The David Spisak Show
What happens when you get access to uncommon conversations with people who achieved the highest levels of success? Join David Spisak as he brings you inside the room where success stories are told by the people who lived them so that you can achieve your definition of success at an accelerated pace.
Episodes
266 episodes
Matt Ober: Data, AI, and What's Actually Coming Next
Matt Ober helped manage $30 billion. He saw the AI wave coming years before anyone else. Now he's talking about what actually happened behind the scenes.Matt is the Managing Partner at Social Leverage, a seed-stage venture capital firm f...
From $400 to $50 million company: the Danny Chaves story
Danny Chaves didn't go to college. He didn't have a business plan. He didn't have investors, a mentor, or a safety net. What he had was $400, a couch in his mother's house, and a stubbornness that would quietly build one of the most remarkable ...
The Trade-In Con Costing Dealers Thousands Per Deal with Frederick Grimm
Frederick Grimm is the co-founder and COO of FIXD — the company behind America's most widely used vehicle diagnostic device with over 4 million units sold. After scanning millions of cars, his team discovered dealerships had a problem they didn...
The $1M Trade-In Blind Spot with Keith Benkel
What does it actually take to run used cars across 35 stores — profitably, consistently, every single month?Most people in this industry will never find out. Keith Benkel has been doing it for over two decades.From buying a...
The FTC Just Changed the Game for Dealers!
The FTC just made things very clear. Federal law now overrides state law. The total price has to be the most prominent price. Add-ons have to be genuinely optional. Rebates have to be real and available to everyone they're shown to. And whoever...
Love People More Than You Love Cars with Paul Daly & Kyle Mountsier
Paul J. Daly and Kyle Mountsier built one of the most unlikely communities in American business — inside an industry most people fall into by accident.In 2020, Paul fired up a LinkedIn Live from his basement with one goal: make people in...
How CarEdge Is Making Car Buying Simpler for Everyone with Ray and Zach Shefska
Buying a car has always felt more complicated than it needs to be. Ray and Zach Shefska built CarEdge to fix that.In this episode, Ray who spent 43 years on the inside of the automotive industry — and his son Zach sit down with David Spi...
Why Dealers Are Paying for Their Own Data?
Let's be brutally honest.You didn't get into this business to log into 12 different systems before 9am. You didn't invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in technology just to feel more confused, more frustrated, and more blind than you...
The Hidden Math Problem Killing Dealership Profitability Right Now with Matt Lasher
What if the single biggest leak in your dealership's profitability has nothing to do with your ad spend, your inventory, or your closing rate?What if it's hiding inside a problem so familiar, you stopped seeing it?This week I sat ...
The Startup Odds Are 9,000 to 7. What That Says About the Future of Automotive with Quin Garcia
What if the biggest threat to your dealership isn't a competitor down the street? What if it's a startup you've never heard of, funded by capital you don't yet understand, solving a problem you didn't know you had?This week, I sat down w...
How Dealers Are Accidentally Wasting Millions Because of Bad Data with Todd Smith
What if the biggest competitive advantage in your dealership isn’t more leads… but finally owning your data?In this episode I sat down with Todd Smith, retail automotive lifer, tech founder, surfer, and the CEO of QoreAI and what started...
Why AI Is Useless Without This One Thing — And Most Dealers Don't Have It | Danny Zaslavsky(NADA26)
Most dealerships are trying to solve the future with more tools.More software.More dashboards.More “AI”.But what if the real problem isn’t a lack of tools?What if the real problem is that none of the systems actu...
How Dealers Are Losing Six Figures in Fixed Ops with Mark Queen (NADA26)
Are you unknowingly leaking six figures a year through your service lane?In this episode, I sat down with Mark Queen, Founder and CEO of Skaivision, for one of the most practical, eye-opening conversations we’ve had about dealership acqu...
The 2026 Dealer Reality Check with Inga Maurer (NADA26)
Most people come to NADA looking for the thing that’s going to “save” their year.A new tool.A new strategy.A new shortcut.But here’s what hit me after sitting down with Inga Maurer, McKinsey Senior Partner at the Encore ...
How Tekion Is Redefining AI in Car Dealerships with Jay Vijayan (NADA26)
What if the biggest risk in your dealership isn’t AI… it’s using the wrong AI?Live from the Tekion booth at NADA 2026, in what might be the busiest corner of Las Vegas that week, I sat down with Jay Vijayan for a conversation that goes w...
How Smart Dealers Are Beating the Used Car Shortage (Without the Auction) with Dom Pope
What happens when a guy from Manchester flies across the pond, challenges how dealerships think about inventory, and casually drops 40% conversion rates into the conversation?You sit him down in the studio, and press record.This e...
How Cars.com Is Using AI to Transform the Way People Buy Cars with Matt McDonald
Buying a car should feel exciting… so why does it still feel like pulling teeth?In this episode of The David Spisak Show, I sit down with Matt McDonald, Director of Product at Cars Commerce, for a conversation that hits right at the hear...
When Experience Becomes Perspective: Jack Hollis on What Matters Most
What happens when a professional athlete’s dream ends… and a legendary automotive career begins?In this episode of The David Spisak Show, I sit down with Jack Hollis for a conversation I’ve wanted to have for a long time, one that goes f...
What CarMax and Carvana Know About Used Car Acquisition That Dealers Don’t with Brian Kramer
What if the most overlooked department in your dealership is actually the most powerful growth engine you have?That’s not a hypothetical. That’s the reality—and in this episode, Brian Kramer and I go straight at it.If you’ve ever ...
Digital Retailing Isn’t New — Most People Just Don’t Understand It with Rusty West
Some conversations age well. Others quietly explain the future before most people realize they’re already living in it.This one does both.In this episode of The David Spisak Show, I sit down with Rusty West, a builder, systems thi...
The Used Car Exit Strategy Dealers Ignore—And Why It’s Costing Them Millions (With Dealer Club Founder Joe Neiman)
What if the most overlooked lever in your dealership… is actually the one that determines your profitability?We talk a lot about acquisition in this business. But what happens after the car hits your lot, and more ...
How Hudson Automotive scaled from 6 dealerships to 65 without losing its soul with Adam Cherin
What if the car business isn’t really about cars at all?In this episode of The David Spisak Show, I sit down with Adam Cherin, Variable Operations Director at Hudson Automotive Group, for a conversation that goes way deep...
The Part of the Car Business Nobody Talks About (But Should) with Kevin Tynan
What if the most misunderstood part of the car business is the one keeping the whole thing alive?In this episode of The David Spisak Show, I sit down with Kevin Tynan, Director of Research at The Presidio Group
What’s Really Coming to Automotive Retail: Robert Burnett Breaks Down the Next Era
What if the secret to surviving the next era of automotive disruption isn't about technology at all, but about people, perspective, and the power of a well-earned scar or two?In this episode, I sit down with someone I’ve admired f...
How Dealers Can Turn This Overlooked Service Into a Multi Million Dollar Revenue Stream with Todd Cooperider
What if the most profitable opportunity in your entire dealership isn’t something new… but something you’ve been driving past every single day?In this episode, David Spisak sits down with Todd Cooperider, the founder of Esoteric D...