

EP 177 - Wouter Delbaere - CEO at Mangtas - Our Vendors Are Our Product
Feb 8, 2022
42:51
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:
- It's a Universal Language
- There Are Several Layers To This
- A Lot of Projects Fail Because the Clients Are Not Ready
- We Set Ourselves Up as an Ecosystem
- We Love Nothing More Than Third-Party Integration