How Two Mormon Missionaries Built a Multi-Billion Dollar Empire (+ The AI Playbook Behind It) | Eric Rea & Dennis Steele, Co-Founders of Podium

Podcast: Car Dealership Guy Podcast · Car Dealership Guy

Opublikowano: 2026-09-24

Eric Rea and Dennis Steele's first pitch to a car dealership ended with the general manager writing a check for the entire year on the spot, and they say that moment is what convinced them dealerships, not the tire shops they started with, would build their company. They walk through how a 700-location collision repair network let Podium's voice agent take over 61% of its after-hours phone calls, and how that agent is now on pace to help book $1 billion in repairs this year with a customer satisfaction score higher than the network's own human call center, a...