Leaseweb: Trust, Flexibility and Human Connection Matter in the MSP Market, Podcast
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Leaseweb: Trust, Flexibility and Human Connection Matter in the MSP Market, Podcast

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 1, 2026

By Doug Green “People buy from people they like and they trust, and that hasn’t changed.” At MSP Summit 2026, I sat down with Tim Mandell of Leaseweb to talk about what he was hearing from MSPs at the event and why relationships, trust and flexibility remain central to the channel, even as conversations increasingly focus on AI, infrastructure, data privacy and data sovereignty. Mandell said one of the things that stood out at the conference was how much of the discussion came back to relationship building. Rather than simply trying to sell one an...

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Hey, everybody, it's Doug Green, and I'm the publisher of Technology Reseller News, and I'm here with my good friend Tim Mendel of Lease Web. Tim, thank you for joining me. Thanks for having me again.

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It's good to see you. So we're coming up now on the end of the MSP summit. It's sort of weird how it starts and then stops so quickly. It's been very busy.

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What have you been hearing and what have you been talking about here at this event? Well I think one of the things that resonated with me and we touched on this yesterday was the things that we're hearing on the stage are kind of some of the things we're talking about in terms of data privacy, in terms of the ability to control your own data

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