You Say Data, I Say Dayta

Lessons Learned about Outsourcing from a 5x Leader

January 09, 2024 Joe Forish Season 4 Episode 1
You Say Data, I Say Dayta
Lessons Learned about Outsourcing from a 5x Leader
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In this episode, I have a lovely conversation with Sean Languedoc about the successes and challenges of building and leading businesses.

Sean Languedoc has built or led 5 companies in technology over a 30 year career. 2 wins 2 losses and 1 that's winning now.

He's an angel investor and mentor to many. His latest venture OUTFORCE DOT AI helps companies get the best matching outsource agencies and not get fooled by outsourcing agencies that promise the world. 

In this episode he gives away the secrets of how and when to outsource and how and when NOT to outsource. 

Vancouver Olympics and Real Estate Development
Advertising business opportunity for a new method with accurate data
Rosetta stone of data migration and translation
Sean as the CEO at Strutta
Sean’s 4th company in environmental services
Uber meets oil field trucking business
The interesting pieces of the oil patch
Another business opportunity for mathematicians and scientists in Calgary
Outforce AI - bring high tech workers together
More development for new APIs for large clients
The challenge of outsourcing - great engineers are hard to find
Sean decides to fix the outsourcing model
49% of outsourcing projects don’t end well
Engineer team building success
ChatGPT helps engineers further develop their prompting