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Featuring: Zachary Roper, Democratic | Candidate for Governor of Wisconsin

Episode 62: Income Diversification for Long-Term Financial Success with Zachary Roper

Published November 7, 2024 | Video Starts at 42:23

Yeah, we, I own the domain and it's actually what my email address is appended to. But the website is not finished being built yet. I'm finishing up the branding and then we're doing the web design. And Once the branding is finalized, we'll be live in about seven, seven days. Okay. So. Well, Zach, I mean, I've really enjoyed having you on. I've learned a couple things about you that I didn't know, probably because I didn't know you before today, obviously. (42:23–42:28)

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“You lose 40 to 50% of your income to taxes when you work for someone else.”
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“I can make $150,000 in a business, and by the time I've utilized all the tax strategies that I can use to save money from running it through…”
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“This is what the most recent precedent says in regards to the Augusta Rule. Which is one of the rules where you can literally just take…”
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“If you can save 500 bucks out of your paycheck, that probably puts you in the top 5% of American savers in the country, maybe more.”
Episode 62: Income Diversification for Long-Term Financial Success with Zachary Roper | Uploaded November 7, 2024 | 31:51-31:58
“I went to school at Indiana, majored in business.”
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“Kelly [School of Business] is a great program, continues to be, you know, an accelerating program. I think this most recent year they were…”
Episode 62: Income Diversification for Long-Term Financial Success with Zachary Roper | Uploaded November 7, 2024 | 02:41-02:50
“I got a CPA and went to work for KPMG.”
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“Probably 85% of my clients at KPMG [were private equity clients].”
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“I went to Houlihan Lokey, the investment bank.”
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“I got my first paycheck less than two weeks after I officially started my company.”
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“Worked four years with KPMG, grinding through the senior ranks.”
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“Worked on 250, 300, 400, $500 million billion dollars plus businesses.”
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“Picked up a client that does $40 million in revenue.”
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“When I pick up a client that does $30 million in business and they want to grow.”
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“Most small business owners at $30 million, they spend something on marketing.”
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“I don't work quite in what I would consider the middle market of private equity.”
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“Private equity fund that'll come in, they'll raise money and they'll say we are going to roll up X, Y or Z industry.”
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“There are some huge funds, billions and billions and billions of dollars in these funds.”
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“They bring in 100 million in equity funding, they finance the deals with debt funding as best as they can.”
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“Middle market private equity, they'll write the 100 or $200 million check to buy from these private [equity firms].”
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“Taking them public, it's like a whole different ball game in private equity.”
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“Residential roofing is extremely hard to be profitable at on a small scale.”
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“They circumvented the entire supply chain of getting the residential roofs.”
Episode 62: Income Diversification for Long-Term Financial Success with Zachary Roper | Uploaded November 7, 2024 | 18:27-18:36
“They went straight to the insurance companies and they said, we want to negotiate a fixed rate to repair your roofs.”
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“They got like 10 of these houses a week.”
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“At 30 grand a pop, that's some serious revenue that's starting to come in now.”
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“They grew to a point where the insurance company like doing business with them so much.”
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“If you own a business and you are paying more than, like, let's call it a 20% effective tax rate, by the time everything is said and done…”
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“The company is strategic navigators. This is what they do. They do wealthy small business tax.”
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“The biggest thing that I see with small businesses that fail that had, you know, gotten to the 10 million or 15 million dollar mark and then…”
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“They started spending money to make money. They didn't track their cash flow quick enough or they had a couple bad months and they assumed…”
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“I own a real estate company that does not make a lot of money, but it puts money in my pocket every single month like clockwork.”
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“We don't have debt on [the duplex] because me and a partner were able to scrounge up the cash to pay cash for it.”
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“I maxed out every single retirement plan I possibly could have, every single employer match my own personal Roth IRA until I phased out of…”
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“I know this year that I'm unlikely to make as much money in November or December as I have in the first 10 months of the year.”
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“I am currently in a position where I'm financially blessed enough that I'm not worried about making my mortgage payments next month.”
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“We could leverage to grow.”
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“We kind of have a rough three year plan for where we'd like that [real estate] portfolio to be.”
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“I'm developing a website that I'm hoping will be going live by the end of November.”
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“I own the domain and it's actually what my email address is appended to.”
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“The website is not finished being built yet.”
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