000 people, that's $3,000,000 to $30M.
The legal costs, will stack up really badly, where it can disrupt business, if it's a strike or reputation cost, it's damage that goes beyond supply side, to consumer and therefore investor side globally.
When tea company, execs, got blamed for sex for jobs, in plantations, people stopped buying tea after the BBC reported it, it blew back.
The US wants to invest, China wants to invest -- because they respect our people, but they're afraid of the very dangerous risks, particularly the legal risks.
They are not just worried about the slowness, or the 1.2M backlog, they're scared the judges have low trust society values, and will judge it against established legal norms, and even reverse or opposite, as a sovereign republic.
This is why so many US firms have refused SL.