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723: When the Crisis Is a Catalyst | Gregg Clevenger, CFO, LiveVox

"Remember that no one arrives in the CFO seat fully prepared for everything that will be expected of them. Surround yourself with people who know more than you and don’t be afraid to seek their advice and counsel. Ask questions, listen to what you hear, and then lead." –CFO Gregg Clevenger of LiveVox The Asian…
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663: Building a Better Product | Hoang Vuong, CFO, Amplitude

We have been speaking with Hoang Vuong for little more than a minute when he mentions the CFO mentor whom he credits with having influenced his early career decisions. “Hey, what do you really want to do when you grow up?” was the question that Vuong remembers being asked by the CFO, who had gotten…
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652: Exposing Gross Margin’s Hidden Levers | Jeff Nichols, CFO, UJET

In 2016, when Jeff Nichols had been a senior member of Glassdoor’s FP&A team for 2 years, he and other members of the finance team were confronting the nagging truth that the firm’s path to going public wasn’t getting any shorter. The online job recruitment firm’s efforts to grow its profit margins had met only…
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557: Sharpening Your Finance Team’s Growth Mind-Set | Bill Ruckelshaus, CFO, Extrahop

Guest: Bill Ruckelshaus Company: ExtraHop Headquarters: Seattle, WA Connect: www.extrahop.com CFOTL: What is the latest chapter for this business - what is it about? Ruckelshaus: It's very much growth, expansion, and scaling that will consume capital, so raising capital will be a part of my role. It's also working with the leadership team to lean…
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552: Making Customer Outcomes Top of Mind | Valerie Burman, CFO, GuideSpark

Had Valerie Burman entered the CFO office a decade ago, you wonder whether the role would be as good a match for the accomplished finance executive as it appears to be today. Back in 2007, after working nearly a decade in M&A as an investment banker, Burman exited a banking career to take on a…
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479: Keeping the Customer Top-of-Mind | Stefan Schulz, CFO, PROS Holdings, Inc.

Among the many flights that CFO Stefan Schulz has taken between Minneapolis and Houston over the years, few are etched in his memory better than a certain return flight to Minneapolis—during which he created an ambitious list of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) action items. The list that Schultz created in the air that day was long and…
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CFO Priorities Inside Fast-Growth Firms: A Talk with Jeff Epstein of Bessemer Venture Partners

  Jeff Epstein is an operating partner with Bessemer Venture Partners and the former chief financial officer of Oracle.  Prior to joining Oracle, Epstein served as chief financial officer of several public and private companies, including DoubleClick (sold to Google), King World Productions (sold to CBS) and Nielsen’s Media Measurement and Information Group. Event Venue: […]

431: Arriving at Your S-Curve’s Inflection Point | Sian Wang, CFO, FastSpring

Regarding Growth: "We've done very well historically in terms of year-on-year revenue growth. But as we climb the inflection point of that curve, I think that we're trying to figure out how high our growth can be. This might involve greater international expansion or maybe improving or expanding our product offering. So there are a…
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380: Achieving a Long-Term View | Naren Goel, CFO, Ephesoft

For Naren Goel, CFO of Ephesoft, strategy execution begins with discussions involving functional business leaders from across the company. Only from conversational engagement (or dialogues) can finance identify the many critical strategic inputs that must inform the company's business model. Join us as Naren explains how he plans to prioritize the many aspects of finance…
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350: How Travel Became One CFO’s Ticket to Ride | Dan Figenshu, CFO, Rocketrip

It was no coincidence that on the same day that Dan Figenshu agreed to join Rocketship as its CFO, the software developer lost one of its most loyal repeat customers—the reason being, of course, that Figenshu and the customer were one and the same. Having built a finance career inside New York's margin-minded media industry, Figenshu…
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