Built to Solve
a Problem
Before I could walk, I slept in the back of my dad's fruit and veg stall on Soho's Berwick Street Market while he
served customers out front. He was known for his amazing displays, attention to detail and small,
personal service. That stall grew into a direct catering business, and by my mid-twenties, I was running
the operation.
It was demanding: perishable stock, overnight orders, relentless time pressure and customers who
expected perfection. As I became more interested in technology, I worked on modernising the business,
moving beyond pen and paper. I tried every software package I could find. Each had its strengths, but
none understood the trade as a whole.
I ended up building my own tools and workarounds to solve the problems we faced every day. What was
available felt decades out of date, built by people who had never lived it. I realised that if I wanted
software that genuinely worked for the trade, I had to build it myself.
I didn't create Mango because I wanted to build software. I built it because nothing else solved the
unique challenges of the fresh produce trade. I built the tool I spent years wishing someone would hand
me, with the same attention to detail my dad put into that stall.
Billy Warrington
Founder | Mango App
