EP442: Spotlight - Tommy Vincent - How To Leverage AI For Business Success

Michael Palmer: I think what AI's gonna do is going to automate and replace a lot of redundant work that people do, right? It's not gonna replace— for us to replace a whole human being, I think we're underestimating how great of work that the average human can do and all the dynamic things they can do. But there are redundant tasks. You're listening to the Spotlight Edition of The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Louie Prosperi. 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 The Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I'm Louie Prosperi. Our guest is the VP of Sales at HubAnalytics, Tommy Vincent. Welcome to the show. Thank you, sir. Glad to be here. Appreciate you guys having us on. Oh, it's our pleasure. I'm really looking forward to this, uh, this interview because you're bringing something very unique to our, to our industry. And I, I can't wait to start talking about it, but before we start, let, Let's get to know a little bit about Tommy's. Tell me about your career and how you ended up at HubAnalytics.

Spotlight: Yeah, absolutely. So, my background, I would call it primarily technology. That's where I kind of cut my teeth in, in the industry. And it was different technologies over the course of a couple of decades. You know, most of my experience is at the intersection of entrepreneurship, technology, and accounting, as it turns out. So, But I spent a lot of time in Silicon Valley and I had the benefit early on in my career to get exposed to some pretty sizable technology exits, uh, venture capital funded businesses. We sold one of them, uh, early into my career to Microsoft for, uh, a little over a billion dollars, um, back in 2011. Um, and that kind of took me off into a direction. It was quite fun. But as things evolved, um, I became more involved in the entrepreneurship side and looking to help small businesses. That's in fact where My dad was an entrepreneur and my grandpa was an entrepreneur. So, um, I started to kind of lean more into the earlier sides of businesses versus being funded by $50 million or hundreds of dollars. So, and that's where I found my comfortable place, you know, and I really enjoy this intersection of technology entrepreneurship and, and now accounting. But yeah, I