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[00:00:00.000] - Alice Hello. Welcome to Books in the Biz, a podcast that looks at both the financial and operational sides of success. Please welcome our hosts, Dan Paulson and Richard Veltre.   [00:00:16.450] - Alice Dan is the CEO of Envision Development International, and he works with leaders to increase sales and profits through great cultures with solid operations.   [00:00:25.270...

[00:00:02.060] - Alice The Books and the Biz, a podcast that looks at both the financial and operational sides of success. Please welcome our hosts, Dan Paulson and Richard Veltre. Dan is the CEO of Envision Development International, and he works with leaders to increase sales and profits through great cultures with solid operations. Rich is CEO of the Veltre Group and a financial strategist work...

[00:00:01.140] - Alice Welcome to Books in the Biz, a podcast that looks at both the financial and operational sides of success. Please welcome our hosts, Dan Paulson and Richard Veltre. Dan is the CEO of InVision Development International, and he works with leaders to increase sales and profits through great cultures with solid operations. Rich is CEO of the Veltre Group and a financial strategis...

[00:00:01.160] - Alice This is the Books in the Biz, a podcast that looks at both the financial and operational sides of success. Please welcome our hosts, Dan Paulson and Richard Veltre.   [00:00:13.310] - Alice Dan is the CEO of Envision Development International, and he works with leaders to increase sales and profits through great cultures with solid operations.   [00:00:22.140] - Al...

[00:00:01.590] - Alice Welcome to Books in the Biz, a podcast that looks at both the financial and operational sides of success. Please welcome our hosts, Dan Paulson and Richard Veltre. Dan is the CEO of Envision Development International, and he works with leaders to increase sales and profits through great cultures with solid operations. Rich is CEO of the Veltre Group and a financial strategis...

[00:00:00.000] - Alice Welcome to Books in the Biz, a podcast that looks at both the financial and operational sides of success. Please welcome our hosts, Dan Paulson and Richard Veltre. Dan is the CEO of Envision Development International, and he works with leaders to increase sales and profits through great cultures with solid operations.   [00:00:26.770] - Alice Rich is CEO of the Veltre G...

[00:00:01.510] - Alice Welcome to Books in the Biz, a podcast that looks at both the financial and operational sides of success. Please welcome our hosts, Dan Paulson and Richard Veltre. Dan is the CEO of Envision Development International, and he works with leaders to increase sales and profits through great cultures with solid operations. Rich is CEO of the Veltre Group and a financial strategis...

[00:00:00.380] - Alice Welcome to Books in the Biz, a podcast that looks at both the financial and operational sides of success.   [00:00:07.640] - Alice Please welcome our hosts, Dan Paulson and Richard Veltre. Dan is the CEO of Envision Development International, and he works with leaders to increase sales and profits through great cultures with solid operations. Rich is CEO of the Veltre G...

[00:00:00.000] - Alice Hello. Welcome to Books in the Biz, a podcast that looks at both the financial and operational sides of success. Please welcome our hosts, Dan Paulson and Richard Veltre. Dan is the CEO of Envision Development International, and he works with leaders to increase sales and profits through great cultures with solid operations. Rich is CEO of the Veltre Group and a financial st...

[00:00:00.000] - Alice Hello. Welcome to Books in the Biz, a podcast that looks at both the financial and operational sides of success. Please welcome our hosts, Dan Paulson and Richard Veltre. Dan is the CEO of Envision Development International, and he works with leaders to increase sales and profits through great cultures with solid operations. Rich is CEO of the Veltre Group and a financial st...

[00:00:00.000] - Alice Hello. Welcome to Books in the Biz, a podcast that looks at both the financial and operational sides of success. Please welcome our hosts, Dan Paulson and Richard Veltre. Dan is the CEO of Envision Development International, and he works with leaders to increase sales and profits through great cultures with solid operations. Rich is CEO of the Veltre Group and a financial st...

[00:00:00.000] - Alice Hello. Welcome to Books in the Biz, a podcast that looks at both the financial and operational sides of success. Please welcome our hosts, Dan Paulson and Richard Veltre. Dan is the CEO of Envision Development International, and he works with leaders to increase sales and profits through great cultures with solid operations. Rich is CEO of the Veltre Group and a financial st...

[00:00:00.000] - Rich Veltre I think the only problem that I have is I don't really have a question out of it. I mean, I guess it's all a question, right? I've been seeing the change. Everything you talked about, I associate with coming up in the accounting industry since my first accounting job, I was writing things out. There was no computers. So now you see the trend from that point...

[00:00:00.790] - Dan Paulson Yeah, I agree with what you're saying there. Now, as somebody who might be a future employee or looking at, where is the work going to be in the future? Because I agree with you. Ai is going to assist in a lot of ways. It's going to eliminate certain jobs that exist now. But at the same point, that's going to free up other opportunities somewhere else. And...

[00:00:02.710] - Rich Veltre Ai is... I'll give you my personal perspective. Ai is extremely exciting and extremely scary at the exact same time.   [00:00:11.150] - Mark Stouse Yeah, I agree.   [00:00:12.750] - Rich Veltre So I am trying to stay more on the excited side because I do see a lot of benefits. I think, though, for me, I'm not in the science, right? I'm not in the...

[00:00:00.000] - Dan Paulson Hello and welcome to Books in the Biz. I am here with Rich Veltre. Rich, how are you doing? I'm good, Dan. How are you? I am doing wonderful. And we have another guest today, and this is going to be interesting discussion in AI, Mark Steuss. And your company is proof analytics, correct?   [00:00:24.420] - Rich Veltre That is correct.   [00:00:25.380] - Da...

Th[00:00:00.380] - Rich Veltre You guys are really hitting exactly what's been going through my mind, especially with my son, the ROI on the whole thing and where are you going to head? Because I want him to have a clear understanding of what it is, too, because he's going to be the one who winds up straddled with the debt. But, yeah, I think what you've done is fabulous, though. What...

[00:00:00.690] - Dan Paulson How about how's EVs affecting this? Because now you're taking a gas motor and you're replacing it with electric motor and a battery. How's that going to change the industry?   [00:00:12.220] - Jay Goninen It's definitely going to have an impact. It's still, if you look at EV adoption rates and you take California out of the mix, it's st...

[00:00:00.000] - Rich Veltre Well, you piqued my interest on one thing, and that was that in your industry, because Dan and I have had a lot of conversations about motivation of people, et cetera. And so when you said that people are in the industry for two years and then they leave. And my industry, I can get that, right? Everybody wants to go work for the big firm, and then they find that traini...

[00:00:07.110] - Dan Paulson Hello, and welcome to another episode of Books and the Biz. I am back here with Rich Veltre. Rich, how are you doing?   [00:00:13.870] - Rich Veltre I'm doing fabulous. Dan, how are you?   [00:00:15.940] - Dan Paulson I'm doing great. And we have another guest today. So we're continuing our interview series. And I want to welcome Jay Goninen. How...

[00:00:00.000] - Dan Paulson What is MoonBoy up to next? You'll find out in this last episode with Vandross. Be sure to check it out. Take a listen.   [00:00:06.240] - Vandross Idiake What we're doing currently at Fast Track is because I'm building a startup, me and my team. We've already basically built out everything. Right now, we're looking for funding, and we're l...

[00:00:00.000] - Dan Paulson What would the discussion be on crypto if we didn't talk a little bit about Sam Bankman-Fried? Vandros is going to enlighten us on what went wrong and how to protect yourself. Take a listen. So before we... Because I do want to spend some time talking about how can we use this in business? Everything from transactions all the way up to merger and acquisition, sales...

[00:00:00.850] - Dan Paulson This is part three of our interview with Vandros Ediake. He covered so much as far as what we were talking about with crypto. I just couldn't get any of it out, so we broke it down into smaller parts. Here, he's going to talk about how you can use crypto internationally and how it works with different currencies. And we thought you might be interested in that a...

[00:00:00.890] - Dan Paulson Hey, all, this is part two of our interview with Vandross idiake. He is going to talk a little bit more about how crypto can be a hedge on inflation. Be sure to check it out.   [00:00:08.770] - Dan Paulson  Well, I think that a lot of what you said, as you pointed out, we tend to think of it from the west point of view, because again, it's very common for...

[00:00:00.810] - Dan Paulson Hello and welcome to books and the biz. I am here with Vandross, idiake, and Rich Veltre. I had enough trouble getting Rich's name right. I need to make sure I got yours.   [00:00:14.530] - Vandross Idiake Yeah, yeah.   [00:00:15.760] - Dan Paulson So this is one of our first interview sessions. So up until now, you've just seen Rich and I on the podc...