Asia Tech Podcast

EP 177 - Wouter Delbaere - CEO at Mangtas - Our Vendors Are Our Product

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Wouter Delbaere, a co-Founder and the CEO at Mangtas, was such a great guest.  With a world of experience and a very unique background, it was a pleasure to have him as a guest on the Asia Tech Podcast.  As a business services platform, Mangtas aims to make business outsourcing available for all.

Some of the topics that Wouter and I discussed:

  • Being born in Congo and growing up in 10 different countries
  • Witnessing genocide in Rwanda
  • How playing team sports can help one integrate into almost any geography
  • His most formative years were on Negros Island in the Philippines
  • Being fluent in Cebuano
  • Starting Mangtas in the middle of the pandemic
  • Making Mangtas an equal-opportunity platform and why this is important
  • The necessity of having reviews linked to specific project deliverables
  • Outsourcing via strategic partnerships for the long-term
  • Gathering data to help service providers and clients make better decisions

    • Some things I got wrong or could not remember during this episode:

    • Shenzen's population growth statistics
    • The league in which the New York Cosmos played

      • Some other titles we considered:

      1. It's a Universal Language
      2. There Are Several Layers To This
      3. A Lot of Projects Fail Because the Clients Are Not Ready
      4. We Set Ourselves Up as an Ecosystem
      5. We Love Nothing More Than Third-Party Integration
        6. ...more
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