Lessons Learned about Outsourcing from a 5x Leader

01/09/24 • 30 min

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.

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Authority and Data Go Hand in Hand

In the latest episode, I speak with Beate Chelette about how authority figures and ideas develop through data.
Beate Chelette is the Growth Architect and founder of The Women’s Code. She creates strategies, designs process maps and blueprints for visionaries and leaders who want to maximize their profits and scale their impact.
A first-generation immigrant who found herself $135,000 in debt as a single parent, Beate bootstrapped her passion for photography into a highly-successful global business and eventually sold it to Bill Gates in a multimillion-dollar deal.
She is “One of 100 Top Global Thought Leaders in 2021” by PeopleHum and “One of 50 Must-Follow Women Entrepreneurs by HuffPost.
She is the author of the #1 International Award Winning Amazon Bestseller “Happy Woman Happy World – How to Go from Overwhelmed to Awesome”
Recent clients include Amazon, Chevron, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, the Women’s Legislative Caucus of Cal State University Dominguez Hills, the Greater Los Angeles Realtor Association, Advertising Agency TracyLocke and thousands of small businesses.
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Data Dynamo: Journey into the World of Databases

Robert Hodges is CEO of Altinity, which helps enterprises build real-time analytics using ClickHouse.

He has been working on databases as well as the applications that use them since the early 1980s. The journey included Sybase and Oracle in the 1990s, MySQL and PostgreSQL in the early 2000s, followed by analytic databases starting in 2010.

Robert's technical interests include distributed systems, open source software, and Kubernetes.

He is stoked to be part of the next wave of technology based on open source analytic databases. It's a privilege to help users discover creative new uses for data and technology!