Episode 55 | Recorded February 7, 2022

Guest: Chad Davis, CPA the Co-Founder of LiveCA and Co-Host of AutomationTown 

Hosts: Zachary Call and Scott Scarano

Sponsor: Dark Horse CPAs - abetterway.cpa

Listen in as we pick Chad’s brain, as there's no shortage of great information up there. How to be intentional and naturally solve problems. Manage a team of over 100ppl.  Chad lives in an RV w/ his wife and two kids, down by the river.  + what the hell is NO-CODE!?

3 Chad shares how he co-founded LiveCA with Josh Zweig back in 2013.

***Shoutout Josh Zweig, Xero, Will Lopez, and Freshbooks***

5 Tech & Tax: Chad is the Tech as Josh is the Tax

***Shoutout Johnny McEvoy, Bill Kimball, Herschel Co., Peter Wen, Ryan Lazanis, and Jason Staats***

9 How Xero has been a bridge that connected all of us in this community.

***Shoutout Maria Phillips, Slack, Dave MacPherson, Donut app***

13 Chad opens up about how the firm evolves as they add more team members 

***Shoutout Baalkis Hassan, Tyler Bradley***

19 How a 6-week trip turned into 4-years(and counting) on the road

***Shoutout Scout’s Barbershop, Kenji Kuramoto***

23 Try traveling with your toilet, it’s insane! It’s so good!

***Shoutout outschool.com***

29 Hiring process: Giving people a chance to test us out is more important than us testing them out

***Shoutout Teach:able, Videoask by Typeform, Trakstar, CloudAccountingJobs.com, Belay***

38 Zachary asks Chad if they give potential clients the “try before you buy” experience

***Shoutout Bubble, Emily Spanik***

44 NO-CODE and how Chad and Co were able to create their own tools 

***Shoutout Twilio, Make (formerly Integromat), Stripe, Realize, Alex Oxford and TaxValet***

52 Changing the way we think about employee compensation

53 Being in the New Mexico Desert in an RV... we're getting a Breaking Bad vibe

***Shoutout Ignition, Relay, Fiverr***