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Rob Luna

Rob Luna

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1383 total appearances

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class

When I started Valtrion, like my introduction, he sold his business for millions of dollars, which I did, but you know, our focus really there was just on managing money.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class

I had a CPA for 20 years that I was kind of complacent with and I figured all those things were going on.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class

And then when I sold my business, it's nothing like doing it for yourself.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class

I was like,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class

shit if i would have structured this like this or had this trust i literally lost millions and millions of dollars so kind of the cool thing about what i'm doing now sean is the business i'm building today or we built a voucher on i am the target customer so selfishly i'm building this for myself not from an ivory tower and when i started looking at taxes let's just talk about taxes in particular because

The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class

I think that's the biggest, biggest pain point.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class

And when you talk to people about their tax situation or CPAs, I'm sure all your listeners are thinking about this.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class

Everyone's disenchanted.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class

The CPAs are taking on three, 400 clients.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class

Everything's reactive.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class

There's nothing proactive and people are just losing millions and millions of dollars because of that.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class

So when I started this firm, I'm not a CPA, but I'm pretty smart with numbers and my team is pretty smart with numbers.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class

And we said, look,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class

We're pretty good at this stuff.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class

We understand business and real estate and strategy more than any CPA does.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class

And CPA is not to underestimate them, but there's a code of what you can and can't do.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class

And what we said is, hey, we're gonna reverse engineer that code.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class

And to your point, when we find somebody, we're gonna start at the beginning of the year tax planning.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class

And we're going to do every single thing that we can legally to make sure that we minimize taxes.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#267 Rob Luna - 50-Year Mortgages, Government Band-Aids, AI Job Cuts and the Middle Class

Because coming from California to here in the federal government, where that money was being pissed away, we didn't want to do that.