Episode #15

The Podfather (feat. Blake Oliver, CPA)

recorded 6/14/2021

Blake Oliver, Founder of The Cloud Accounting Podcast

Hello and welcome. We are the Sons of CPAs. Join us as we question the current state of the accounting and tax industry with the next generation of professionals leading this space, we are the change agents in an industry fraught with money and inertia. Let's begin The Sons of CPAs with your hosts, Jason Ackerman and Scott Scarano.

2 the Cello and Money and growing up in a Gentile bubble

36 larger CPA firms are giant pyramid schemes

38 what’s a product marketer?

40 ExpensiCon 3.0 on Mars

41 an almost fully automated engagement for $1k/mo

42 software companies are so weird

46 Dude SCOTT! for the love of God, let him SPEAK!

47 the next generation of firm owners

50 tips for better podcasting

1.0 ok Blake, did you track TIME?

1.3 will tax software ever be on the cloud?

1.4 will HubDoc ever be inside of Xero?

1.5 Blake’s side project, EarMark!

1.8 CPAs creating their own CPE courses for podcasts!

1.11 the best stuff in our profession is professionals talking to professionals

1.13 shout out to Rod Drury for creating Blake, a Greek God