What Baseball Taught Us About Making the Inc. 5000

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Josh Streimer, EA, is a partner at Venti Accounting, a Coral Springs, Florida firm offering proactive accounting, tax planning, payroll, and advisory services to small business owners throughout South Florida. As an Enrolled Agent, Josh is federally licensed to represent taxpayers before the IRS, and he leads the firm alongside his mother, Laura Streimer, having stepped into the family business and modernized how it serves clients. His focus goes beyond compliance: he helps growth-minded owners understand what their numbers are telling them so they can make better decisions year-round. Josh works with clients across industries, including medical professionals, real estate brokers, contractors, and IT companies.

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This month, Venti Accounting made Inc. magazine’s 2026 annual ranking of America’s fastest-growing private companies, a list called the Inc. 5000. The easy story is that a growth number got us there, but what I see is a winning team that’s been years in the making.

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The Story Behind the Score

Watch a baseball season closely enough, and you’ll start to understand the real story behind teams that win. The player who delivers in the ninth inning is standing on the foundation of a roster built long before he ever stepped into the box. You’ll see a bench full of players who fought through a five-inning downward spiral. You’ll notice the coaches that helped that player reach peak performance.

A team that knows it’s backed up plays its best. It gets the job done in a way that a fractured team never could.

Growth Is Trust Added Up

Our Inc. 5000 ranking works the same way. The number measures three years of revenue growth. To us, growth is just trust added up. It’s how many clients handed us more of their business, and kept doing it, year after year.

That trust is earned by our own carefully built roster every day. It is added up one reconciled account, one returned call, one processed payroll at a time. Trust doesn’t show up like a stat on a scoreboard. It’s a habit that shows up on a Tuesday

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FAQ

What is the Inc. 5000?

The Inc. 5000 is Inc. magazine’s annual ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America, measured by three-year revenue growth. Making the list signals sustained, verified growth over time.

How did Venti Accounting make the 2026 Inc. 5000?

Venti Accounting earned its spot through three years of revenue growth driven by client trust: existing clients expanding their engagements and staying year after year. The firm views that growth as a direct result of the team and culture it built.

What is Venti Accounting’s Summer Catch-Up Work offer?

Through September 30, new clients can bring their books current at a flat rate, without the complexity-based pricing that catch-up work usually carries. It’s designed for growing businesses whose bookkeeping has fallen behind.

Why do a business’s books fall behind as it grows?

Bookkeeping that works fine at $400,000 in revenue often breaks down around $1.5 million as transactions grow in volume and complexity. Many owners don’t notice until the books are months or even years out of date.

Who does Venti Accounting work with?

Venti Accounting works with rapidly growing businesses that need a supported accounting team behind them, particularly owners who have outgrown handling the books solo.