Season 2 Episode 23 | 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

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