The Rental Roundtable
Join industry leaders and experts as they share insights, strategies, and success stories from the equipment rental world. New episodes every week.
Why Peer Groups Matter More in the Age of AI
When Noah Crowley was 12 or 13, he sat in on his first Peer Executive Groups meeting in Chicago. He didn't even know what it was. All he knew was that his dad...
From Walmart Buyer to Opening a Second Rental Location
Most second locations get talked about for years before anyone signs a lease. At Dot's Rentals & Sales, the family talked about it for a long time too. Then Dot...
What Renters Know That Rental Companies Miss
The fastest way to find out what is broken at your rental counter is to stand on the other side of it. Most operators never get that chance. Robert LeVar spent a dec...
How to Scale an Equipment Rental Company Without the Chaos
You can run a profitable rental company and still go out of business. It sounds backward, but a good share of the companies that go under were making money right up unt...
How AI and Automation Are Transforming Equipment Rental Operations
For years, the least glamorous part of running a rental business was everything that happened behind the counter. Operations. Process. The workflow that turn...
How to Bootstrap an Equipment Rental Company From a Single Skid Steer
Most people who want to start a rental company get stuck in the same two places: the capital and the risk. They wait for the perfect balance sheet, the fully-fo...
How to Build an Independent Rental Company That Beats the Nationals
Ask most people what it takes to run your own equipment rental company and they picture something easy: buy some machines, sign a few contracts, and collect th...
How to Choose the Right Software for Your Equipment Rental Company
Every so often on this show I get to close a loop, and episode 115 was one of those. My guest was Patrick Tunnicliffe, CEO of RentalWise, and the very first gu...
Founder Work-Life Balance: What Building Quipli Taught Me About Family, Health, and Letting Go
Episode 114 of The Rental Roundtable was a little different. This time, I wasn't the host. I was the guest. I sat down with Leo Gestetner on A Founder's Life...