Bea Ordonez still recalls the whirlwind of her first CFO post: a raw fintech start‑up where, in two short years, she recruited “over a hundred people,” built the processes they would follow and …
Inside Hybrid Cloud Growth Strategy | Dilip Upmanyu, CFO, Cloudera
A Finance Strategic MomentWhile preparing IBM variance reports, Dilip Upmanyu first realized numbers persuade only when tied to the actions that create them. He dissected every P × Q driver, practiced …
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1094: Mapping Revenue Levers for Next‑Gen Data Businesses | Dilip Upmanyu, CFO, Cloudera
Back in the 1990s, Dilip Upmanyu sat in a room filled with servers as he pieced together a homegrown database of costs and SKUs. His employer at the time couldn’t tell which products paid the bills; …
Transforming Anime Into an Engine for Growth | Travis Page, CFO, Crunchyroll
A Finance Strategic MomentWhen pundits declared niche streamers doomed in 2018-19, Travis Page saw the opposite: anime’s passionate fanbase could fuel a standalone growth engine. He doubled down on a …
1093: Anime Economics: Serving Fans, Driving Returns | Travis Page, CFO, Crunchyroll
A little more than a decade ago, Travis Page was hauling gear off a tour bus, criss-crossing the country with indie bands. One late night, sweat-soaked and exhausted, he noticed fans waiting in the …
Unified pricing positions brand for sustainable margins | Steven Miller, CFO, Warby Parker
A Finance Strategic MomentOn Friday the 13 of March 2020, Steven Miller closed Warby Parker’s 280 stores, scrapped the freshly approved budget, and launched PAR—Pause, Adjust, Redeploy. The framework …