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

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