Lessons Learned about Outsourcing from a 5x Leader

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. 

Chapters

• 2:22 Vancouver Olympics and Real Estate Development
• 4:57 Advertising business opportunity for a new method with accurate data
• 7:34 Rosetta stone of data migration and translation
• 9:34 Sean as the CEO at Strutta
• 11:26 Sean’s 4th company in environmental services
• 13:05 Uber meets oil field trucking business
• 14:10 The interesting pieces of the oil patch
• 15:57 Another business opportunity for mathematicians and scientists in Calgary
• 18:37 Outforce AI - bring high tech workers together
• 20:35 More development for new APIs for large clients
• 21:07 The challenge of outsourcing - great engineers are hard to find
• 21:56 Sean decides to fix the outsourcing model
• 23:01 49% of outsourcing projects don’t end well
• 26:19 Engineer team building success
• 27:56 ChatGPT helps engineers further develop their prompting