David sits down with Napo Rumteen, the guy who scaled Tekion from zero to $100M+ ARR and built Interactive EQ, a platform that puts candidates and employees inside immersive, high-pressure simulations instead of asking them to describe themselves on paper.

He's advised on over 315 dealership transactions worth more than $22 billion. He's watched Park Place, one of the largest deals in industry history, fall apart at the height of COVID and come back together within weeks. And right now, he's telling us this could be the most active M&A year the auto industry has ever seen.

I've interviewed hundreds of people in this industry. This is the first time I've ever done a two-part episode. After sitting down with Matt Leone, CEO of DriveCentric, I didn't have a choice. There was too much here, too much story, too much substance, too much that this industry needs to hear, and I refused to cut a single thing.

In Part 1 of this 5-part episode series, David Spisak opens with the foundation: five questions designed to expose the truth about your business before the market does it for you.

I've interviewed hundreds of people in this industry. This is the first time I've ever done a two-part episode. After sitting down with Matt Leone, CEO of DriveCentric, I didn't have a choice. There was too much here, too much story, too much substance, too much that this industry needs to hear, and I refused to cut a single thing.

In this episode, David takes you inside Carvana's CDJR store in Sacramento for an unscripted, unfiltered walkthrough that challenged assumptions he didn't even know he was carrying. What he found wasn't a gimmick. It wasn't smoke and mirrors. It was something far more unsettling for the industry: a different set of questions producing radically different outcomes.

We talk about why 30–40% of car buyers are already finding dealerships through AI search — and why your SEO budget is becoming irrelevant. Why your empty service drive at 2am is actually a revenue opportunity sitting right on your lot. And why the dealers who figure out the mobility dollar shift now are going to look like geniuses in five years.

Jim Fitzpatrick sits down with David Spisak, CEO of Disruptive Growth Solutions, and they don't soften it. Sixteen categories of violations. Salespeople's Instagram posts counted as advertising. Third-party listings you don't control triggering fines you can't afford. Vendors with zero legal exposure leaving dealers to absorb every hit alone.

This episode is the keynote David delivered at ASOTUCON, and it's the most personal thing he's ever said on a stage.

Paul Faletti has led NCM Associates for 17 years — the company that invented the automotive 20 Group. He came into NCM in 2009 with an outsider's eye and an operator's instincts. And instead of riding a 78-year winning formula into slow decline, he started dismantling what was working before anyone told him he had to.

In this episode Matt Ober Shares what the world's smartest investors figured out about data that most businesses are only now waking up to. The decision separating winners from everyone else over the next five years. Why EQ is overtaking IQ in the age of AI. And the one thing most companies are doing right now they'll deeply regret.

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 service companies in the automotive industry.

Every day, dealerships across the country are writing checks they don't know they owe, buying trade-ins with hidden mechanical problems, guessing at reconditioning costs, and unknowingly rewarding the customers who know exactly how to game the system. One group scanned over 2,000 vehicles last month and discovered the average reconditioning cost was double what they'd been accounting for. Double.

In this conversation, Keith pulls back the curtain on what separating a great used car operation from a mediocre one actually looks like at scale. 

Whether you're a dealer who's always done it right and wants to stay protected, or you're somewhere in the gray zone wondering how much longer you can operate there, this episode is the conversation you didn't know you needed to have today.

This conversation covers what Will Guidara's number one restaurant in the world teaches us about human connection, why most managers would lose a third of their team if they asked 12 simple questions, and what it looks like when an entire industry decides to stop hoarding its secrets.

In this episode, Ray, who has spent 43 years on the inside of the automotive industry, and his son Zach sit down with David Spisak to share exactly how CarEdge is simplifying the car buying experience for everyday people across the country. What they've built, why they built it, and where it's heading next is something every car buyer needs to hear.

In this episode I'm pulling back the curtain on something I call the Hidden Data War, who's behind it, why it's been allowed to go on this long, and what it's actually costing your dealership every single day in lost productivity, blocked innovation, and a customer experience that should be far better than it is.

This week I sat down with someone who not only found it... he built the solution from the inside out. Matt Lasher, is the President of Streamline.auto and let me tell you, this conversation hit different.

This week, I sat down with Quin Garcia, Founder and Managing Director at AutoTech Ventures out of Silicon Valley, one of the sharpest minds in automotive and mobility investment, and I'm telling you right now, this conversation will change how you see the road ahead.