The Accounting Messiah
Season 1 Episode 5
FACULTY: Ryan Lazanis, Jason Ackerman
CLASS: #Shoperations
TITLE: The Accounting Messiah
In this podcast episode, Scott and Ackerman interview Ryan Lazanis, the Founder of Future Firm, Xen Accounting, and a strategic advisor at BotKeeper. The discussion covers Ryan's journey into accounting, his introduction to cloud accounting and subscription billing, experiences with hiring the first employees, scalability challenges and strategies, considerations about clients and niche specialization, the evolutionary path of his firm, discovering his purpose, the process of selling his firm, the inception of Future Firm, common mistakes made by firms, the dynamics between competition and community, and cautionary advice regarding automation and other aspects within the accounting domain.
- How Ryan Got Into Accounting
- Introduction into Cloud Accounting and Subscription Billing
- First Hires
- Scalability
- Clients and Niching
- Evolution of the Firm
- Finding His Purpose
- Selling the Firm
- Starting Future Firm
- Biggest Mistakes Firms Make
- Competition vs Community
- Caution with Automation and other Sage Advice
Shout Outs:
Marie Phillips, Dark Horse, Xero, Padgett, Crunch Bookkeeping
00:07:17 Introduction into Cloud Accounting and Subscription Billing
00:46:29 Caution with Automation and other Sage Advice