EP306: Spotlight - Martin Chee - Elevating Your Bookkeeping With Automation

Michael Palmer: even though you were getting the green light at every step of the way and getting amazing feedback, that, you know, was no guarantee that you were going to get anything on the other side of it. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to The Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I'm your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a good one. Our guest is the CFO and co-founder of Amica, which is a cloud-based platform that allows business owners, professional accountants, and bookkeepers to automate accounting operations. Martin Chee, welcome to the podcast. Thanks, Michael. Great to be here. It's great to have you. And Martin, I'm sure our listener is wondering and would love to learn more about you. So why don't you tell us a little bit about your career journey leading up to this point where you co-founded Amica?

Martin Chee (June 30): Well, I mean, in, in the earliest, earliest stages of my career, I was actually in, in hospitality, which my, uh, my father, he and his family, they were always, uh, in hospitality. And he, uh, he owned a Chinese restaurant for a number of years. And, you know, being a family business, you kind of get roped into, roped into these things. And, you know, so I kind of, kind of started there. Washing dishes, serving tables, and then, you know, managing, managing things. And at the same time, I was studying a degree in business and majoring in accounting and HR, and managed to pick up a job in accounting as well. So I was kind of juggling, juggling a few things, and it was an interesting time to get into accounting. I mean, I I always had an interest in computers and technology. And, you know, when I was a lot, a lot younger, I used to be one of those kids that would pull apart a computer and put it back together again and like to understand how everything kind of worked. And, you know, I think that kind of set me up well. It was always there in terms of, you know, the interest I had in accounting technology in particular. Um, so I think that was something that was always in the back of my mind. But, um, you know, in terms of the startup, the startup journey, uh, my best