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What happens when you get access to uncommon conversations with people who achieved the highest levels of success? Join David Spisak as he brings you inside the room where success stories are told by the people who lived them so that you can achieve your definition of success at an accelerated pace. 

  1. Matt Ober: Data, AI, and What's Actually Coming Next

    2D AGO

    Matt Ober: Data, AI, and What's Actually Coming Next

    Matt Ober helped manage $30 billion. He saw the AI wave coming years before anyone else. Now he's talking about what actually happened behind the scenes. Matt is the Managing Partner at Social Leverage, a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on fintech and vertical AI. Before that, he served as Chief Data Scientists at Third Point, one of the world's most elite hedge funds, and was part of the founding team at WorldQuant Ventures, where he spent six years traveling the globe acquiring data that helped grow a $500 million fund into a $30 billion operation across 25 countries. In this episode Matt Shares what the world's smartest investors figured out about data that most businesses are only now waking up to. The decision separating winners from everyone else over the next five years. Why EQ is overtaking IQ in the age of AI. And the one thing most companies are doing right now they'll deeply regret. Connect with David Spisak to Achieve Exponential Growth: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidspisak/Website: https://www.davidspisak.comEmail: david@disruptivegrowthsolutions.comPhone: +1 (510) 604-0308Visit https://linktr.ee/davidspisak for all our linksLike this show? Please leave us a rating and review where you're listening right now! 🎧 Subscribe on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-david-spisak-show/id1602552929🔊 Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6oPjFeHfnxNXPTHXxNwIsm?si=4fc3f546d07a4679

    57 min
  2. From $400 to $50 million company: the Danny Chaves story

    MAY 7

    From $400 to $50 million company: the Danny Chaves story

    Danny Chaves didn't go to college. He didn't have a business plan. He didn't have investors, a mentor, or a safety net. What he had was $400, a couch in his mother's house, and a stubbornness that would quietly build one of the most remarkable service companies in the automotive industry. Today, Danny's Detailed Services processes 125,000 cars a month, employs over 800 people, and generates more than $50 million a year — numbers that would be impressive for any business. This is not an episode about detailing cars. This is an episode about what a human being can build when they refuse to believe their starting point is their destiny. When they decide that money is not the finish line, it's the fuel. When they realize that the business is the microphone, and the message is what lasts. Connect with David Spisak to Achieve Exponential Growth: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidspisak/Website: https://www.davidspisak.comEmail: david@disruptivegrowthsolutions.comPhone: +1 (510) 604-0308Visit https://linktr.ee/davidspisak for all our linksLike this show? Please leave us a rating and review where you're listening right now! 🎧 Subscribe on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-david-spisak-show/id1602552929🔊 Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6oPjFeHfnxNXPTHXxNwIsm?si=4fc3f546d07a4679

    46 min
  3. The Trade-In Con Costing Dealers Thousands Per Deal with Frederick Grimm

    APR 30

    The Trade-In Con Costing Dealers Thousands Per Deal with Frederick Grimm

    Frederick Grimm is the co-founder and COO of FIXD — the company behind America's most widely used vehicle diagnostic device with over 4 million units sold. After scanning millions of cars, his team discovered dealerships had a problem they didn't even know existed. He built Appraisal Pro to solve it. Now used by over 1,100 franchise dealerships, it tells any dealer in under 2 minutes the exact mechanical condition and true reconditioning cost of any trade-in. Tune in to find out more! Connect with David Spisak to Achieve Exponential Growth: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidspisak/Website: https://www.davidspisak.comEmail: david@disruptivegrowthsolutions.comPhone: +1 (510) 604-0308Visit https://linktr.ee/davidspisak for all our linksLike this show? Please leave us a rating and review where you're listening right now! 🎧 Subscribe on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-david-spisak-show/id1602552929🔊 Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6oPjFeHfnxNXPTHXxNwIsm?si=4fc3f546d07a4679

    42 min
  4. The $1M Trade-In Blind Spot with Keith Benkel

    APR 23

    The $1M Trade-In Blind Spot with Keith Benkel

    What does it actually take to run used cars across 35 stores — profitably, consistently, every single month? Most people in this industry will never find out. Keith Benkel has been doing it for over two decades. From buying a broken 1967 Mustang GT for $400 as a teenager, and getting it running the next day, to becoming the National Used Vehicle Director of one of the largest automotive groups in the country, Greenway Automotive Group. Keith's path is the kind of story the industry desperately needs more people to hear. Not because it's inspirational in the greeting-card sense. Because it's 'instructive' in every way that matters. In this conversation, Keith pulls back the curtain on what separating a great used car operation from a mediocre one actually looks like at scale.  Connect with David Spisak to Achieve Exponential Growth: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidspisak/Website: https://www.davidspisak.comEmail: david@disruptivegrowthsolutions.comPhone: +1 (510) 604-0308Visit https://linktr.ee/davidspisak for all our linksLike this show? Please leave us a rating and review where you're listening right now! 🎧 Subscribe on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-david-spisak-show/id1602552929🔊 Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6oPjFeHfnxNXPTHXxNwIsm?si=4fc3f546d07a4679

    51 min

  5. APR 21

    The FTC Just Changed the Game for Dealers!

    The FTC just made things very clear. Federal law now overrides state law. The total price has to be the most prominent price. Add-ons have to be genuinely optional. Rebates have to be real and available to everyone they're shown to. And whoever controls the ad owns the ad. Not your agency. Not your OEM. You. But here's what I really want you to understand. The FTC is not even your biggest risk right now. We are entering a world of AI driven search where everything gets indexed. Every complaint. Every review. Every violation. Every questionable ad your dealership has ever been connected to. And when a consumer asks AI if your dealership is trustworthy, it pulls from that data. Not your website. Not the keywords you paid for. The data. And you can't remove it. Whether you're a dealer who's always done it right and wants to stay protected, or you're somewhere in the gray zone wondering how much longer you can operate there, this episode is the conversation you didn't know you needed to have today. The cost of being wrong is no longer temporary. Connect with David Spisak to Achieve Exponential Growth: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidspisak/Website: https://www.davidspisak.comEmail: david@disruptivegrowthsolutions.comPhone: +1 (510) 604-0308Visit https://linktr.ee/spisakd for all our linksLike this show? Please leave us a rating and review where you're listening right now! 🎧 Subscribe on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-david-spisak-show/id1602552929🔊 Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6oPjFeHfnxNXPTHXxNwIsm?si=4fc3f546d07a4679

    15 min
  6. Love People More Than You Love Cars with Paul Daly & Kyle Mountsier

    APR 16

    Love People More Than You Love Cars with Paul Daly & Kyle Mountsier

    Paul J. Daly and Kyle Mountsier built one of the most unlikely communities in American business — inside an industry most people fall into by accident. In 2020, Paul fired up a LinkedIn Live from his basement with one goal: make people in automotive feel less alone. Thousands showed up. What followed became ASOTU, More Than Cars, and a growing movement convinced that how you treat the person in front of you matters more than the transaction. This conversation covers what Will Guidara's number one restaurant in the world teaches us about human connection, why most managers would lose a third of their team if they asked 12 simple questions, and what it looks like when an entire industry decides to stop hoarding its secrets. Paul and Kyle are the co-founders of ASOTU and hosts of the daily automotive morning show. This is their story. Connect with David Spisak to Achieve Exponential Growth: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidspisak/Website: https://www.davidspisak.comEmail: david@disruptivegrowthsolutions.comPhone: +1 (510) 604-0308Visit https://linktr.ee/spisakd for all our linksLike this show? Please leave us a rating and review where you're listening right now! 🎧 Subscribe on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-david-spisak-show/id1602552929🔊 Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6oPjFeHfnxNXPTHXxNwIsm?si=4fc3f546d07a4679

    49 min
  7. How CarEdge Is Making Car Buying Simpler for Everyone with Ray and Zach Shefska

    APR 9

    How CarEdge Is Making Car Buying Simpler for Everyone with Ray and Zach Shefska

    Buying a car has always felt more complicated than it needs to be. Ray and Zach Shefska built CarEdge to fix that. In this episode, Ray who spent 43 years on the inside of the automotive industry — and his son Zach sit down with David Spisak to share exactly how CarEdge is simplifying the car buying experience for everyday people across the country. What they've built, why they built it, and where it's heading next is something every car buyer needs to hear. But the conversation goes deeper than that. This is a story about a father and son who found their purpose through loss, through patience, and through an unshakeable belief that the process of buying a car should work for everyone, not just those who know the system. What started on a couch in a small apartment is now helping millions of people walk into the car buying process with clarity and confidence. Connect with David Spisak to Achieve Exponential Growth: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidspisak/Website: https://www.davidspisak.comEmail: david@disruptivegrowthsolutions.comPhone: +1 (510) 604-0308Visit https://linktr.ee/spisakd for all our linksLike this show? Please leave us a rating and review where you're listening right now! 🎧 Subscribe on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-david-spisak-show/id1602552929🔊 Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6oPjFeHfnxNXPTHXxNwIsm?si=4fc3f546d07a4679

    1h 5m

  8. APR 2

    Why Dealers Are Paying for Their Own Data?

    Let's be brutally honest. You didn't get into this business to log into 12 different systems before 9am. You didn't invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in technology just to feel more confused, more frustrated, and more blind than you were before. And you sure didn't build your dealership from the ground up just to rent access to data that is already yours. But that is exactly what is happening right now in 2026. And if you think it's just a technology problem, you're missing the real story. I've been in this business for a long time. I've watched dealers get told they were going extinct more times than I can count. And every single time dealers adapted, evolved, and found a way forward. But what's happening right now is different. Because this time the threat isn't coming from Carvana. It's not coming from Amazon. It's not coming from some Silicon Valley disruptor who never set foot in a showroom. It's coming from inside the industry. And most dealers don't even see it happening. In this episode I'm pulling back the curtain on something I call the Hidden Data War, who's behind it, why it's been allowed to go on this long, and what it's actually costing your dealership every single day in lost productivity, blocked innovation, and a customer experience that should be far better than it is. The dealers who understand this are already making moves. The ones who don't are falling further behind every single day. Connect with David Spisak to Achieve Exponential Growth: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidspisak/Website: https://www.davidspisak.comEmail: david@disruptivegrowthsolutions.comPhone: +1 (510) 604-0308Visit https://linktr.ee/spisakd for all our linksLike this show? Please leave us a rating and review where you're listening right now! 🎧 Subscribe on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-david-spisak-show/id1602552929🔊 Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6oPjFeHfnxNXPTHXxNwIsm?si=4fc3f546d07a4679

    18 min
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What happens when you get access to uncommon conversations with people who achieved the highest levels of success? Join David Spisak as he brings you inside the room where success stories are told by the people who lived them so that you can achieve your definition of success at an accelerated pace. 

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  • Creator
    David Spisak
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    266
  • Rating
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