In this week’s episode, host Yuri Kapilovich sits down with Ryan Lazanis, founder of Future Firm and a CPA himself. Together they discuss Ryan’s journey from CPA, to owner, to innovator – from this beginnings in a corporate office and the negative experiences that pushed him to entrepreneurship – to his struggles and successes as with pricing, creating packages, client work and much more!

Episode Highlights:
0:00 - Introduction
0:35 - Episode beginning
1:14 - Intro to Ryan Lazanis
3:44 - Ryan’s public accounting experience
5:24 - What made Ryan want to leave
7:22 - Tax differences, US and Canada
8:43 - How Future Firm helps soloprenuers
10:21 - Starting Zen Accounting, problems Ryan ran into
14:14 - Getting pricing right, different packages
15:40 - Limiting client work and managing expectations
18:54 - Advice for your first hire
22:04 - Examining Yuri’s firm
25:04 - Starting a venture firm
26:24 - What Ryan learned and the marketing side
30:37 - Ryan’s partnership w/ Ignition
33:45 - Quantifying your “ideal end-state”
36:23 - Episode wrap-up

ABOUT HOST YURI KAPILOVICH

Yuri, aka #thefuncpa, has been in the accounting profession for over 15 years and has seen, first hand, the challenges the profession brings. After seeing that no firm was fitting the bill, Yuri set out to do things his own way with his firm K&A and the journey began with LinkedIn posting at the front end.

Yuri is proud to bring you #thefuncpa podcast highlighting the fun and all the amazing opportunities our profession can bring us all.


CONNECT WITH YURI KAPILOVICH
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ykapilovich/
Website: https://www.thefuncpa.co/

CONNECT WITH RYAN LAZANIS

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlazanis/
Website: https://futurefirm.co/about/