What started in 1997 as  a small hole-in-the-wall Internet Café, working with only eight desktop PCs along Katipunan road in Quezon City, is now the country’s largest Internet Café and Gaming Network chain. Today, Netopia has 171 branches all over the Philippines plus 4 more in Thailand, operating more than 4000 workstations in all.

Netopia president, Raymond Ricafort, an MBA graduate of the Ateneo Graduate School of Business, answers questions on the success behind the ‘7-11’ of Internet Cafés.