The Power of Simplifying Complex Work

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with Joe Tolzmann, founder and CEO of RocketPlan, the app transforming property restoration management. Joe shares how he built RocketPlan from a small startup into a global solution by streamlining documentation, reducing labor, and improving cash flow for contractors. We talk about how his simple, user-friendly platform helps businesses get paid faster while reducing stress for property owners after disasters. Joe explains how RocketPlan’s efficiency boosts earnings, attracts private equity interest, and raises company valuations almost overnight. His journey from cleaning up job sites himself to leading a recession-proof tech company proves how powerful the right solution can be.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Entrepreneurs the Playbook.
0:03.0	I'm back at it in Web Summit, but now in Vancouver,
0:07.0	I've been in so many different cities around the world
0:09.0	with Web Summit, collision, rise, and it keeps going on and on.
0:14.0	But something that is consistent in my life
0:18.0	is the incredible business partner I have, a man and entrepreneur that I look up to,
0:24.3	because to me he's the epitome of what an entrepreneur could be, from the backstages of Dairy
0:30.2	Queen into a multi-million dollar venture, solving a need when other people passed it by
0:36.0	again and again, the incredible Joe Tozman, founder, CEO of Rocket Plan,
0:42.1	welcome to the Playbook.
0:44.3	Welcome to Vancouver, David.
0:45.8	Finally, after all this time, we meet up in Vancouver.
0:49.0	I think there's a portal because I don't think I'm in Vancouver.
0:53.5	It felt as if I'm in San Diego. It
0:56.3	is absolutely perfect weather here and perfect people in a perfect place. But speaking of perfect,
1:03.6	rocket plan is coming to perfection. The growth and also the capability has grown tremendously since I started working with you.
1:13.6	And as an advisor, I just wanted to say I'm so proud of you.
1:16.6	It is the first mobile operating system for those property restoration professionals,
1:22.6	which is an antiquated, conflictual business.
1:26.6	And now you have increased the cash flow.
1:29.8	You maximize efficiency, you boost Ibida, so the ROIs are incredible.
1:36.0	Give us a little bit of a snapshot of where you are today with Rocket Plan.
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