We Met an Anime Ninja CEO 🥷 - EP 103

On Our Podcast Show this week, we talk to an anime fan, a gadget lover, a PC Gamer, and the CEO of a company you may never have heard of, MTS Solutions. Michael Barton started out as Michael's Tech Shop (aka MTS) but quickly discovered that repairing phones and PCs for people wouldn't scale to the size of the dreams he had. Using his connections in the communities he was a part of, he began to recruit his dream team, connected with a communication tool they all had in common: Discord. As a huge anime fan, Michael has always wanted to travel to Japan, and it looks like that will be his next venture. And then Canada once he figures out the metric system.

Highlights

00:00 - Intro
01:04 - Who is MTS Solutions?
03:55 - How do you manage a growing company?
06:20 - What is a SOP in business?
08:54 - How important is succession planning?
10:08 - What's it like doing business in Japan?
11:49 - Is it easy to do business at Computex?
14:32 - How important are connections in business?
16:45 - What's it like doing business in Taiwan?
19:01 - Why is anime so big?
21:46 - What are the challenges of doing business in Japan?
27:50 - Is it reasonable to know the business culture of a foreign country?
30:33 - Should you only focus on one business at a time?
32:43 - Is PC gaming the new golf in business?
35:35 - Do generational changes have an effect on business?
37:22 - Why is it important to know your client?
38:50 - How will AI affect the server industry/business?
41:53 - How much electricity does an AI data center use?
44:20 - Can a VPN be used for data centers?
45:00 - How fast are fibre optic cables for data centers?
47:23 - What is a NAS - Network Attached Storage?
48:55 - Will MTS Solutions expand into Canada?
55:06 - What is the difference between the imperial and metric systems?

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