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JOIN UP DOTS - GET RICH & LIVE FREE (Business Coaching With A Touch Of Life Coaching Too)

Building A Business In The Cloud

JOIN UP DOTS - GET RICH & LIVE FREE (Business Coaching With A Touch Of Life Coaching Too)

David Ralph of Join Up Dots

Education, Business

5.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Stephen King is our guest today joining us on the Steve Jobs inspired Join Up Dots podcast. He is a top executive at a Fortune 500 company. Bootstrapped CEO. Venture- backed tech startup founder. Non-profit fundraiser. It's safe to say Stephen King is not your traditional CPA. Stephen is President and CEO of GrowthForce, one of the nation's largest providers of outsourced bookkeeping and controller services. Regarded as an industry thought leader by AICPA and CPA.com, his ability to visualise the future of accounting has lead GrowthForce to become one of the fastest-growing companies in America. How The Dots Joined Up For Stephen His experience at the forefront of technology development and accounting system design spans nearly three decades. In 1995 he founded Virtual Growth, the nation's first cloud-based accounting service, and quickly grew it into a market leader. After being acquired by Insperity, Stephen was brought on as president of Insperity's Financial Management Services division, serving two years before leaving to build GrowthForce. He also spent seven years working at Amnesty International USA—first overseeing 300% growth as CFO, then raising over $20M a year as Director of Development. Stephen's time at Amnesty reinforced his life-long commitment to giving back to the community. As a result, non-profits represent 35% of GrowthForce clients. So where does his true passion lie, in the quick moving startup world, or working for major corporations often with less than movable parts? And are we now at the start of the next industrial revolution, whereby we will see more and more people start their own businesses? Well let's find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Stephen King Show Highlights During the show we discussed such deep subjects with Stephen King such as: Stephen shares how people are changing their systems everywhere to simplify their businesses due to the pandemic. Stephen talks openly how he started the first cloud account and the steps he took to make things happen from scratch. Why our next generation of children are under such a strain to achieve the same level of success as their parents. And lastly........... We hear the story of Stevens family origins and how his Father changed his life with just $47 and a boat ticket.

Transcript

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0:00.0

When we're young we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be

0:05.0

but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling.

0:09.0

Join UpDots features amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams.

0:15.0

This is your blueprint for greatness.

0:18.0

So here's your host, live from the back of his garden in the UK, David Rall.

0:22.6

Yes, hello there, good morning to you.

0:26.7

Good morning everybody and thank you, as always

0:29.4

for tuning in to join up dots and sharing us your ears.

0:32.9

We've got a great guest on the show today

0:34.9

and normally I do a little bit of a preamble

0:37.1

but I'm gonna get straight into it

0:38.7

because he's got so many things

0:40.2

and so many different directions that we can go into.

0:43.0

He's a top executive at a Fortune 500 company,

0:46.0

he's a bootstrapped CEO,

0:47.5

he's a venture-backed tech startup founder,

0:50.0

and also a non-profit fundraiser.

0:52.8

Now it's safe to say the guest is not your traditional CPA.

0:56.8

He's a president and CEO of Growth Force, one of the nation's largest providers

1:01.4

of outsourced bookkeeping and controlled services.

1:05.2

Regarded as an industry thought leader by AICPA and CPA.com,

1:10.2

his ability to visualize the future of accounting has led growth to become one of the fastest growing companies in America.

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