Treehouse Talks

Conversations with Visionaries, Founders, and Entrepreneurs on Building, Scaling, and Exiting.

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Blockbuster didn’t disappear because people stopped watching movies. People still watch a TON of movies. The way we get them just completely changed.

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I thought Jed framed this really well because the answer is not “move fast on everything.”

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Jed compares smaller credit unions to speedboats. You can get the right people in a room, make a decision and actually move. You do not need three pre-meetings, an executive committee and another meeting to talk about the first meeting.

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He started talking about retailers, stablecoins and what happens if a consumer can send their paycheck directly into someone else’s ecosystem, hold value there and spend it wherever they want.

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One of the things I kept thinking about after talking with Jed was how strange it is that we’ve all just kind of accepted these stories about people losing access to millions of dollars in Bitcoin.

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This was probably one of the more surprising parts of my conversation with Jed. St. Cloud Financial plans to begin lending against Bitcoin in the first quarter of next year.

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Jed said something in this conversation that I wish more people believed before they saw the numbers: culture is not the soft stuff.

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A few years ago, St. Cloud Financial was tracking about $1 million leaving for digital assets. Then it was $5 million. Last year, it was around $15 million.

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One thing I liked about this conversation with Jed is how quickly he cuts through the “someday” language around this stuff.

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We’ve all heard the stories about people losing access to Bitcoin because a computer disappeared, a key got lost, or a wallet became impossible to recover.

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There is something powerful about watching an idea become bigger than the person who started it.

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Can a pizza place get away with not serving pepperoni?

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Dave Rauschkolb tells new managers they cannot expect respect just because they have the title. They have to earn it.
One night, he left his dinner table, put on an apron, and helped an overwhelmed dishwasher catch up.

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Dave Rauschkolb never planned on becoming an activist. Then Deepwater Horizon happened. Watching oil pour into the Gulf for months while coastal communities faced an uncertain future changed everything for him.

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Dave Rauschkolb was one semester away from graduating when someone asked if he wanted to open a restaurant. He had never planned on it. His mom told him college would still be there, but the opportunity might not. A few months later, Bud & Alley’s opened.

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There’s no such thing as a free lunch. Ja'Baree Allen makes an interesting point that the same thing applies to AI.

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It’s pretty incredible how much AI has changed the way we work. What a copywriting workflow looked like a few years ago is completely different today.

AI is a great tool, but it still needs the human touch.

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Ja'Baree Allen is working with AI agents that can handle 10,000 inbound calls simultaneously, authenticate patients, and manage appointments.

The entire process can happen automatically. AI is really changing healthcare.

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New episode: Coinbax founder & CEO @pglyman sits down with @216Eric on @TreehouseTN to share his story, the road to Coinbax, and why now's the moment for banks and credit unions to pay attention.

Hint: it starts with fish.

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A bank, Venmo, and Cash App could all support the same stablecoin and allow money to move seamlessly between them.

That kind of interoperability could completely change payments.