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Run the Numbers

by CJ Gustafson
65 EPISODES
Feb 2024
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How To Win at Early-Stage Sales (With the Guy Who Helped Take Snyk From $0 to $100M+)
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Your Company Is a Utility Function: Here’s How to Pull the Right Levers
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NEW DATA: Q2 Private Company Benchmarks
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“Let’s Just See What Breaks” — Intuit’s CFO on Being a Disruptor When You’re Already the Incumbent
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The Evolution of Software Pricing (A History Lesson)
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“Most Sales Reps Are Coin-Operated”: A Guide To Building Better Comp Plans
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Beat, Raise, Repeat: Former IBM CFO on Developing Watson, AI Automation & Financial Stewardship
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The CEO's #1 Job: Capital Allocation
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“AI Might Be Coming for Your Job, but There’s No Better Time To Be an Accountant”
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Don’t Sign That Yet: Small M&A Mistakes That Can Cost You Big
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The Shrinking Public Markets, and Rise of Private Liquidity Loops
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“Anything new needs to have AI core to its offering”: Amy Butte on How Navan Is Redefining Finance Ops
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Inside the “PayPal Mafia”: One of the Most Influential “Seed Funds” in Tech History with Jimmy Soni
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IPO Alert: Breaking Down Figma's S1 Filing
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The Modern CFO: Scott Engler on How To Master the Most Important Role in the Company
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I sold a company, and then fired myself immediately
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Inside the CFO Tech Stack (and the Failure Museum): Insights From Norwest’s Sean Jacobsohn
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Big Systems Thinking for Building a Finance Org: Advice From a Zoom Hypergrowth Survivor
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Preparing for Google Zero
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a16z’s Alex Immerman on the Evolving Role of the CFO in the Age of AI
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The CFO As the Culture Leader: KPIs, OKRs, and Embracing Failure To Achieve Success
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Saying the quiet part out loud
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Customer-First Finance: PagerDuty's Secret to “Small” Public Company Success
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From $30M to Almost $1B: A Guide to Hypergrowth, IPO Prep, and Navigating the Public Market
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Bet on Yourself, and Putting in "Time on the Board" (CJ gets interviewed)
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From Massive Corporate to Tiny Startup: Foodics CFO Abdullah Tahboub on Making the Leap
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Profits vs. Growth: What X, Deel & Clay Are Teaching Us
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“Your budget is counter-productive” — Michiel Boere, CFO of Remote
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“Most Decisions Are Reversible” – A Masterclass in Decision Making with Zapier’s Ryan Roccon
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“Annual Planning Is So Last Year” – Ross Grainger, CFO of Paradox, on What He Does Instead
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16 P&Ls: The CFO’s Guide to M&A Operational Complexity with Dotmatics’ Rebeca Sanchez Sarmiento
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Is Stock-Based Compensation Real? A Masterclass with Clio CFO Curt Sigfstead
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The Largest Software IPO Ever: How Snowflake Still Left Money on the Table
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The New Backbone of Finance: Zero Hash's Adam Berg on Financial Services Infrastructure and Crypto
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Monetizing Community Engagement: The Business of Fitness with Strava CFO Lily Yang
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Pixar Movies and Wealth Management Tech: Finance and Storytelling with Altruist’s Marc Greenberg
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Redefining Buy Now, Pay Later: A Customer-First Approach with Affirm’s COO & CFO Michael Linford
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Why Fundraising Has Slowed Down: Insights from Emergence Capital’s Benchmarking Report
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The Evolution of Software Pricing and Packaging with Pricing Expert Jason Kap
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NPV-Positive Decision Making: Thumbtack CFO Larry Roseman’s Winning Framework
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Finding “Personal Product-Market Fit”: Career Advice from CJ in Q&A With Intern Charlie
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Revenue Durability and Monetization Strategies in SaaS With CJ Gustafson
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Inside a Robot-as-a-Service Company With Locus Robotics CFO Dustin Pederson
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Risk & Return: Applying an Investment Mindset to Finance With Ramp's Alex Song
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“Do Nothing” and Other Financial Wisdom From 6sense CFO Rob Goldenberg
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“Keep the Take Rate Low” - Turo’s Chuck Fisher on Scaling a Successful Peer-to-peer Marketplace
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M&A in Tech, Deal Desks, and Resource Allocation: Insights From 8x8 CFO Kevin Kraus
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The Mindshare Advantage: Marketplace Success With Boris Wertz of Version One Ventures
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“Take a Risk”: Silicon Valley Veteran Molly Graham on How to Scale Yourself & Your Startup
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“Steal Your Boss's Job”: Calendly CFO John McCauley on Leadership, Ownership & Growth
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