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The Gonzaga Bulldogs are going to face some tough decisions now that the Pac-12 is falling apart as a casualty of college football's conference realignment party. While it's unclear if the Pac-12, Mountain West, or Big East will be realistic destinations for Mark Few's squad, it does present a handful of new questions for the Spokane school. Today is mailbag Monday, and discussing Gonzaga's realignment concerns is just one of many topics covered, including: Who will be Gonzaga's rival in the Big East? Will the big budgets of the Big Ten and SEC dominate college basketball? How many of Dom Harris, Nolan Hickman, and Hunter Sallis will be back for 23-24? Could Efton Reid be the next Walker Kessler? Is Dusty Stromer a potential one-and-done? Will Braden Huff play as a freshman? And more! Danny Evans GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-coach-danny-evans-his-children Jeremy Eaton GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/r8yj3-jeremys-cancer-fund https://linktr.ee/LockedOnZags Locked on Zags - Part of the Locked on Podcast Network. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. PrizePicks Don't hesitate, check out PrizePicks.com and use promo code: “LOCKEDON” or go to your app store and download the app today. PrizePicks is daily fantasy made easy! NetSuite Over twenty-seven thousand businesses already use NetSuite and RIGHT NOW through the end of the year NetSuite is offering a one-of-a-kind financing program to those ready to upgrade at NetSuite.com/LOCKEDONNCAA.  C3fXiHupJDC9byuRc45r Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

1. Shopify Announces Audience During Their Semi-Annual Showcase - Shopify Editions is Shopify's new semi-annual showcase demonstrating the speed and breadth of innovation at Shopify to bring merchants into the future. Per Shopify, they are powering a radically different model of commerce: Connect to Consumer (C2C). To help merchants embrace C2C, they unveiled an entirely new B2B offering, launching Tokengated Commerce, partnered with Google to help consumers shop local, brought commerce to Twitter,  launched Tap to Pay on iPhone—just to name a few.Shopify Audiences, a new marketing tool helps Shopify Plus merchants find new customers. Using Shopify's unique view on purchase intent and their merchant network helps identify buyers who are looking for your products. Then create and export high-interest audiences to ad platforms like Facebook.Other notable things announced at Shopify Editions are:a.) B2B on Shopify makes it seamless for Shopify Plus merchants to sell to other businesses on the same platform that they use for D2C. Say goodbye to spreadsheets, one-off invoices, and manual data entry. Not to mention, they've also partnering with ERP providers such as NetSuite, Brightpearl, and Acumatica to automatically integrate merchants' essential data with their B2B solution.b.) With Shopify's offline GMV growing nearly 80% year over year in Q1 2022, they figured out that in-person shopping is coming back in a big way—and they want a piece of the pie. That's why they're one of the first commerce platforms to launch Tap to Pay on iPhone in the U.S. in partnership with Stripe. Currently in early access with select Shopify point-of-sale merchants, Tap to Pay on iPhone will be fully available in the U.S. in the coming months.With Tap to Pay on iPhone, they're lowering the barrier to entry for Shopify merchants to expand into offline retail for the first time without needing extra hardware or investment. Per Shopify, “Think farmers markets, new pop-up experiences, test shops for established merchants to expand to new physical locations. Enabling Tap to Pay on iPhone will broaden the possibilities in offline commerce, giving merchants who haven't yet tried in-person selling an easy way to connect with customers IRL.”c.) Local Inventory on Google . Turning browsers into local buyers. We know that nearly all U.S. consumers have searched for local businesses online, with more than a third searching multiple times every week. Shopify is about to improve those searches in a big way with local inventory sync on Google, available through Shopify's Google channel. Now, Shopify merchants can automatically let nearby customers know when a product is available in store. Shopping local has never been more convenient. Local inventory sync on Google is globally available via Shopify's Google channel to merchants using Shopify's point-of-sale app.You can find all the details here.2. Twitter Launches New Shopify Integration - Social commerce continues to be a growing opportunity for merchants. Orders placed with Shopify merchants through partner integrations quadrupled YoY in the first quarter of 2022. Sometimes, a brand's biggest audience is the one they haven't tapped. Twitter's hundreds of millions of users represent potential connections for independent merchants, and that's why Shopify is the first commerce platform to partner with Twitter as it continues to scale its Twitter Shopping ecosystem. In fact, shopping-related Tweets saw 40-billion impressions over the last year alone. Using Shopify's new Twitter sales channel, merchants can reach consumers directly from their Twitter profiles, creating a frictionless path to purchase in today's digital townsquare. This will enable Shopify merchants to list their products on their Twitter Professional Profiles, with each item, when tapped, then redirecting users to the Shopify product page to make a purchase.Twitter's shopping features include Twitter Shops and Shop Spotlight, and, starting today, both are available for free to all Shopify U.S. merchants selling to U.S. consumers. “The Twitter sales channel makes it quicker and easier to meet our customers wherever they are,” said Jessica Stevens, Senior Social Media Manager at Trixie Cosmetics. “The automatic syncing is going to help us save so much time, and the sales channel allows me to easily connect the two platforms that we already tap into to sell products and engage with customers.”3. Twitter Releases Twitter Write, Notes Feature - Finally available on some user profiles, Twitter's new "Notes" feature offers a quick, seamless method to include lengthy text pieces in your tweets. The Notes UI is quite simple and has all the standard features of a blog post composer, such as the ability to add header pictures, insert photos and links within the text, and a quick way to add tweets.Once posted, Notes will display as a Twitter card that directs users to the complete article. You have a lot more area for your longer-form content on the app because Note titles are only allowed to be 100 characters long and the body of a Note can be up to 2,500 words.Additionally, unlike tweets, notes can be edited after they are published, and a "Edited" label will be appended at the top of the note.4. LinkedIn Updates Event Engagement Options & Simplifies ‘Repost' Process - In order to promote on-topic conversation and interaction within LinkedIn Events, LinkedIn is now introducing new comment engagement options. You may now interact with participants before, during, and after the session by using the Comments tab of a LinkedIn event. You can also reply to particular comments in-stream. With more than 24,000 events being added to the app each week as of this writing, the option is intended to take advantage of LinkedIn Events engagement. Furthermore, LinkedIn recently added LinkedIn Events to its simplified "Boost" ad option, giving users another method to promote their LinkedIn event listings.p.s. Users are currently starting to see the enhanced Comments choices in-stream as the option is being rolled out.Additionally, LinkedIn is making it simpler to share updates on LinkedIn by adding a new, streamlined "Repost" option to the "Share" menu. When you tap the "Share" prompt, a new "Repost" option will soon be available, allowing you to share without leaving a comment (currently your only option). By removing the requirement for users to contribute their own commentary to every re-share, this will make it simpler to share posts.5. Will Google Crawl URLs In Structured Data? - Does Google crawl alternative kinds of links like those found in structured data? Google's John Mueller answered:“So for the most part, when we look at HTML pages, if we see something that looks like a link, we might go off and kind of like try that URL out as well. That's something where if we find a URL in JavaScript, we can try to pick that up and try to use it. If we find a link in kind of a text file on a site, we can try to crawl that and use it.”Do not blindly assume that just because a link is in structured data means it will or will not be indexed.He recommends that if you want Google to go off and crawl that URL, make sure that there's a natural HTML link to that URL, with a clear anchor text as well, that you give some information about the destination page. If you don't want Google to crawl that specific URL, then maybe block it with robots.txt or on that page use a rel=canonical pointing to your preferred version, anything like that.6. Google Crawls And Indexes The First 15MB - The Googlebot help page has been updated to reflect the fact that Googlebot will only crawl the first 15MB of a page before stopping. Therefore, if you want to make sure that Google ranks your website appropriately, make sure that the first 15MB of the page can be crawled and indexed by Googlebot.Generally speaking, you should aim to keep your pages as lightweight as possible for both users and search engine crawlers. However, Google is being very upfront about how much of your website it will use here.Using the URL Inspection tool in Google Search Console to examine what portions of the page Google renders and detects in the debugging tool is an excellent approach to test this.7. Google: Images Can Impact Your Rankings - You might not be aware, but the images on your website might affect how well it ranks in Google Search results.If the image dimensions on a web page are not specified, the page's content may move about while the image loads. This is interpreted by Google Search as a bad signal.The solution is as easy as including the width and height attributes in the image's HTML code.8. Google: Keywords In Domain Names Are Overrated - Keywords in domain names are overstated, according to John Mueller of Google. He repeated what he and other Google employees have said countless times over the years. He advised choosing something for the long term and for your business instead.9. Google: It's OK To Link Your WhatsApp Number - John Mueller from Google stated on Twitter that including a link to your WhatsApp number on your website is not a negative SEO strategy. Contrary to what some SEO toolkits claim, connecting to a WhatsApp, phone, or fax number is acceptable, and Google does not evaluate your site differently dependent on the type of number you link to.10. Google: Do This For Product Variants Pages - When a product is offered in a variety of sizes or colors, ecommerce sites generally take URL structure into consideration. A product variant is any combination of a product's attributes. For product variants, Google supports a broad variety of URL configurations.To help Google understand which variant is best to show in Search, choose one of the product variant URLs as the canonical URL for the product.The following restrictions apply if you decide to display many product variants on a single page (i.e., if the variants all have the same URL). The page may be ineligible for Product rich results in search results because the experience is only supported for pages holding a single product (and product variants may be treated as distinct products by Google Search). Experiences such as Google Shopping cannot take a user to a specific variant of a product on your site, leading to the user needing to select the variant they wish to purchase on your site before checkout. This can lead to a poor user experience if the shopper already selected the variant they wanted in Google Shopping. If you choose to use a distinct URL per variant, Google recommends using either: A path segment, such as /t-shirt/green  A query parameter, such as /t-shirt?color=green 11. Google Changes Requirements For Local Service Ads - Google has increased the requirements for local service ads, mandating five reviews. This is an increase over the prior requirement of simply requiring one review.According to Ginny Marvin of Google's AdsLiaison, "The procedure for placing an ad with Local Services Ads has not changed; rather, the quantity of reviews has increased from 1 to 5. More customer testimonials increase credibility and increase the likelihood of connecting with prospective customers."Industries that now need five reviews are: Real estate agents and brokers Lawyer for personal injuries HVAC Companies Home Cleaning Companies Tree care/services companies Roofing 12. Updates From Google SEODay - John Mueller, a Google Search Advocate, discussed improvements to the search engine's scoring system and the effect of page experience on rankings at an online session at SEODay 2022.Google now bases desktop search results on a site's desktop experience and mobile search results on a site's mobile experience, among other modifications that were made public.The search engine calculates experience scores using three main metrics: largest contentful paint (LCP), first input delay (FID), and cumulative layout shift (CLS)."Interactivity to next page," often known as INP, is a new page experience statistic that Google has added. Other things that came out of SEODay are: Users can create custom reports and obtain a fresh perspective on the data by using analytics and Search Console data.  Videos & Images Take On More Prominent Role In Search - “We see that people love videos and authentic images in search results, so we try to show them more,” Mueller said. Google now offers a WordPress plugin for creating Web stories - A collection of pages that often have videos. Authentic Product Reviews Factored Into Rankings - “People have high expectations of reviews they find online, so we've also worked specifically on updates to algorithms with regards to ranking these product reviews,” he said.

Mark Few frequently draws criticism for how he coaches the Gonzaga Bulldogs, specifically regarding rotations, in-game adjustments, and the inability for his team's to win it all or handle physicality. Are those concerns justified, and will fans in Spokane see the coach making any adjustments heading into the 2022-2023 season? Today is mailbag Monday, and discussing Gonzaga's lineup concerns is just one of many topics covered, including: Making a lineup of Zags who left early for the NBA draft Favorite NBA draft sleeper Odds of Joel Ayayi or Jamaree Bouyea sticking in the NBA? Which Zag in the NBA will win a championship next? Will the Women's team earn a Top 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament? The Truong Twins and their trip to Vietnam And more! Danny Evans GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-coach-danny-evans-his-children Jeremy Eaton GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/r8yj3-jeremys-cancer-fund https://linktr.ee/LockedOnZags Locked on Zags - Part of the Locked on Podcast Network. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. PrizePicks Don't hesitate, check out PrizePicks.com and use promo code: “LOCKEDON” or go to your app store and download the app today. PrizePicks is daily fantasy made easy! NetSuite Over twenty-seven thousand businesses already use NetSuite and RIGHT NOW through the end of the year NetSuite is offering a one-of-a-kind financing program to those ready to upgrade at NetSuite.com/LOCKEDONNCAA.  C3fXiHupJDC9byuRc45r Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jonathan Reisman is a physician and author of The Unseen Body who has practiced medicine in some of the most remote places in the world. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Lambda: https://lambdalabs.com/lex – InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/lex to get 20% off – Fundrise: https://fundrise.com/lex – Onnit: https://lexfridman.com/onnit to get up to 10% off – NetSuite: http://netsuite.com/lex to get free product tour EPISODE LINKS: Jonathan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonreismanMD Jonathan's Instagram: https://instagram.com/jonreismanmd Jonathan's Website: http://jonathanreisman.com The Unseen Body (book): https://amzn.to/3Fyycw0 PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/lexfridman YouTube Clips: https://youtube.com/lexclips SUPPORT

"Oh, that's Mrs. Bennett, sweetheart. My husband and I are divorced, but I kept the “Mrs.” just to piss off the new wife." Morning, honey-pile—this episode is about Jo Bennett! We talk about her acquisition of Dunder Mifflin, her dynamic with Michael, Gabe, and the rest of the staff, and her overall role in the show. And naturally we cover all of the colorful, lawless swamps, non-sensical videos with Christian Slater, and exploding printers that make up her time on the show. Then we head to the Conference Room where we talk about other companies having issues and injuries with coal walks before talking about our own experiences with corporate team building. Oh, you don't become the most powerful podcast in Tallahassee by slacking off. You do it by working hard. Or marrying rich. We did both! This episode is sponsored by NetSuite!  Right now, NetSuite is offering a one-of-a-kind financing program, so graduating has never been easier. Head to NetSuite.com/SCOTT right now for special financing! Support our show and become a member of Scott's Tots on Patreon! For only $5/month, Tots get ad-free episodes plus exclusive access to our monthly Mailbag episodes where we casually pick through every single message/question/comment we receive. We also have Season 2 of our Ted Lasso podcast Biscuits with the Boss available to our Patrons. On top of that, a portion of all show proceeds are donated every month to organizations that help fund education opportunities for minority students. Help us serve the mission that Michael Scott could not. You can also rep our show with some merch! Head over to mspcstore.com and get your hands on some nifty gifties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dave Ramsey & George Kamel discuss: What to do when you have no idea where your money is going, Should you start a GoFundMe to pay off debt when you get married? Choosing between career options. Support Our Sponsor: Splash Financial: https://bit.ly/2XAdOIf  NetSuite: https://bit.ly/2WBLh5c  Zander Insurance: https://bit.ly/2Xbn7hD  Want a plan for your money? Find out where to start: https://bit.ly/3nInETX Listen to all The Ramsey Network podcasts: https://bit.ly/3GxiXm6

It's a complex and ever-changing landscape for finance leaders, and now is the time to create change that will streamline and automate critical finance processes. In this episode of Q.pod, we will showcase a number of best practices for the optimization of finance processes powered by the NetSuite Planning and Budgeting (NSPB) platform.

Hoy Pau entrevista a Manuela González, Manager equipo Business Development Iberia en Oracle, con experiencia en otras empresas tecnológicas. En los últimos tiempos, Manuela se ha enfocado a ayudar a las personas que se inician en las ventas. Oracle es una de las mayores empresas mundiales de tecnología, poco hay que decir de ella, pues es internacionalmente conocida y lleva años dando soporte a grandes organizaciones. Manuela trabaja en NetSuite, que es un ERP de Oracle orientado a las PYMEs, nicho relativamente nuevo para Oracle. Puedes suscribirte a todos los podcast en el siguiente enlace: https://www.inboundcycle.com/podcast-marketing-leaders?hsLang=es.

George Kamel & Kristina Ellis discuss: Rising rent prices,  The freedom of being debt free,  Should teens be investing, The real price of credit card rewards. Support Our Sponsor: Churchill Mortgage: https://bit.ly/2JcfkGy  Netsuite: https://bit.ly/2WBLh5c  Want a plan for your money? Find out where to start: https://bit.ly/3nInETX Listen to all The Ramsey Network podcasts: https://bit.ly/3GxiXm6

Tony Fadell is an engineer and designer, co-creator of the iPod, iPhone, Nest Thermostat, and author of the new book Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Mailgun: https://lexfridman.com/mailgun – Scale: https://scale.com/lex – NetSuite: http://netsuite.com/lex to get free product tour – SimpliSafe: https://simplisafe.com/lex and use code LEX – Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex and use code LEX to get special savings EPISODE LINKS: Tony's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tfadell Tony's Website: https://tonyfadell.com Build (book): https://amzn.to/3xSReee Story (book): https://amzn.to/3Olzqhv PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ YouTube Full Episodes:

Miguel Leal, Co-Founder and CEO of SOMOS Foods, grew up eating delicious, authentic Mexican cuisine. Frustrated by the lack of great options in America for authentic, tasty, vegan Mexican food, he decided to partner with former Kind Snacks execs to make change happen. Learn more about Miguel's journey on this episode of #TheKaraGoldinShow. Sponsored by - NetSuite - Head to NetSuite.com/kara for a special one-of-a-kind financing offer. Enjoying this episode of #TheKaraGoldinShow? Let Kara know by clicking on the links below and sending her a quick shout-out on social or reach out to Kara Goldin directly at karagoldin@gmail.com Follow Kara Goldin on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karagoldin/ Follow Kara Goldin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karagoldin/ Follow Kara Goldin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/karagoldin Follow Kara Goldin on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KaraGoldin/ Check out our website to view show notes: https://karagoldin.com/podcast/258 List of links to resources mentioned in episode, suggested reading & social media handles: Check out SOMOS Foods' website: https://eatsomos.com/ Connect with Miguel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miguelleal/

Andi and Nico have a great back story. They've both walked away from traditional investment banking roles into the world of Bitcoin. They remind me of some investors we would come across in the early 2000s. No one could quite figure out which technology would survive the tech crash but some investors had extreme confidence and changed the world with their moves into Amazon, Salesforce.com and NetSuite. Today Ego Death Capital is poised to make some big moves of their own and on this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show we hear their stories and learn their approach. You can learn more about Andi Pitt and Nico Lechuga at EgoDeath.Capital or on Twitter @nico_lechuga and @1andipitt

Check out The Restart Roadmap: Rewire and Reset Your Career now!   In this week's episode, best-selling author, content producer, and world-renowned motivational speaker, Ben Nemtin, joins Jason as they dive behind the scenes of all things “The Buried Life” and the work behind motivational speaking. Ben gives insight on how to start working through your own bucket list and overcome the obstacles, what is next on his own bucket list, and the routes you can take to get into a speaking career. How were they funding The Buried Life at the start? What was the timeline from conception to airing on TV? What is the process of working as a motivational speaker? Ben reveals some of the most memorable moments of the show, how they negotiated to keep control over their content after landing at MTV, the importance of mental health, and how to make the impossible possible. It's another episode you can't afford to miss.    Pick up your own copy of Ben's new book “The Bucket List Journal” here.   Sponsors: Omahasteaks.com keyword SECRETS for 8 free Omaha Steaks burgers Netsuite.com/secrets for a one of a kind financing offer   Host: Jason Tartick Voice of Viewer: David Arduin Executive Producer: Evan Sahr   Produced by Dear Media.

The Gonzaga Bulldogs' roster is shaping up to look very similar to the 20-21 squad, which led by Jalen Suggs, Corey Kispert, and Drew Timme, played in the NCAA Championship before losing to the Baylor Bears. Will Mark Few learn from his mistakes, or is this team destined to suffer a similar fate due to a similar collection of flaws, namely rim protection and issues against physical guards? Today is mailbag Monday, and discussing Gonzaga's lineup concerns is just one of many topics covered, including: Ben Gregg's path to playing time Can this roster handle physicality? Comparing this year's team to 20-21 Which Zag in the NBA will win a championship next? Examining some buddy cop relationships among Gonzaga teammates Which Zags would make the best coaches? And more! Danny Evans GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-coach-danny-evans-his-children Jeremy Eaton GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/r8yj3-jeremys-cancer-fund https://linktr.ee/LockedOnZags Locked on Zags - Part of the Locked on Podcast Network. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. PrizePicks Don't hesitate, check out PrizePicks.com and use promo code: “LOCKEDON” or go to your app store and download the app today. PrizePicks is daily fantasy made easy! NetSuite Over twenty-seven thousand businesses already use NetSuite and RIGHT NOW through the end of the year NetSuite is offering a one-of-a-kind financing program to those ready to upgrade at NetSuite.com/LOCKEDONNCAA.  C3fXiHupJDC9byuRc45r Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How can you overcome your doubts and insecurities to show up for your mission? Lisa Bilyeu, cofounder of Quest Nutrition, Impact Theory, author, and founder and host of Women of Impact was a stay at home wife for 8 years, until she realized that compromising her dreams wasn't serving her or her husband. They pivoted, grew a billion dollar company together, and now she's made it her mission to empower people to become the hero of their own lives. She shares how you can summon radical confidence, how her 20+ year marriage has survived being in business together, how to change your mindset to take back power over the seemingly impossible, why you should approach every day like it's day one, and why showing up for the mission should always be your #1 reason for being in this journey. - Doors are open to Cathy's program Abundant Ever After! Sign up at Cathyheller.com/join - Get your copy of Lisa's book, Radical Confidence at radicalconfidence.com - Follow Lisa on Instagram @lisabilyeu - Watch Women of Impact on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/WomenofImpact - Thanks Shopify! For a free fourteen day trial go to shopify.com/dreamjob - Thanks Netsuite! Head to NetSuite.com/dreamjob for a special one-of-a-kind financing offer.

Hello and welcome to the 107th Episode of the Real Estate Asset Management Podcast! Building a Financial Backbone with Ben Lapidus.Ben is the Chief Financial Officer for Spartan Investment Group LLC, where he has applied his finance and business development skills to construct from scratch a portfolio of over $500M assets under management, build the corporate finance backbone for the organization, and organize over $200M of debt capital from the firm. Key Takeaways : Let's take a deep dive into the entrepreneurial journey with Ben LapidusHow did Ben get into data?What was it like to build a system like this?Discussion on Netsuite and Hedgehog PrincipleThe custom-built real estate accounting toolHow Data Integrity allows us to go faster and be more transparent with investors and stakeholdersAcquisitions, capital markets, accounting, and finance experiencesTweetables:” Jim Collins hedgehog principle is to find something that overlaps with three components of your life.Something that you're the best at, something that you be a category of one at, something that you really enjoy doing.You're passionate about, which isn't always the same as being, the best at and three something that's economically viable, something that you can make money with” Follow us:✅ Join our group for the latest updates – https://tinyurl.com/mhp5t6 ⠀✅ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/break-of-day-capital/                           https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-lipsky/ ✅ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/BreakofDayCapital✅ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/breakofdaycapital/Today's Show Sponsor :Garzella/Multifamily Risk Advisors https://garzellagroup.com/

"No, I'm not worried. Because this lie isn't for me, it's for Pam. And when she gets her body back and her confidence back… yes, I will tell her the truth. That I had feelings for a co-worker today that I haven't had in years. But in my defense, he was grabbing my crotch fairly aggressively at the time." We thought it might be fun to set Cathy up with someone. Do you have any ideas? This episode is all about Pam's Replacement from Season 8! We talk about the introduction of Cathy to the office and how the staff responds, as well as the warehouse musical stylings of Kevin and the Zits until Robert California shows up. And we make to mention all of the matchmaker tests, Midnight Ramblers, and long triangles that go into this episode. Then we head to the Conference Room for an Ordinary things segment before wrapping up with another round of trivia! Over twenty-nine thousand businesses already use NetSuite. Head to NetSuite.com/SCOTT for a special one-of-a-kind financing offer! Support our show and become a member of Scott's Tots on Patreon! For only $5/month, Tots get ad-free episodes plus exclusive access to our monthly Mailbag episodes where we casually pick through every single message/question/comment we receive. We also have Season 2 of our Ted Lasso podcast Biscuits with the Boss available to our Patrons. On top of that, a portion of all show proceeds are donated every month to organizations that help fund education opportunities for minority students. Help us serve the mission that Michael Scott could not. You can also rep our show with some merch! Head over to mspcstore.com and get your hands on some nifty gifties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now that the dust has settled, Mark Few and the Gonzaga Bulldogs are looking at one of the deepest, most talent-rich teams that has ever laced them up in Spokane, Washington. How this coaching staff divides minutes will be a key talking point all offseason, and came up quite a bit in today's episode when grading listener-submitted hot takes. Drew Timme's return sparked a lot of discussion about whether having him back helps or hurts Gonzaga's chances of winning a title next year, and many other topics were discussed including: Will Rasir Bolton start or come off the bench? Could Julian Strawther lead this team in scoring? What will Dominick Harris' role look like? How many Zags will be first round picks in 2023? Is Hunter Sallis in line to be Gonzaga's most improved player? And more! Danny Evans GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-coach-danny-evans-his-children Jeremy Eaton GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/r8yj3-jeremys-cancer-fund https://linktr.ee/LockedOnZags Locked on Zags - Part of the Locked on Podcast Network. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. PrizePicks Don't hesitate, check out PrizePicks.com and use promo code: “LOCKEDON” or go to your app store and download the app today. PrizePicks is daily fantasy made easy! NetSuite Over twenty-seven thousand businesses already use NetSuite and RIGHT NOW through the end of the year NetSuite is offering a one-of-a-kind financing program to those ready to upgrade at NetSuite.com/LOCKEDONNCAA.  C3fXiHupJDC9byuRc45r Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tig's guest is comedian and Emmy-nominated actor Lauren Lapkus, star of the Netflix movie The Wrong Missy, and known for her role as corrections officer Susan Fischer on Orange is the New Black. Lauren and Tig give suggestions to a listener wondering what to wear on a blind date, advise a woman whose long-time boyfriend never says “I love you” and help a mom upset because her six-year-old calls her by her first name instead of “mommy.” This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp (go to Betterhelp.com/TIG for 10% off the first month of online therapy), Indeed (go to Indeed.com/TIG for a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job posting, offer good for a limited time), Shopify (go to Shopify.com/TIG for a free 14-day trial and full access to Shopify's suite of features), Netsuite (go to Netsuite.com/TIG for a one-of-a-kind financing offer), Macys (go to Macys.com/purpose to celebrate Pride month), Truebill (go to Truebill.com/TIG and start canceling today), and Netflix's The Hall: Honoring the Greats of Stand Up | Accompanying Podcast. Need advice? Submit your question for Tig at dontasktig.org/contact.

The Gonzaga Bulldogs had a banner week last week, securing the return of Rasir Bolton, Julian Strawther, and Drew Timme while also adding transfer guard Malachi Smith. Mark Few is going to have extremely tough decisions to make with his rotation next season, and it could get even more challenging if 2022 international recruit Baba Miller picks Gonzaga over Florida State on Monday. Today is mailbag Monday, and discussing Gonzaga's roster concerns is just one of many topics covered, including: Ben Gregg's path to playing time? Can this roster handle physicality? Comparing this year's team to 20-21, and to Baylor What is this team's biggest weakness? Recapping Gonzaga's struggles in the NCAA regional Will anyone transfer out? And more! Danny Evans GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-coach-danny-evans-his-children Jeremy Eaton GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/r8yj3-jeremys-cancer-fund https://linktr.ee/LockedOnZags Locked on Zags - Part of the Locked on Podcast Network. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. PrizePicks Don't hesitate, check out PrizePicks.com and use promo code: “LOCKEDON” or go to your app store and download the app today. PrizePicks is daily fantasy made easy! NetSuite Over twenty-seven thousand businesses already use NetSuite and RIGHT NOW through the end of the year NetSuite is offering a one-of-a-kind financing program to those ready to upgrade at NetSuite.com/LOCKEDONNCAA.  C3fXiHupJDC9byuRc45r Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Afraid it's too late to pursue a career in music? Have a rude relative who is also cold toward your four-year-old kid? Songwriter, composer and Grammy-nominated singer Rufus Wainwright helps Tig weigh in on these problems as well as the debate over whether it's socially acceptable to pee in the shower. Plus, Rufus gets candid on what he thinks the biggest problem is with today's pop stars, balancing indulgence with better judgment, and the best advice he's ever heard in the lyrics of a song.  This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp (go to Betterhelp.com/TIG for 10% off the first month of online therapy), Shopify (go to Shopify.com/TIG for a free 14-day trial and full access to Shopify's suite of features),  Netsuite (go to Netsuite.com/TIG for a one-of-a-kind financing offer), Zocdoc (go to Zocdoc.com/TIG to download the Zocdoc app for FREE), Macys (go to Macys.com/purpose to celebrate Pride month), Truebill (go to Truebill.com/TIG and start canceling today), Wealthfront (go to Wealthfront.com/TIG to start building your wealth and get your first $5,000 managed for FREE, for life), and Netflix's The Hall: Honoring the Greats of Stand Up | Accompanying Podcast.  Need advice? Submit your question for Tig at dontasktig.org/contact.

June 1 is the deadline for Gonzaga Bulldogs stars Drew Timme, Julian Strawther, and Rasir Bolton to decide if they are staying in the 2022 NBA Draft or returning to Spokane. How will Mark Few respond to those decisions, and what could/should Gonzaga's roster look like next year? Today is mailbag Monday, and discussing Gonzaga's roster concerns is just one of many topics covered, including: Will Chet Holmgren go No. 1 to Orlando? What should the top three be in the NBA Draft? Is Malachi Smith still in play via the transfer portal? Will Spanish prospect Baba Miller come to Gonzaga? Analyzing Gonzaga's draw in the NCAA Tournament against Columbia The best and worst jerseys in school history And more! Danny Evans GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-coach-danny-evans-his-children Jeremy Eaton GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/r8yj3-jeremys-cancer-fund https://linktr.ee/LockedOnZags Locked on Zags - Part of the Locked on Podcast Network. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. PrizePicks Don't hesitate, check out PrizePicks.com and use promo code: “LOCKEDON” or go to your app store and download the app today. PrizePicks is daily fantasy made easy! NetSuite Over twenty-seven thousand businesses already use NetSuite and RIGHT NOW through the end of the year NetSuite is offering a one-of-a-kind financing program to those ready to upgrade at NetSuite.com/LOCKEDONNCAA.  C3fXiHupJDC9byuRc45r Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

S. Lindsey West, the CEO of Track 1099. She developed two successful Deep Web crawling companies that gathered valuable government data from the ITC, FDA, NIH, USPTO, and Clinical Trials. She had sold monthly subscriptions to law firms for five years. Lindsey also founded a company that offers a novel, online IRS e-file and e-delivery platform and served over 200,000 businesses filing 1099-MISC and W-2 and successfully partnered with Xero, Bill.com, Intacct, Quickbooks, and NetSuite. Leading highly technical teams to solve difficult challenges, aircraft systems engineering, forming partnerships and revenue, and risk management are part of her specialties. Track1099 is an online software and service provider specializing in managing, e-filing, and e-delivering IRS documents such as 1099s, W-2s, and W-9s. For a Free Information Security Plan Template Go To: https://tech4accountants.net/free-written-information-security-plan-for-accountants/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rush-tech-support/message

The Gonzaga Bulldogs will take on the LMU Lions in the second round of the WCC Tournament after LMU defeated BYU late Wednesday night. Gabriel Hughes takes the hill for the Zags, who have a great shot at hosting a regional after Oregon lost to Arizona to begin the Pac-12 Tournament. Today's episode previews the WCC Tournament, before diving into the program record nine Zags who were honored with WCC awards - including head coach Mark Machtolf, freshman Cade McGee, and shortstop Connor Coballes. Finally, we end the show with a fan story submission, talking all about a chance encounter with Mark Few for a lifelong Gonzaga fan living in New Jersey. Danny Evans GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-coach-danny-evans-his-children Jeremy Eaton GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/r8yj3-jeremys-cancer-fund https://linktr.ee/LockedOnZags Locked on Zags - Part of the Locked on Podcast Network. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. PrizePicks Don't hesitate, check out PrizePicks.com and use promo code: “LOCKEDON” or go to your app store and download the app today. PrizePicks is daily fantasy made easy! NetSuite Over twenty-seven thousand businesses already use NetSuite and RIGHT NOW through the end of the year NetSuite is offering a one-of-a-kind financing program to those ready to upgrade at NetSuite.com/LOCKEDONNCAA.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Derek interviews European Watch Company representative Joshua Ganjei about the explosion of interest in trading and investing in luxury watches. Joshua breaks down watch culture, what the market looks like, what brands/models are hot and which watches are the most sought after today. Then Derek and Johnny share their experiences with high end watches and how they're looking to get in on this opportunity.  Established in 1993, European Watch Company is one of the premier watch dealers in the world. This family business strives to treat you like family. European Watch Company offers seamless and trusted watch buying, selling and trading services globally. The 5- Star reputation, and the curated selection of the finest timepieces in the world is what sets this business apart. The in stock inventory listed on the website is always up to date, and is ready to be shipped globally to your door. Download the iOS app from the App Store to see a continuously updated inventory of the finest watches in the world. Listen to ILAB 231 on iTunes here or subscribe on your favorite podcast app.   Where we are: Johnny FD – Poland / IG @johnnyfdj Sam Marks – Barcelona / IG @imsammarks Derek Spartz – Los Angeles / IG @DerekRadio Sponsor: NetsuiteJoin the #1 Cloud Financial System now at NetSuite.com/ILAB and receive a special one-of-a-kind financing offer.  Support Invest Like a Boss: Join our Patreon   Discussed: European Watch Co (@europeanwatchco) European Watch Company European Watch Co: buy or sell on the App Store Johnny's new ‘luxury' watch mentioned in the episode Like these investments? Try them with these special ILAB links: ArtofFX – Start with just a $10,000 account (reduced from $25,000) Fundrise – Start with only $1,000 into their REIT funds (non-accredited investors OK) *Johnny and Sam use all of the above services personally. Time Stamp: 10:23 – How did you get involved in the business? 16:33 – Can you tell us more about your business? 18:33 – Is your business mainly local or international? 21:05 – How has the interest in the industry increased over time? 27:35 – What is the average type of collector? 31:10 – Do you have a suggestion for a “starter” watch for a collector? 35:51 – Are the collectors more interested in the older models or the newer models? 39:34 – Are watch companies doing collaborations? 42:16 – How do you ensure authenticity? 45:05 – Any recommendations for keeping the quality of the watch? 47:30 – Is there a way to buy one at a retail place? 49:05 – Patreon Question: How much for a Rolex day date? 51:07 – Patreon Question: How has smart watches affected traditional watches 53:00 – Patreon Question: What's the best way to appraise a watch? 54:10 – Patreon Question: How much higher can the Rolex Royal Oaks keep going? 55:42 – Patreon Question: What are your thoughts on a non-swiss brand? 57:33 – What are your favorite watches in your collection? 63:17 – Derek and Johnny review If you enjoyed this episode, do us a favor and share it! Also if you haven't already, please take a minute to leave us a 5-star review on iTunes and claim your bonus here!  Copyright 2022. All rights reserved. Read our disclaimer here.

All companies are feeling the effects of the unprecedented supply chain disruptions seen in the past decade—inventory shortages, extreme shipping costs, long shipping times, and personnel shortages, just to name a few.The financial barriers experienced by manufacturers between first mile and last mile delivery have created a new burden on many businesses. So, how do we solve these issues? How can businesses better prepare themselves for ongoing disruption, while still serving their customers?SourceDay and RF-SMART has brought together experts from Echelon Fitness and STH using NetSuite to discuss why businesses need to focus on optimizing and digitizing their supply chain, and where they expect to still see disruption in coming years.What You'll Learn:• A state of the union on the supply chain• How SourceDay and RF-SMART partner with NetSuite• Why Echelon Fitness and STH, Inc. chose to partner with RF-SMARTAdditional Resources: Connect with SourceDay: SourceDay WebsiteListen to the Podcast: Resiliency Through Supply Chain ShortagesWatch the Full Webinar: Overcoming Disruption with First Mile TechnologyWho You'll Hear: Sarah Archer, Senior Podcast & Digital Media Host @ RF-SMARTRuth Rosenstock, Partner Engagement Manager @ RF-SMARTColby Young, VP, NetSuite Business Unit @ SourceDayJD Slough, CFO, @ Shaffer, Troxell, & Howe, Inc.Greg Dahlstrom, VP of Supply Chain, @ Echelon Fitness

Actor Michael McKean, beloved for his roles as Chuck McGill in “Better Call Saul” and David St. Hubbins in the classic rock-umentary “This Is Spinal Tap”, tells Tig all about some surprising backstage memories he has of playing Lenny of the Lenny and Squiggy duo in the classic 1970's sitcom “Laverne & Shirley”. Michael also helps Tig advise a mom who is judgmental about her toddler's “dud” friends, and counsels a listener whose buddy can't stop yawning when they talk on the phone. This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp (go to Betterhelp.com/TIG for 10% off the first month of online therapy), Indeed (go to Indeed.com/TIG for a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job posting, offer good for a limited time), Shopify (go to Shopify.com/TIG for a free 14-day trial and full access to Shopify's suite of features), Netsuite (go to Netsuite.com/TIG for a one-of-a-kind financing offer), Zocdoc (go to Zocdoc.com/TIG to download the Zocdoc app for free), and Netflix's The Hall: Honoring the Greats of Stand Up | Accompanying Podcast. Need advice? Submit your question for Tig at dontasktig.org/contact.

The 2022 NBA draft combine took place last week, with four Gonzaga Bulldogs - Chet Holmgren, Drew Timme, Julian Strawther, and Andrew Nembhard - in participation. How did each Zag perform, and what does it all mean for their chances of returning to Mark Few's team in Spokane next season or pursuing the NBA draft? Today is mailbag Monday, and discussing Gonzaga's roster concerns is just one of many topics covered, including: Which non-Holmgren Zag will have the best NBA or International career? Is Tyrese Hunter still in play via the transfer portal? Is having a firm deadline to stay in the NBA draft a good idea? A look at the most under and overrated seasons in Gonzaga history Analyzing the two new additions to Gonzaga's women's program And more! Danny Evans GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-coach-danny-evans-his-children Jeremy Eaton GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/r8yj3-jeremys-cancer-fund https://linktr.ee/LockedOnZags Locked on Zags - Part of the Locked on Podcast Network. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. PrizePicks Don't hesitate, check out PrizePicks.com and use promo code: “LOCKEDON” or go to your app store and download the app today. PrizePicks is daily fantasy made easy! NetSuite Over twenty-seven thousand businesses already use NetSuite and RIGHT NOW through the end of the year NetSuite is offering a one-of-a-kind financing program to those ready to upgrade at NetSuite.com/LOCKEDONNCAA.  C3fXiHupJDC9byuRc45r Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Gonzaga Bulldogs team have been one of the best stories in college baseball this season, heading into a weekend series against San Diego in first place in the WCC and on track to host a regional for the first time in school history. Joining Locked on Zags today is Shotgun Spratling, who writes at D1Baseball.com and covers west coast college baseball. Shotgun and Andy talk about Gonzaga's emergence as a baseball powerhouse, the pitching of Gabriel Hughes, Tristan Vrieling, and William Kempner, and of course some words on the tragic passing of coach Danny Evans. The pair also preview the upcoming series against the Toreros and the new-look WCC Tournament, which features six teams instead of four, and Shotgun tells us which teams to watch for in Omaha and why he believes college baseball is behind basketball and football for national relevance. Danny Evans GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-coach-danny-evans-his-children Jeremy Eaton GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/r8yj3-jeremys-cancer-fund https://linktr.ee/LockedOnZags Locked on Zags - Part of the Locked on Podcast Network. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. PrizePicks Don't hesitate, check out PrizePicks.com and use promo code: “LOCKEDON” or go to your app store and download the app today. PrizePicks is daily fantasy made easy! NetSuite Over twenty-seven thousand businesses already use NetSuite and RIGHT NOW through the end of the year NetSuite is offering a one-of-a-kind financing program to those ready to upgrade at NetSuite.com/LOCKEDONNCAA.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What's holding you back from feeling worthy? Cathy shares a coaching call about dealing with insecurities and your resistance to abundance. Then you'll hear from Tricia Huffman, founder and CEO of Your Joyologist, manager of integrity to Grammy Award winning artists, mentor, and podcaster, who is back on the show to share the biggest lessons from her new book "F the Shoulds. Do the Wants." She'll teach you how to stop letting the shoulds dictate your life, get clarity on what you truly want, and allow in more joy today. - Join Cathy for her free 3 day event, May 31-June 2 @ 9 am PT/12 pm ET! Cathyheller.com/abundance - Join Abundant Ever After at the presale discount price! Cathyheller.com/join - Get your copy of Tricia's book, F the Shoulds. Do the Wants: Get Clear on Who You Are, What You Want, and Why You Want It http://ftheshouldsdothewants.com/ - Follow Tricia on Instagram @_triciahuffman and @yourjoyologist - More of Tricia at https://yourjoyologist.com/ - Thanks Canva Pro! Get a FREE 45-day extended trial by going to Canva.me/dreamjob - Thanks Netsuite! Get one-of-a-kind financing program at NetSuite.com/dreamjob

Chloé Zhao, who won the 2021 Best Director Oscar for “Nomadland,” talks to Tig about what that means for her personally and professionally. She and Tig discover a surprising secret weapon they share to stay sane and successful. They also advise a listener on whether to try writing a novel or a screenplay, and give some perspective to a mother bothered by snide comments that her kid obviously behaves like an only child. This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp (go to Betterhelp.com/TIG for 10% off the first month of online therapy), Shopify (go to Shopify.com/TIG for a free 14-day trial and full access to Shopify's suite of features), Netsuite (go to Netsuite.com/TIG for a one-of-a-kind financing offer), and Netflix's The Hall: Honoring the Greats of Stand Up | Accompanying Podcast.  Need advice? Submit your question for Tig at dontasktig.org/contact.

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The Gonzaga Bulldogs already added Efton Reid for next year's roster, but Mark Few and his staff could be looking to make even more additions, particularly to this team's young, inexperienced backcourt. Would Tyrese Hunter or Kevin McCullar push one or both of Nolan Hickman or Hunter Sallis to the bench? What about a return from Rasir Bolton? Should Zag fans be satisfied if Sallis and Hickman are both starters next season? Today is mailbag Monday, and discussing GU's backcourt is just one of many topics covered, including: Who would win, US born Zags or International born Zags? Giving out awards for the Zags in the NBA A proposed solution to the NIL situation Revisiting Gonzaga's potential move to the Mountain West Is this already the most successful Gonzaga baseball season of all-time? And more! Danny Evans GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-coach-danny-evans-his-children Jeremy Eaton GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/r8yj3-jeremys-cancer-fund https://linktr.ee/LockedOnZags Locked on Zags - Part of the Locked on Podcast Network. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. PrizePicks Don't hesitate, check out PrizePicks.com and use promo code: “LOCKEDON” or go to your app store and download the app today. PrizePicks is daily fantasy made easy! NetSuite Over twenty-seven thousand businesses already use NetSuite and RIGHT NOW through the end of the year NetSuite is offering a one-of-a-kind financing program to those ready to upgrade at NetSuite.com/LOCKEDONNCAA.  C3fXiHupJDC9byuRc45r Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, I have the opportunity to speak with Alex Hagerup who is solving the problem of using AI to take costs out of your business. Grant Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of ClickAI Radio. So today I have someone that I have been admiring by looking at his background, here with me today to talk about some amazing aspects of his journey to solve business problems leveraging technology, specifically AI which is quite cool. Anyway, let me stop right there. And welcome Alex Hager group. Hello, Alex. Alex Hey, Grant. Thanks for having me. It's a pleasure. Grant Thank you. Thanks for being here today and for taking the time. I know you're getting ready to head off trans continental here pretty soon on a trip. So thanks for for jumping on this conversation here today. Alex Absolutely. It's exciting being able to travel again. So I going home to the Motherland for a few weeks is exciting. I haven't been there for more than a few days, for the last three years, actually. So I'm definitely excited. Grant Have have have the COVID situations and those numbers pretty good over there at this point. Alex Yeah, everything is fine. So Norway is completely open again. And it's all good. But But Norway was one of those countries that really looked down hard. And also since the US didn't allow non US residents to actually come back into the country. If you left. It was just a problematic situation to go to Europe in general. Wow. Grant Yeah. What a great opportunity to get home to family. Well, thanks for taking your time here with me today on this. So Vic AI. All right, who is Vic AI? What happened here? How to what are you? What are you solving? What what problem? Are you looking to address with Vic? Ai? Alex Yeah, absolutely. So I'll take a little bit of the background to set that up. So I, I've always been very interested in both accounting, finance and technology. So this is a company that lives in the intersection of those. My mom had her own accounting firm. So I grew up there, which probably influenced my interest for for accounting in general. And I built a couple of companies. But one that I spent three years with just prior to starting, Aki was a cloud ERP system, an accounting and accounting platform that was being used by about 30 40,000 companies back then it's about 80 90,000. Now, and during working there, you know, observe the sort of, let's say, the challenges of accounting and the manual, repetitiveness, the tediousness, all of that from, you know, every day you felt it? Grant Where? I mean, what is the excitement in that? Right? I mean, where's the excitement? Yeah. Did you credit that properly?  Alex Oh, gosh, yeah, exactly. So so we were we were just observing this. And then this was back in 2014 15. Just before we started with AI started having a new, you know, like a new summer or a new renaissance in a way and, and we were thinking like this has to be we can maybe like we can solve this in a better way than how the technology has solved it so far. And after some deliberation, we sort of thought that we could create AI algorithms that would be able to actually do accounting transaction processing better than humans. Grant Because that's a really key point I think you're making. So the way that we've been solving this problem up to this point has been, let me take the tasks that we do and just automate the tasks themselves. Right. In other words, let me take your actual transactional activities that you're working through, and just put some increased processing to that. That's how it's historically been done, right? Alex Yep. Correct. And that's been entirely driven by rules, right? So, you know, transaction, Uber, transportation, as, you know, rules based automation, right? And there are all sorts of problems with that. It's obviously better than doing everything manually, right? So we aren't we're progressing through stages there. If you go back before the spreadsheets, you know, everything was done entirely manually. So we are progressing here, but, but what we're building is not next face that comes off there, you know, what everyone is using today, all over the world. And, you know, AI will solve this in a more scalable and gracious way and more more effectively. So that was all right. Yeah. Grant Yeah. So real quick on that, can you articulate how is that different? Right? Because all of us come from this rules based way of thinking. So what is it that AI is going to do better? How will it do it differently than what we're used to? Alex Yeah, I mean, that's a that's a great question. It's kind of the essence as well. So when you when you look at how it happens today, it's not only rules are not only automation, it's automation, and a lot of human hours involved. So you can always ask yourself, why are all those human hours involved? If it's automation, right? So so it begs the question, right, so what happens in reality is that sort of rules and templates and RPA isn't sufficient, because there's so many edge cases, and there's so much variability in the world of accounting. So you know, rules only takes you so far. And then you have to staff up and have human cognitive reasoning step in and do the rest of it. So where AI comes in is that it can do both of those things. So it does the automation without rules, and it can do the reasoning that humans are there to do today. So I always say that AI is, is great at sort of mimicking that reasoning that humans are doing. So one of the areas that we're in is invoice processing. And when I give an invoice to any human, you know, it will always tell me, oh, that's the vendor, you know, that's the invoice number, lots of total costs. But that's not obvious to a computer. And if you're gonna write rules for every variability in the world, you can just end up writing too many rules. So it's just not a, it's not a great technology for it. And AI is way better. So it's just like in the early stages, so that's next sort of digital transformation, transformation journey that we're all. So as Grant So as you know, when you're working in the AI space, and you're saying, Oh, I'm going to apply AI to a particular problem, you end up building different models with different AI characteristics based on the nature of the problem, some more aggression based some more sort of classification based, as your people as your customers look to use your platform, do they get exposed to any of that? Are they even aware of what elements or aspects of AI are at play? Or? Or do they just jump in and start solving the problems they're used to, and then the right sort of AI model behind the scene is executing on their behalf? Alex Yeah, we've hidden all of that from our customers. So we do try to keep sort of Explainable AI in the way where our user interface is explaining why our AI predicted something. But we've kept all of the complexity, so sort of models and model training. And all of that is in the background, we decided to do like an end to end service where the customer, they don't really need to do anything technical. It's, it's, you know, just another SAS subscription that they're using, that they plug into one of their processes. And then we deal with all of the complexity of the models, both global models and AI models, specifically the same for each customer. So we keep all of that complexity hidden. Grant That's awesome. That way, I'm not touching any of that as the end user. So if I see the name Vic AI, I don't need to shy away and say, Oh, wait, I need to be an AI expert. It's more that this is the enabling technology. And it just turns out that you've made that simple for the people without needing to know that Wait a minute. So that brings a question on my use, you know, one of the challenges around AI is the whole notion around bias. And, and, and with the cognizance that's required for humans up to this point, and still largely today to do you know, counting processes. Therefore, that has the opportunity for some bias that comes in right terms of the way things get handled. How do you deal with that then in terms of applying AI so that that bias doesn't creep through? Alex Yeah, it's a great question. And it's a challenge for everything where we're data sets are involved in training, AI. So one of the ways that so one of The one of the good things with accounting data, if you start with that is that it's ultimately numbers and classifications. And you, you kind of want to have that, right? Because otherwise your your books of your business is wrong. So unless you want them to be wrong, you know, you have a very good incentive to keep this right. SO into SO, you know, I think we generally see kind of less less bias in accounting data, and then some other more like subjective data in a way. And then also we draw on data across 1000s and 1000s of customers. So we have customers in both Europe and the US and many other many other regions as well, but the little fewer and most of the concentration in Europe and US. And in all sorts of industries and all sorts of sizes, we have about 13,000 customers on the platform now. So when you start looking at such a wide data set, you also hopefully reduce some of some of that bias. And then you also have auditing processes that sort of sits at the end of their accounting. And hopefully also they'll you know, annually they'll catch corrections, and also fed in as well to make AI. So those are some of the tactics. Basically, it's all about keeping clean data, so that our predictions are accurate. That's really what we're trying to get to. Grant Yeah, boy, that's that's so critical, especially as you pointed out with the with the need to of course, be accurate for the business for sure. All right, so So let's say that you've got this data, you've cleaned it up, you've done the preparation, you're on the Vic AI platform, the question now in my mind becomes, therefore, what changes in the lives of the people that adopt this right and others, they may change? I'm supposing something about the way they do their daily work, or the way the CFO does certain things, or maybe even impact on regulations and audits. I mean, what's the impact of the organization when when this gets adopted?  Alex Yeah, I'm also in question. And I want to point out also that the beginning of getting getting live with Vicki AI isn't complex for a customer, because we built an automated system to ingest and clean their historical data, which then goes into our system automatically and train our AI algorithms so that when we go live, we have, you know, pretty good knowledge of what's going to be predicted. We know your system, we know your accounting, we know how you do things. So when you start pushing new transactions through our classification, accuracy is high. And there's no complexity for the customer. In that process, it basically happens automatically in the background. Once you are live with Vic AI, some things will will change. But it doesn't sort of change. Like overnight. One of the things with AI is it gets better and better over time. And one of the things we're driving towards is what we call full autonomy. And full autonomy is you know, the AI's version of automation. But it means that it has perceived this not to need human review. And that's when it's fully autonomous. So that's our sort of end goal with the autonomy of transactions is that, you know, the AI system is perfectly confident in the work that it has been doing. So it doesn't even ask a human to review it. So this this increases over time. So when you start with Aki, you, you have a you know, you have a better interface, you have a smoother operation, you have already probably 50% time reduction in the first month of using the system. Grant Let me stop you on that right there. 50%. So, that would be 50% of those that are doing sort of the daily operational activities, or is that of the CFO? Or who who is that, that that percent impacted? Alex Yeah, that's on the accounting team that is doing the processing. So if you're doing you know, if you have five people or if you have 15 people doing invoice processing, whether they are onshore or offshore, you know, just in the beginning, you can drastically reduce that, and then that percentage just increases over time because you're substituting the AI for for for human FTE. So basically, and and what we see is that everyone wants to do something else than just sit and do like data entry and accounting classification, right? You you, you can be more proactive, you can do more value added work than that. And we're sort of at that phase now where the AI can substitute that's partly augments and also fully run things autonomously. So when you put this in place, in the beginning, there is a little bit of effect right away but you know, you got to read the sign some of your some of your processes and some of your routines because you have a platform here now that is doing Most of the work for you, and you're just reviewing and you're reviewing the AI and training the AI to become more autonomous. So you've got a little on my mind shifts, and some sort of routines, you don't need to double and triple check, check in have four people involved in reviewing, you know, one thing because the AI can tell you how confident it is. And if it is very confident, maybe you can have one person review it in the beginning, and then eventually it will be fully autonomous. If it's less confident, then it will also tell you, and you can review it in more detail. So it's pretty, it's pretty, pretty fascinating. Grant It is dang fascinating. And I'm assuming that there are some that have run into this, and they've worried about their jobs, right? They're like, wait a minute, you're taking my tasks away from me? Do you have to help them overcome that fear and say, hey, you know, you're gonna move towards more value added activities within the organization? Have you run into that problem? Alex So it will we see is that it's, everyone is just squeezed on time, right? Everyone's trying to hit the deadline of the month, the clothes and all of that. So it there is no shortage of work to be done in the accounting piece. And, and just having, you know, having faster turnaround time having more accurate data, because AI is more accurate than humans, like it doesn't fat fingers thinks the same way. And when it's uncertain, it asked for a human verification, a human looks at it, and then you get more accurate than then all the way. So we see that, you know, there's no shortage of things to do. Everyone wants to progress their careers. And I don't really perceive that as an actual problem. But it is like a, you know, people think about that as a problem, but I don't think it is in reality. Grant So this has been several years and coming. When did you start this 2 to 3 years ago? Alex Yeah, early 2017, was 5 years. Grant Okay, that's, that's awesome. And you built this ground up, meaning all of AI development AI technology that your organization's created, right? Alex Yeah, exactly. I mean, it's been challenging. That's why it's taken taken quite a few years, as well as because you we started, you know, completely scratch, and we had to figure everything out. So one of the things that sets the KPI apart a little bit as part of our founding story, where we were able to start the company, we had access to a gigantic data sets of accounting transactions, and all corresponding documents to that. So that helped us just spend the first two years we just spent on data analysis, data science and machine learning development, because we had some thesis and theories that this could work, but we didn't know. So it just had to do that in the beginning, for for a couple of years. So when we saw that this actually has promised, like, we were predicting more and more accurately, and you know, we're gonna get to this inflection point where it's better to use PKI, that do not use PKI. And at that point, people will use it, and then, you know, continue growing more and more customers and more and more data and more and more corrections, and better and better predictions. So we realized we would get to that point. And then, you know, then we raised the seed round back in 2017. And, you know, started developing, Grant What a great journey. I love this story. So tell me about impact outcomes. So you talked about a large number of customers that are using the platform now, what is what's been the results that they've seen? Alex Yeah, so we see. So there's a couple of numbers that we that we statistically enroll from the from the customers, we see that customers have about 80% reduction in the overall time spent on the process. And that comes from two things. One is the percent of fully autonomous. So let's say you're 50%, fully autonomous, that means you spent zero time on 50% of your volume. And then that other part, we've drastically reduced the number of minutes in two seconds. For each transaction a human has to review because the AI has done all the upfront work, humans just reviewing it, rather than sort of processing it from scratch. So you're at seconds rather than minutes. This turns into sort of an 80% reduction in in time. You also have things that we do like prevent duplicate payments, and we have some fraud detection in the system. So you also have some of those benefits that can turn into multimillion dollar when you have a large enough cost base. And then we have audit trails in the system, which helps with figuring out you know, making sure that you know, all of the approvals are doing rights. If anyone has changed in amount or something. It's all logged into the system electronically. So you have some some compliance and auditing benefits from it as well. But right now the main, the main effective impact our customers have, and we typically sell to the mid market and enterprise. So these are larger organizations, they can have hundreds of 1000s, or millions even have sort of vendor bills per, per year, and a substantial amount of people and resources involved in dealing with that problem. So they see very significant ROI from it. Grant So to sell into that particular group, then I'm assuming you've got to have a decent amount of integrations into all of their incumbent systems, right, all of their ERP systems and CRM systems, etc. Right? What does that look like? Alex Yeah, that's, that's true. So we build out these connectors as we as we go, it does, for each connector, the first time we build it, it does take a little bit of time. And then once we have that connect, for instance, you know, to NetSuite or intact or Oracle, the, you know, the next customers that we bring on board, we can leverage the same connector. So it is it is some work initially to build out all of the ones that we need. And then you can grow and scale on top of that for the customer. This is no complexity like we're taking not on completely. So the only thing we need is to know what type of system they have. And we develop that connector as part of the offering. Grant So let's talk about looking to the future in terms of when I'm doing FPA, a financial planning and analysis and I'm, I'm looking at my numbers, and I want to leverage a view into the future. How does something like this help an organization with that? Alex Yeah, that's a, that's a beautiful question. And a big passion of mine, actually. So what we're doing now sets us up to solve that specific problem. So if you think of where we are, now we're in accounting. And what you're talking about is more finance, which is what we'll dive into the idea and the vision that we are getting to is that we want to develop an AI that's basically is a real time cost optimization engine that serves predictions and monitors that in real time, we will be able to help you project kind of what your cost base should be, and how you could reduce spend in various categories and with various vendors. That's that's the piece that we're trying to solve as part of that equation of the of the future. So that you always have multiple pieces of the accounting equation, you have the cost side, you have the revenue side, you have adjustments and close process. And we're trying to stay within one of them for now. And make sure we sold provide real true value in that swim lane before we move on from from there. Grant Yes, I think that part's fascinating, as well, I've seen and interacted with organizations that are trying to leverage shift P and A even into capacity and resource planning, and trying to figure out what that looks like, and especially with it what's going on in the world today, right, with certainly high inflation and certainly supply chain challenges. The need for this kind of capability, I think is dire. Right. I think having the ability to provide something like this sooner rather than later is really crucial. Alex Yeah, definitely. And I think the technology has the ability to hold much more context and see data across all of the things that buck forms, like ours can do in in, in a compliant and anonymized ways, you can see data patterns, you know, across different companies. So you can inform yourself, no more than just sitting looking at your own data sitting inside your own office and their own silo. So that I will, you know, in the future greatly help with, you know, capacity planning, or, you know, cost reduction initiatives and so on. So I think that's one of the powers of sort of, like the cloud combined with with AI and big data, if it's leveraged in the in the right way. Grant And so if I go back just one moment on something, so if we take an AI model, and and we take it through a data set, and we were able to get sort of two key views at it, one is sort of more hindsight, right? One sort of looking backwards, right? It's the AI is looking at it saying here were the drivers that that contributed to the certain behavior, right? So it's more analytic Right. But then there's the other style of using it, which is looking forward, which is more predictive. And oh, okay, here's, here's where based on things we've seen, here's what the high predictive sort of correlations are opportunities are things that we expect moving in the future. When you when you look at Vic AI, and everything that you're providing, do you focus more on one side versus the other? Or you're combining both of those views together? Alex Hmm...yeah, we so in the, in the course of the work in the platform we have now, so every thing we do is a prediction on new data. So that means a new so if you sort of break it down into like, there's a new signal or a new transaction, or a new document coming in, that we've never seen before. And, and the platform then predicts what this is, Donald to vary like line item level detail, how to classify it, and so on. So it does predict this based on the algorithmic design, and the historical data that it seen both for this customer and globally. So it sort of is our engines are purely predictive in terms of what they're trying to predict what's going on. And you can extend that to two other parts, like we just discussed on the cost side as well. You can predict how how you should, you know, maybe they'll just classify this cost, but like, how, what your cost base should consist of a new look at categories. And you can sort of predict this based on your own current spend your growth in the company and maybe other comparable companies, so you can start predicting a journey based on the same technologies. Grant Awesome. So quick question for you, as COVID started to hit, obviously, a couple of years ago, and large companies have their AI models, you know, out there deployed, we're running, suddenly that disruption created an impact to the way in which business was typically being done, right. Not all industries were hit. But certainly a lot of industries are hit. And therefore, business operations changed. And the way in which people conducted business altered, which meant then, that those models were making assumptions based on former operational models, right former ways in which people executed, and therefore invalidated some of those predictive characteristics or capabilities of those models, which meant then, as you know that they had to go do some rework, right had to reduce retraining, right and update the data sets and so forth. So to what degree does Vic AI continually learn, right, so as you pointed out, you get a new document you've never seen before. At some point, I'm assuming it pulls it into its corpus, right? And it continues to learn or relearn on that. Can you talk to that? Alex Yeah. And it's a key feature of the platform, which, which is actually pretty enjoyable when you see it working in reality. So we, so for every transaction that goes through our platform, or every invoice or vendor Bill divest process through our platform, that leaves that leaves us with some learnings. So, you know, it's either it's corrected, and we made a prediction and a human chose to change it. Right? That is something that is fed back into our data set, and also our learning database of sort of, why would that ever happen? What did we get wrong in this prediction? And so for every prediction that we do, we learn something because if we predict something, and it's correct, we also learned something. So you know, we have millions of transactions just flowing through the system every month. And for each of them, we learn something so the system then improves basically, for each transaction that goes through the system. The level of, you know, transaction processing we're at isn't really affected by kind of like global changes, like you mentioned, for for COVID. Like, the only thing that could happen is you suddenly have some some new transaction because you need to do something differently, or you may have fewer transaction, which then just you know, is additive to our system. So you know, we will get something maybe we'll have lower confidence on this because this is something new. So you know, you will have a human come in there and tell the system what to do with this. And then that will be additive to the to the data sets and, and all the algorithmic design, if that makes sense. Grant It makes total sense. Absolutely. Yeah. And I loved how you tied the two together which is, well, I'm still gonna have the transaction. Although the world the macro world around me is changing the transaction occurs while may change is the rate of them. or how, or maybe even maybe even the units or the number of units, etc, right things like that will certainly or could change because of disruption. Being able to predict or understand how the organization can respond to, to disruption, I think becomes more and more critical, as we seem to continue to have more disruptions in business. Right? That happens a lot. Alex Yeah, absolutely. And I mean, what happened with with COVID specifically was also a lot of disruption in how people worked. And, you know, they were used to working from home and, you know, we have some, some of our customers, they have millions of invoices a year, which means, like, 1000s of invoices a day and, you know, suddenly you have, your whole workforce is like, not as productive as they were when something like this happens. But you know, you still need or your your system to be updated, you still need to pay your vendors on time. And otherwise, you know, you'll incur fees, and it'll so just like having an AI system in there that doesn't sort of care about those things. It has the same throughput and outputs 24/7 all year around, makes you very resilient for for sort of things like that are like workforce changes. Grant So that's the right word resilient, you want that organizational resilience, and as the point I wanted to drive out, which is, even though there's these disruptions that take place, most of which are outside of our control, getting our companies into a position to handle and respond properly or well, to that, or to pivot is what organizational resilience is about. And my experience has been AI is one of those tools to help us do that. Yeah, that's, that's awesome. Okay, I want to ask you a very forward looking question. Right? You're ready? Yeah, sure. All right. So I'm not going to ask what are you going to do Norway? Or what I'm asking is tell me about blockchain? What does that mean to you in your world and things that you're doing? Alex Yeah, I mean, that's, we've been thinking about that. And, to be, to be honest, we haven't really seen yet the connection between specifically what we do and how to leverage a blockchain effectively, I like the technology of a blockchain is really awesome. And it can unlock a lot of things. But it doesn't mean that you need to use it for everything. One thing that I think could be an interesting exploration is when you start looking at accounting, ERP data, and whether the accounting systems could run and have their data in a blockchain that is verifiable, to prevent all sorts of, you know, fiddling with the data. That could be an interesting application for for blockchain in in our area. And there's clearly things around, you know, like money movement and value movements that blockchain can solve pretty pretty well. So just in the layer where we are, we haven't really found a great application that applies to us with the blockchain. Yes, but I think that technology is super fascinating. And I think that there are many areas where it is a superior technology to sort of like the trust based system that we have now. And it's an epic thing, when you can run that successfully in a resilient way. Grant When you think and that that makes a lot of sense. It's, it's got some, as you pointed out some interesting potential benefits to the industry. But I suppose at some point, it doesn't really matter where the transaction sits for you, right, in terms of the problem that you're solving, right? In other words, whether it's sitting on a blockchain or it's somewhere else and an Oracle ERP or whatever, right to it, at some point, that probably doesn't matter. Right? Alex Yeah, for us, the Store of the the sort of the store of the data ultimately is for us in the ERP system. And we are not an ERP system, we just layer on top of the ERP systems. So that is the ultimate sort of storage of the data. And that's where if, if, if at all the like blockchain technology could be leveraged to, to kind of store data in in a safe and transparent way. But there's also some new or some transparency issues with accounting data as well, that's going to be kept in mind. Grant Yeah, I would imagine that one of the greatest use cases to for what it is you provide is in the area of fraud to fraud detection, right the ability to regardless of where the data sitting, and regardless if it's on a blockchain or in an ERP system, you Your ai i would imagine would help to discover or uncover some of those potential opportunities. Is that accurate? Alex Yeah. And you have this this platform benefit as well is what if one customer sort of reports. So what happens a lot is just invoice fraud, right? You have, you have invoices that are not from the vendor that they appear to be from. And you have different variations of trying to change payment details, and you know, all of that. So when you see when you see data across 1000s of customers, you, you have a way of detecting those things, and at least flagging them for like, Hey, someone should have an extra look at this, because something may be up, if we're all good with it, that's fine. But you know, have an extra Look at this. And for people, you know, when we, as people, when we're doing something for six hours straight, you know, the last few hours, we're just like, you know, we're just clicking enter and trying to get, you know, the day over with, and, and things can easily pass by that shouldn't pass by. So this is this is problematic in two ways. Number one, your accounting data could end up being wrong, like you just have things that are misclassified. And then you can have things that are, you know, paid, or you're paid twice, or you pay the wrong thing, or you pay an extra zero, you have all of these things that are just humans are it's easy for humans to do those mistakes. And you just want to sort of get rid though those with a technology that can help you remove all of those errors. And we know how, you know, a billion dollar cost base? Just you know, half a percent is, you know, quite a lot. Grant A big number. Yeah, it is. Yeah, you'd hate to get false positives on a fraud situation, right, where you might be accusing someone that, that they've conducted fraud, when in fact it was was just a mistake. This is fascinating technology. So, Alex, where do people go to? I mean, where can you point them to, to learn more about you and your organization? Alex Yeah, I mean, the website is, is the safest place to go right now. So just go to Vic.ai. And we have, we have a good bit of marketing collateral and informative collateral blog posts, we try to educate the customers and the finance team. So finance teams are interestingly, you know, they're, they're not buying new things that often because you know, your ERP system, you have it for a very long time, which which you definitely should. So you know, you're not like a high. There's no high velocity necessarily on procuring things for the finance team. And, and we try to do a lot of educational material as well, because AI is new, but it has true effects or the finance team, and they'll find them blog, blog posts and collateral and can happily reach out to us and we'll help guide anyone through the process. Grant Oh, okay. That's, that's awesome. Alex, you've been so generous with your time here today, especially as you're getting ready to jet off into the sunrise just real quick. Any last comments that you want to share? Alex Um, I think this has been this has been a cool chats. It's been it's been really good. I love talking about, of course, AI and our company, but also the technologies in general. So I think this has been been super cool. And I think that it, you know, it's just wanted to say that we've we've spent a long time building the platform, so glad it's not complex for the customers right now, all of the AI performance, which is actually mind blowing, but you have no level of complexity. So, you know, if you if you want to get started with with AI for a function, this is a very specific function within invoice processing, where you can deploy AI, get the effects out of it with no complexities, and we'll deal with all of that for you. Grant That's actually the beauty of this, you know, to be able to get that down to a few points. Now splint clicks on a SaaS solution. They have all that taken care of, I've written my share of AI code, and oh, my goodness, the fact that you've handled that so seamlessly for the business people is huge. Nice job. Really great job on that. Yeah. Thanks. Great. Alex Thank you. Grant Thanks for taking the time today. Again, Alex. My gosh, this is awesome, everyone. Thanks for listening to another episode of ClickAI Radio. And until next time, go check out Vic.ai. Thank you for joining Grant on ClickAI Radio. Don't forget to subscribe and leave feedback. And remember to download your free ebook, visit clickairadio.com Now.  

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NIL has dominated the conversation around college athletics over the past year, including at Gonzaga University. Student-athletes are now getting paid for their name, image, and likeness, and a new initiative called Friends of Spike now exists to help these student-athletes earn compensation, now that the NCAA has (finally) allowed them to do so. Joining Locked on Zags today is the executive leadership team at Friends of Spike, former Gonzaga hoopers Matt Santangelo and Shaniqua Nilles. Matt and Shaniqua discuss how they got involved with Friends of Spike and how the reception has been for the program so far. The pair also discuss how they would have reacted to NIL opportunities when they were in school, how it helps these student-athletes in the short term and long term, the concern about fair compensation for student-athletes in women's programs, and of course share how you, dear listener, can get involved if you so choose. Danny Evans GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-coach-danny-evans-his-children Jeremy Eaton GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/r8yj3-jeremys-cancer-fund https://linktr.ee/LockedOnZags Locked on Zags - Part of the Locked on Podcast Network. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. PrizePicks Don't hesitate, check out PrizePicks.com and use promo code: “LOCKEDON” or go to your app store and download the app today. PrizePicks is daily fantasy made easy! NetSuite Over twenty-seven thousand businesses already use NetSuite and RIGHT NOW through the end of the year NetSuite is offering a one-of-a-kind financing program to those ready to upgrade at NetSuite.com/LOCKEDONNCAA.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Suffering from hand sanitizer dry hands? Need inspiration to finally confess those romantic feelings you've kept hidden from a long-distance flame? Who better to ask than master of the Star Trek universe — filmmaker Alex Kurtzman. He joins Tig and together they have some expert tips on how to be an effective manager. Alex also talks about how he knew Tig would be a perfect Starship captain, divulges the secret to being a brilliant director and reveals who one of his personal heroes is. This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp (go to Betterhelp.com/TIG for 10% off the first month of online therapy), Indeed (go to Indeed.com/TIG for a $75 sponsored job credit), Shopify (go to Shopify.com/TIG for a free 14-day trial and full access to Shopify's suite of features), Netsuite (go to Netsuite.com/TIG for a one-of-a-kind financing offer), and Wealthfront (go to Wealthfront.com/TIG to get your first $5,000 managed for FREE, for life). Need advice? Submit your question for Tig at dontasktig.org/contact.

The Gonzaga Bulldogs aren't done updating their roster for the 22-23 season, even after adding LSU big man Efton Reid. Iowa State's Tyrese Hunter and Texas Tech's Kevin McCullar are both priority targets for Mark Few and his staff, and the team could do even more depending on the future of Rasir Bolton, Drew Timme, and Julian Strawther. Joining Locked on Zags today is Connor Hope, Connor is a Zag grad and CBB analyst for HeatCheckCBB. Connor and I discuss Reid's fit with the Zags, whether he would play well alongside Drew Timme, and his defensive chops in the first segment. Then we dig in to 2023 recruit Dusty Stromer and who his game reminds us of - and why he fits well in Spokane. The pair also discusses both Hunter and McCullar, how they would fit at Gonzaga, and Connor offers who he thinks is the better (and more likely) candidate to end up in the blue and white next year. Finally, the show ends with some discussion about the latest Bracket Busters proposal, how it would impact the Zags, and which types of opponents Gonzaga will hopefully run into if this proposal comes to fruition. Danny Evans GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-coach-danny-evans-his-children Jeremy Eaton GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/r8yj3-jeremys-cancer-fund https://linktr.ee/LockedOnZags Locked on Zags - Part of the Locked on Podcast Network. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. PrizePicks Don't hesitate, check out PrizePicks.com and use promo code: “LOCKEDON” or go to your app store and download the app today. PrizePicks is daily fantasy made easy! NetSuite Over twenty-seven thousand businesses already use NetSuite and RIGHT NOW through the end of the year NetSuite is offering a one-of-a-kind financing program to those ready to upgrade at NetSuite.com/LOCKEDONNCAA.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Gonzaga Bulldogs aren't done retooling the roster, even after adding Dusty Stromer to the class of 2023 and Efton Reid via the transfer portal. Mark Few brought Iowa State guard Tyrese Hunter onto campus this weekend, and the team is connected to Texas Tech transfer Kevin McCullar as well. Today is mailbag Monday, and discussing the potential additions of McCullar or Hunter is just part of what is covered in this episode, including: The likelihood of Drew Timme returning to Gonzaga Who is a better fit, Hunter or McCullar? Who is the ideal opponent for GU in a Bracket Buster style game? Which Zag has the best NBA potential? Which Zag I would want to call a basketball game with And more! Danny Evans GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-coach-danny-evans-his-children Jeremy Eaton GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/r8yj3-jeremys-cancer-fund https://linktr.ee/LockedOnZags Locked on Zags - Part of the Locked on Podcast Network. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. PrizePicks Don't hesitate, check out PrizePicks.com and use promo code: “LOCKEDON” or go to your app store and download the app today. PrizePicks is daily fantasy made easy! NetSuite Over twenty-seven thousand businesses already use NetSuite and RIGHT NOW through the end of the year NetSuite is offering a one-of-a-kind financing program to those ready to upgrade at NetSuite.com/LOCKEDONNCAA.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One thing is the most consistent about ERP systems is that you will always find surprises. And that is even true for systems that may be well-liked or rated. Also, it doesn't matter how versatile a solution could be. Their design would make them a natural fit only for certain industries. If you make assumptions about any ERP systems, it's likely to fire back. You might think that systems as well adopted as NetSuite may not have limitations and might work for most industries. Well, that is not true. While it's great for certain industries, it struggles in other patches. So what are the core strengths of NetSuite?In today's episode, we invited a panel of industry experts for a live discussion on LinkedIn to discuss major stories in the ERP and digital transformation space and an objective and independent review of NetSuite's capabilities. We covered several grounds, including their strength in finance and global multi-entity capabilities. Finally, we reviewed their distribution and manufacturing capabilities and where they are not as strong, especially with their deeper manufacturing capabilities such as their bill of materials, costing, and scheduling.For more information on growth strategies for SMBs using ERP and digital transformation, visit our community at wbs.rocks or elevatiq.com. To ensure that you never miss an episode of the WBS podcast, subscribe on your favorite podcasting platform.

Tig talks with one of America's favorite leading men, Paul Rudd, star of the Ant-Man movies, the TV series The Shrink Next Door, and so much more. Paul discusses fascinating facts about real ants, and talks about owning a candy store in a small town. Paul and Tig discuss why he was named sexiest man alive and how he stacks up against CNN correspondent Sanjay Gupta for the title. Together, Tig and Paul advise a listener on how to find friends in a new city, help another decide whether to fly across the country for a birthday bash, and they find a new name for a librarian whose boss wants her to change her name at work. This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp (go to Betterhelp.com/TIG for 10% off the first month of online therapy), Shopify (go to Shopify.com/TIG for a free 14-day trial and full access to Shopify's suite of features), and Netsuite (go to Netsuite.com/TIG for a one-of-a-kind financing offer). Need advice? Submit your question for Tig at dontasktig.org/contact.

The Gonzaga Bulldogs landed a big fish in LSU big man Efton Reid via the transfer portal. Can Mark Few and the player development staff turn Reid into an NBA prospect, like they've done in the past with Domantas Sabonis, Kelly Olynyk, Brandon Clarke, and Rui Hachimura? Joining Locked on Zags today is Locked on LSU host Caroline Fenton. Caroline and I discuss Reid's overall game and whether he met expectations at LSU in the first segment. Second segment is a look at his skills defensively and how he would adjust to a faster, more spaced out offensive style at Gonzaga, and the third segment is a look at his NBA potential, his experience in the SEC, and an overall look at the NCAA transfer portal and NIL and what impact it is having on the game we all love! Danny Evans GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-coach-danny-evans-his-children Jeremy Eaton GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/r8yj3-jeremys-cancer-fund https://linktr.ee/LockedOnZags Locked on Zags - Part of the Locked on Podcast Network. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. PrizePicks Don't hesitate, check out PrizePicks.com and use promo code: “LOCKEDON” or go to your app store and download the app today. PrizePicks is daily fantasy made easy! NetSuite Over twenty-seven thousand businesses already use NetSuite and RIGHT NOW through the end of the year NetSuite is offering a one-of-a-kind financing program to those ready to upgrade at NetSuite.com/LOCKEDONNCAA.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tig catches up with comedian and veteran improv performer Ben Schwartz, who talks about his process for voicing the superpowered hedgehog in the “Sonic the Hedgehog” movies, what it was like growing up as the son of a social worker and teacher, and the kinds of letters he still writes on his prized collection of vintage typewriters. Ben and Tig advise a listener concerned that his neighbor is overfeeding his cat, and a Finnish immigrant worried that he doesn't know how to "socialize like an American." This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp (go to Betterhelp.com/TIG for 10% off the first month of online therapy), Indeed (go to Indeed.com/TIG for a $75 sponsored job credit), Shopify (go to Shopify.com/TIG for a free 14-day trial and full access to Shopify's suite of features), and Netsuite (go to Netsuite.com/TIG for a one-of-a-kind financing offer). Need advice? Submit your question for Tig at dontasktig.org/contact.

Indie pop rock sensation and Grammy nominee Phoebe Bridgers talks about life as the child of a standup comedian, the origins of her ghoul-inspired style and the worst advice she recently gave a friend. Then Phoebe and Tig help a listener who feels guilty about a past romantic affair and counsel a father who doesn't like to punish his young daughter who can't seem to stop misbehaving. This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp (go to Betterhelp.com/TIG for 10% off the first month of online therapy),  Netsuite (go to Netsuite.com/TIG for a one-of-a-kind financing offer), Zocdoc (go to Zocdoc.com/TIG to download the app for free), and Wealthfront (go to Wealthfront.com/TIG to get $5,000 managed for free when opening an investment account).  Need advice? Submit your question for Tig at dontasktig.org/contact.

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