The Valley Current®: Will Founders and other Entrepreneurs (particularly serial entrepreneurs) in and outside Silicon Valley Ever Become Savvy to Tax and Financial Planning for their Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS)? - Part 2
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Release Date: 09/09/2021
The Valley Current®: Is A.I. Accelerating Entrepreneurship?
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The increasing availability of artificial intelligent companions is a significant turning point in the development of services. AI’s ability to quickly draft documents or instantly find and summarize research reports will be a major help for companies since they can increase productivity while cutting down on employees. The concern over job displacement remains a significant concern overall as the need for knowledge workers who perform simpler, more repetitive tasks declines. Can we expect these employees to change gears and jumpstart a new career in small business entrepreneurship? Host...
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The Valley Current®: What Creates the Entrepreneurial Mindset?
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See a problem, solve a problem. This is a phrase many of us grew up hearing and can largely be considered the core of the entrepreneurial mindset. What sets an entrepreneur apart from your standard repair person is the intellectual curiosity to restructure and rebuild an entire process instead of patchwork. Bangladesh, conveniently settled between India and China, has a fast-growing economy thanks to a strong developer & freelance community, but is missing key pieces of a solid financial infrastructure. Today host Jack Russo meets Rubel Ahsan who is breaking Bangladesh away from foreign...
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The Valley Current®: Why is it worth studying emerging trillionaires?
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Some of the biggest wealth transfers the world has ever seen are happening right now and a select few are going to profit the most from it. Elon Musk is on track to become the world’s first trillionaire by 2028, and there are more people right behind him poised to achieve this monumental monetary achievement in the next 10-15 years. What do we do when the scale of wealth creation today exceeds that of the robber barons who controlled the railroads? We study them, of course! Today host Jack Russo and Pat Duke discuss what we can learn by studying the movements of future trillionaires and how...
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The Valley Current®: Why is Critical Thinking Important?
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For a brief moment in time, astronomers were able to safely study the sun’s corona simply because it was in the perfect spot at the perfect time. As awesome as it was for us to watch, no major news organization mentioned how unbelievable it was that this happened in an ever-expanding universe. There are many things reported to us that we tend to take at face value. For instance, the media will report how many Palestinians died in Gaza, but not question the accuracy of those numbers which were provided to us from a terrorist organization. Many fundamentalistic religions promote blind faith...
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The Valley Current®: How Can We Put An End to Bullying?
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When we talk about the bullying problem in America, we tend to focus on the children who are tormented in school or online because bullies eventually grow up and act like adults, right? Unfortunately, some bullies never learn to act like decent human beings, and they carry their crude behaviors into adulthood where it can be modeled as successful tactics to children. Between younger generations taking offense to the smallest microaggression and older generations tendencies to make brazen, hurtful comments, it’s clear that bullying is taking its toll on civilization, and it is showing up in...
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The Valley Current®: What Does Healthy Aging to 100 Really Require?
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As much as we wish, we cannot interfere with or slow down the process of aging. What we can do is learn how to prevent and cure diseases that increase our longevity. There’s a whole industry of startup companies dedicated to pursuing a lifespan and a health span that goes to age 100 and possibly a whole lot longer. Could we really be just one major health-related scientific breakthrough from hitting age 100 with ease? Should we adjust our diet and exercise plan to make this feasible? Maybe making it to old age is just plain luck. Whatever it is, host Jack Russo and Dr. Leonard Hayflick...
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The Valley Current®: Class Action Lawsuits Do Sometimes Work
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How many times have you looked at your email, found an invitation to join a class action lawsuit, and wondered if it’s even worth it? While there’s usually little to no downside to joining these lawsuits, it may take years for the case to settle with a laughably minimal payout due to the large number of claimants. However, sometimes the real payoff comes in the form of programmatic relief the way it did for CPA Steve Rabin when he took on PricewaterhouseCoopers for age discrimination. Today host Jack Russo finds out how Steve Rabin opened the door for other older financial workers facing...
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The Valley Current®: NAR lawsuit – What does it mean for the real estate industry?
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For years Joe Cucchiara has been stating that big changes were coming to real estate. It’s been a long time coming, but the industry is finally being forced to change and adapt to new technology. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) took a major blow today after being found guilty of artificially inflating commissions. In addition to paying $418M over the next few years, the NAR must also implement a number of systemic changes that will benefit consumers. Is this lawsuit enough to force the real estate industry to adapt to technology and begin streamlining the homebuying process to...
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The Valley Current®: Is Veery Offices the Future of Offices?
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Let’s face it, businesses love to show off. When you’re representing a brand, you want to show off that brand with office spaces that are clean and comfortable with all the amenities a workspace requires. Before covid ("BC") even startup companies sunk big money and effort into making their workplace attractive. Now post-COVID ("PC") hybrid workstations and shared open workstations have become standard. In fact, companies have downscaled their physical spaces since there is no need to have a giant building that sits empty most days. So what does a startup or even any size company...
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The Valley Current®: Is Alexi Enabling A.I. First Legal Research?
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Years ago, the height of legal technology was having a keynote system that would allow you to search through printed case summaries using indexes. Thankfully the internet has made research faster and more efficient compared to scanning through yards of paper, but AI could make research even faster. When Mark Doble went to law school, he figured out he was far more interested in legal tech than practicing law. Thankfully Mark didn’t let his education go to waste when he formed Alexi – an AI based platform that understands and relays complex laws in a way that will aid lawyers through the...
info_outlineWe all dream about starting up or investing in the next unicorn company. It sounds like a nearly impossible longshot that will probably never happen to us, but it happens more often than you think living in Silicon Valley. It’s arguable that on the off chance we do grow a company worth $100+ million, founders and stockholders often don’t know what to do when tax season arrives. Jack Russo and CPA Steve Rabin dissect the underlooked areas of QSBS (Qualified Small Business Stock) 1202 & 1045 that provide big benefits for small business stocks.
- DST – Delaware Statutory Trust
- Backdoor Roth IRA’s
- Cryptocurrency and tax evasion
How Affluent Tech Workers Mimic the Tax Tricks of the Mega-Rich