Bizora Brews

What does it actually take to convince an industry built on trust and referrals to adopt something new, and why do three founders attacking completely different parts of the accounting workflow keep arriving at the same lessons about how this profession actually buys?This episode brings together Dan Berenholtz, cofounder and CEO of Stanford Tax, Jordan Vickery, cofounder of Vinyl, and Andrew Rea, cofounder and CEO of Taxwire, for a wide ranging conversation on building software for accountants.

What happens when a region skips straight from having no tax system at all to running some of the most advanced real time reporting in the world? Eoin Fitzgerald has spent his career answering that question from the inside, and this episode digs into why the GCC's compliance future looks nothing like anywhere else.Eoin currently leads tax at Keeyns in the UAE, building out a function from the ground up in a market where tax as a concept did not exist eight years ago.

What happens when two venture capitalists trade a fund for a product roadmap, and a bootstrapped founder becomes one of the accounting industry's most trusted vendors without ever raising outside money?This episode of Bizora Brews' Accounting Founder Series brings together three builders reshaping the accounting tech stack from three different angles.

What happens to a tax career built on international structuring when a five word email from a national partner make you question whether the work still needs you?Muhammad Yammout is a Senior Manager in International Tax at EY, where he has spent his career since starting in Diversified Staff Group and moving into International Tax Services.

What happens to trust when AI can do the work but the client still needs to believe in the person doing it?This episode is a founder series conversation with Thomas Shelley, co founder of Magnetic, and Anderson Petergeorge, co founder of Quanto.

What does it take to defend a tax credit once the IRS decides to take a closer look?Andrew Brewster is a Senior Director at Alvarez and Marsal Tax in Washington DC, where he leads work across research and development tax credits and IRS examination defense.

What happens when three founders, each betting on a completely different piece of the accounting stack, end up needing each other to win?That's the setup for this episode of Bizora Brews.

What happens when your first product actually gains traction, and you have to decide whether to bet everything on it?David Wyle is the founder of SurePrep, where he built one of the most widely used platforms in tax automation.