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- Be Better with Data, Do Better with Data. My Response to #StopAsianHate Campaign.
From Mercedes Benz USA to Cox Automotive to Big Media, the #StopAsianHate campaign has forced many to speak out against the anti-Asian sentiment that has been permeating in our culture. In particular, there was a report that many have cited to support the anti-Asian sentiment, Stop AAPI Hate National Report. Upon scrutinizing and analyzing the data, it is very incomplete and certainly not a report that we should be basing policy or even organizational decisions on. The data is a good starting point, and we need the proficiency and competency of data scientists to help discern what is important, what is not important, and what are we missing.
If indeed there is an anti-Asian sentiment in the United States (and beyond), then we need to raise the bar of the data collection process. We need to improve the surveys to produce more accurate results. We need to collaborate with other entities and data sets to produce more meaningful data.
Be better with data. Do better with data. So we can make better decisions.
Notes | Resources- Stop AAPI Hate Report | Link
- FBI Crime Statistics | Link
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By Automotive Executives, For Automotive EntrepreneursFounder and Host, Dennis Wisco, takes his Business Class listeners through the culture and society of automotive business. Subscribe and follow the money to know where you can #maketheinvestment.✌(-‿-)✌17 min - On Bob Woodward, Franchise Business Model vs Franchise Law feat. Rhett RicartRhett Ricart is the Dealer Principal of Ricart Automotive Group based in Columbus Ohio. In episode #167, Ricart shares more behind the scences insight into his interview with Bob Woodward. Additionally, the outspoken Ricart is never one to back down from introducing "tension into the system." Dennis and Rhett get into a lively discussion regarding how the franchise business model is limited-bound due to franchise law.About Rhett RicartRhett Ricart is CEO and owner of Ricart Automotive Group, in Columbus, Ohio. Ricart Ford was founded in June 1953, by his father, Paul Ricart Sr. It was his father's philosophy that in order to lead, you have to work alongside the employees first so he started out washing cars and worked in every aspect of the business.In 1982, Rhett and his brother, Fred, assumed ownership of the dealership. Today, they employ more than 500 and annually sell approximately 14,000 new and used vehicles across six new product lines. Ricart was the 2020 chairman of the National Automobile Dealers Association and represents Ohio's franchised new-car dealers on the board of directors.Related Episodes
- The Social Entrepreneur and Her $100 Million Bond
- To Creatively Problem Solve, Be Disciplined
- The Anti-Planner of Government Planning
- Cash is King, or Cash for Clunkers
- The Correlation of Homes Sales to Auto Sales
- Vanlife Mini Series: Home Is Where You Park It
Notes | Resources- Rhett Ricart | Email
- Ricart Automotive Group | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter
- Musicians Against Cancer | Web
- Intro song | Minor Change by Maya Isac | Spotify
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By Automotive Executives, For Automotive EntrepreneursFounder and Host, Dennis Wisco, takes his Business Class listeners through the culture and society of automotive business. Subscribe and follow the money to know where you can #maketheinvestment.Wisco Weekly is proudly supported by automotiveMastermind. Visit automotivemastermind.com to learn more about predictive analytics and marketing automation.
✌(-‿-)✌1 hr 27 min - The Used Car Salesman to the World feat. Dan OscarsonDan Oscarson is the Vice President of Global Business Development for IAA, Inc. (NYSE: IAA). In his role, he travels to explore new market opportunities for the export-import of US vehicles to countries like United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Belarus, Honduras, Ghana, Nigeria, to name a few. Tune in to hear Dan's journey on building out an internationall export business.About Dan OscarsonDan Oscarson began his career as an auction manager and learned the car-auction business from the ground up. He transitioned into a full-time marketing role in 1998 and directed all corporate marketing activity during a period of intense growth that included the introduction of an online bidding platform, and an increase in physical auction locations from 47, to over 150 in 2013. Between 2007 and 2013, he focused exclusively on all global buyer marketing activity and strengthened auction attendance with new buyers—both domestic and international—and contributed to a significant increase to the average vehicle selling price. Since 2013, Dan has dedicated his efforts full time on the development of international markets where approx. 30% of IAA's 1.6M vehicles sold each year are currently being exported.Related Episodes
- John Kett
- The Anti-Planner of Government Planning
- The Correlation of Homes Sales to Auto Sales
- Xos Trucks SPAC Offering
- COVID Mini Series: Upward Social Mobility
- Vanlife Mini Series: Home Is Where You Park It
Notes | Resources- Dan Oscarson | LinkedIn | IAA
- Intro song | El Rio Fluye by Reuven Bransburg | Spotify
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By Automotive Executives, For Automotive EntrepreneursFounder and Host, Dennis Wisco, takes his Business Class listeners through the culture and society of automotive business. Subscribe and follow the money to know where you can #maketheinvestment.Wisco Weekly is proudly supported by automotiveMastermind. Visit automotivemastermind.com to learn more about predictive analytics and marketing automation.
✌(-‿-)✌1 hr - Invest in Community, and Honor Thy Mother feat. Kelley LaFontaineKelley LaFontaine is the Vice President of LaFontaine Automotive Group, and an active investor in her community. Whether it is supporting cancer research to helping small businesses, Kelley shares her recipe on why it's important to be actively involved in your community and how she does it.About Kelley LaFontaine
Kelley oversees the day-to-day operations of the LaFontaine Automotive Group consisting of 41 different franchises, 22 retail locations and seven body shops across Southeast Michigan. She directs all of the organization's grassroots marketing initiatives and launched the LaFontaine Business to Business department that now thrives across the entire automotive group. Kelley's out-of-the-box thinking led to the opening of the Lady La Boutique and Oh la la Cafe inside the LaFontaine's flagship Cadillac, Buick, GMC dealership in Highland, Michigan.With heart for giving back that reaches far beyond her own backyard, Kelley sits on the board of three non-profit organizations including U CAN-CER VIVE Foundation, Angels of Hope and Project 1. She is also involved in the Automotive Women's Alliance and Inforum Automotive Next. Kelley is the past chairperson of the Huron Valley Optimist Childhood Cancer Campaign as well as the past Preident of the Clarkston Area Chamber of Commerce. She has been a humble recipient of many remarkable awards including the 2011 Leukemia Lymphona Society National Woman of the Year, 2012 Civic Leadership Award, the 2012 D-Business 30 in Their 30's honor, Twilight Civic Leadership Award in 2012, winner of RARE Everyday Heroes Award in 2012, 2014 Oakland County Executive Elite 40 Under 40 award, and the Angels of Hope Chairman's Award in 2015 and 2016. Kelley is also proud to have received the nationally recognized Dealer of the Year award, alongside her family, at LaFontaine Cadillac Buick GMC of Highland for eight years running.Related Episodes- The Social Entrepreneur and her $100 Million Bond
- A Guide for Daughters in Automotive
- The Correlation of Homes Sales to Auto Sales
- Business Insights and Strategies from NADA 2021
- COVID Mini Series: Upward Social Mobility
- Vanlife Mini Series: Home Is Where You Park It
Notes | Resources- Kelley LaFontaine | LaFontaine Automotive Group
- U CAN-CER VIVE Foundation | Web
- Intro song | WEARETHEGOOOD | Spotify
***** Wisco Weekly *****Founder and Host, Dennis Wisco, takes his Business Class listeners through the culture and society of automotive business. Subscribe and follow the money to know where you can #maketheinvestment.✌(-‿-)✌1 hr 12 min - Xos Trucks SPAC Offering, and Worst Month End to Stock Market
To end the month of February, host Dennis Wisco shares some insight into the latest transportation company to declare their intentions to go public via a Special Purpose Acqusition Company (SPAC). Xos Trucks is a leading commercial electric vehicle OEM and they will be merging with NextGen Acquisition Corp (Nasdaq: NGAC) in quarter two of 20201.
Notes | Resources- Xos Trucks | SPAC Announcement
- Intro song | Brooke Alexx | Spotify
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- Business Insights and Strategies from NADA 2021 feat. Randy KobatSenior Vice President of Operations at vAuto, Randy Kobat guests on episode #163 of Wisco Weekly which recaps and analyzes NADA 2021. Randy and Dennis weigh in on the franchise business model versus franchise law, discuss if business schools are meeting the needs of the automotive industry, and Randy shares where he would invest his money that would be most meaningful to him.About Randy Kobat
Randy Kobat is vice president of operations and inventory management solutions for vAuto, Rebates & Incentives, KBB ICO and related products. In this role, Randy oversees all aspects of operations and performance for these companies and segments of Cox Automotive, helping them meet their respective goals for growth, product development and integration, and customer and employee satisfaction. Randy brings a unique blend of executive leadership expertise to vAuto that includes long-term planning, marketing, mergers and acquisitions, operations, sales management, and strategy development.Prior to joining Cox Automotive, Randy successfully held a variety of top-level leadership positions for automotive-related companies including Service Repair Solutions Inc., Trilogy Enterprises and CDK. Randy has also served as a business leadership lecturer for the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University, the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and other business schools.Randy earned a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Northern Illinois University and an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.Related Episodes- The Social Entrepreneur and her $100 Million Bond
- Cash is King, or Cash for Clunkers
- The Correlation of Homes Sales to Auto Sales
- COVID Mini Series: Upward Social Mobility
- Vanlife Mini Series: Home Is Where You Park It
Notes | Resources- Randy Kobat | Twitter | LinkedIn
- vAuto Podcast | Web
- Intro song | Ben Bostick | Spotify
***** Wisco Weekly *****Founder and Host, Dennis Wisco, takes his Business Class listeners through the culture and society of automotive business. Subscribe and follow the money to know where you can #maketheinvestment.✌(-‿-)✌1 hr 1 min - The Social Entrepreneur and Her $100 Million BondAt this moment, Michelle Corson, Founder and CEO of On The Road Companies, has a current initiative to raise capital for her existing operation. The initiative is called The Sustainability Bond Issuance Framework and seeks to greenify On The Road Companies by raising $100 million through the bond market. Tune in to hear this social entrepreneur on how she has built her company brick by brick.About Michelle
After a successful career in finance and development, Michelle founded Champion Impact Capital in 2011 to encourage impact investing in Texas, bringing capital markets dollars to scale solutions for community needs.Champion has led ideation on projects using various creative financial tools such as social impact bonds, green bonds, social purpose private equity funds, ESG investments, and social purpose REITs.Michelle founded On the Road Companies to empower working Americans to have the opportunity to take the best jobs available to them with dignity and create a prosperity movement that will propel our country and its citizens to achieve their dreams and live their best lives.Related Episodes- The Correlation with Home Sales to Auto Sales
- Randal O’Toole | Cato Institute
- The ETF Horserace
- Upward Social Mobility (*Mini Series)
- Home Is Where You Park It (Vanlife Mini Series)
Notes | Resources- Michelle Corson | LinkedIn | On The Road Companies
- Sustainability Bond Issuance Framework | PDF
- Intro song | Benj Heard | Spotify
***** Wisco Weekly *****Founder and Host, Dennis Wisco, takes his Business Class listeners through the culture and society of automotive business. Subscribe and follow the money to know where you can #maketheinvestment.✌(-‿-)✌1 hr 3 min - The Correlation of Home Sales to Auto Sales feat. Jonathan SmokeA prior economist at Realtor.com and currently serving as the Chief Economist at Cox Automotive, Jonathan Smoke shares some valuable macro trends that we can follow as a result of the booming housing market. Tune in to hear about the democratization of car ownership versus home ownership, credit worthiness, interest rates and inflation, and the latest index developed by Jonathan’s team, the Vehicle Affordability Index.About Jonathan
Smoke leads Cox Automotive’s economic industry insights office. This office is tasked with leveraging data to expand Cox Automotive’s deep expertise in all aspects of the automotive industry. His focus is to connect the data from all of the company’s businesses and platforms and relate to economic, industry and demographic trends.Prior to joining Cox Automotive, Smoke served as Realtor.com’s chief economist. Before that, he was the chief economist for Hanley Wood, a media and market intelligence company, and also served in a variety of roles at Beazer Homes, including senior vice president of strategy and innovation.Smoke was named one of “the 21 most interesting people in real estate” by Inman News and was the only economist to make the list in 2016. He is quoted in national news outlets and has published more than 150 original articles. Smoke blogs regularly and tweets using Twitter handle @SmokeonCars to share his industry insights.Smoke holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and religious studies from Rhodes College and a master’s degree in business from The University of Texas at Austin.Related Episodes- Cash is King, or Cash for Clunkers
- The ETF Horserace
- John Kett of IAA, Inc.
- Home Is Where You Park It (Vanlife Mini Series)
Notes | Resources- Jonathan Smoke | Twitter | Spotify
- Cox Automotive | Vehicle Affordability Index
- Intro song | Casey Parnell | Web
***** Wisco Weekly *****Founder and Host, Dennis Wisco, takes his Business Class listeners through the culture and society of automotive business. Subscribe and follow the money to know where you can #maketheinvestment.✌(-‿-)✌1 hr 13 min - Brian Allan | Hyrecar (HYRE) Back in 2019
Originally published in February of 2019, episode #160 features Brian Allan, the Senior Vice President at HyreCar (HYRE). With the tumultuous year of 2020, it’s good to look back on HyreCar’s share price’s rise, fall, and rise again dating back to this episode.
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