Tax Hacks Beyond the Return
Tax Hacks Beyond the Return
Podcast Description
Welcome to Tax Hacks Beyond the Return, the podcast where we explore the strategic side of business growth and profitability—without all the boring tax talk. Hosted by industry insiders, we dive deep into the smart financial moves that can take your business to the next level. Whether you're a digital marketer, e-commerce mogul, or professional services business owner, we’ll give you actionable insights to maximize your revenue, streamline your operations, and keep more of your hard-earned money
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The podcast focuses on strategic business growth and tax-related strategies, featuring episodes that delve into timely topics such as tax changes for 2025, the R&D tax credit, and the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act, ensuring that listeners receive actionable insights relevant to their business operations and tax compliance
Beyond the Bottom Line is a podcast for founders and business owners who want practical insight they can actually use as they grow.
Hosted by Miguel Alexander Centeno, founder and CEO of Centurion Firm, the show features in-depth conversations with industry experts, clients, and business owners about how they think through tax, cash flow, operations, and the decisions that come with running a real business.
We focus on how things really work when you’re scaling, what challenges tend to come up, and how other founders, experts, and operators have dealt with them.
If you’re building or growing a business (often somewhere between $500K and $25M+ in revenue), this show is designed to help you make smarter financial and operational decisions and keep more of what you earn.
What happens when a self-taught 14-year-old hacker from the Dominican Republic grows up to rebuild the payments infrastructure for an entire industry? On this episode of Beyond the Bottom Line, Miguel sits down with Rodrigo Romero, founder and CEO of Aloha, a Miami-based fintech company building the banking and payments infrastructure powering the future of travel across the Americas.
Rodrigo's path started far from fintech, building his first $100 websites in Yahoo Chat rooms, landing a $2,000 client at 14 without knowing how to build what he'd just sold, and eventually co-founding Aloha with Jorge Dupri after Jorge's own boutique hotels kept losing bookings to cross-border payment friction. What began as a software play quickly became something bigger: a platform solving the real problem underneath it, moving money seamlessly across countries and currencies for travel and hospitality businesses.
In this conversation, Rodrigo breaks down why travel is one of the least ”tech-touched” industries around, how Aloha protects both merchants and travelers from fraud and chargebacks, and why compliance can never be an afterthought in fintech. He also gets candid about the hardest pivot of his company's life, when the software layer they built to bootstrap the business started outgrowing the payments business it was meant to support and how he uses AI agents (not chatbots) to run reconciliation, investor outreach, and even serve as a sparring partner for his own blind spots.
In this episode:
- How a Packard Bell computer and a printed HTML manual sparked a fintech career
- Why ”just get a customer” beats perfecting your product
- The real problem Aloha solves: payments, not just software
- How Argentina's currency tax changes are reshaping cross-border travel spending
- Using closed-loop AI agents instead of prompt-and-wait AI
- Why onboarding is a non-negotiable leadership principle
- What to look for in a co-founder (hint: not someone just like you)
About Our Guest
Rodrigo Romero is the founder and CEO of Aloha, a Miami-based fintech company building the payments and banking infrastructure powering the future of travel across the Americas. Alongside co-founder Jorge Dupri, he founded Aloha to help travel and hospitality businesses simplify cross-border payments, access local banking services, and move money seamlessly across countries and currencies.
Learn more about Aloha, or connect with Rodrigo on LinkedIn.
Connect with Miguel
Connect with Miguel on LinkedIn or reach out at [email protected].
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