Sensing 2021’s frothy market, Gold ran a dual track—pursuing fresh capital while quietly courting strategic buyers. Years of relationship‑building and rigorous records paid off when Vista Equity acquired Salesloft, delivering liquidity without ceding control and validating his mantra that finance should anticipate peaks and “make the news.” Now Watch the Complete Episode with CFO Chad Gold […]
1100: Lines, Not Dots: Turning Optionality into Outcomes | Chad Gold, CFO, Fullstory
Imagine an accounts‑receivable clerk clicking through four different systems just to finish one routine task. Chad Gold sees that bottleneck instantly. Fullstory’s newly launched Workforce product maps every mouse‑stroke of such employee journeys, then surfaces friction points so companies can “make them more productive, so they can do even more value‑added things,” Gold tells us. CFOTL:…
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When the Metrics Signal It’s Time to Derisk | Aneal Vallurupalli, CFO, Airbase
Watch as CFO Aneal Vallurupalli reflects on an earlier career chapter when he was tasked with prioritizing hiring and assessing the state of the business at a prior company. At the time team the company’s metrics were aligning well and Vallurupalli suggested to the co-founder that they should raise funds. Despite the co-founder’s initial reluctance, […]