Here’s to the next 4 years

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While I don’t take myself too seriously, I do take my new role seriously… as a representative and a storyteller for the hard work CFOs and operators put into growing their companies and moving innovation forward. Hopefully I can make them proud in that sense, and never lose the plot.

I think the internet is the last true democracy. You can write yourself into any room. I feel lucky to have written my way into wherever I am now.

What’s happened over the last four years has been a fun build. From a newsletter, to a podcast, to now a community of friends (many of whom are 100x smarter than me).

And that’s the true gift in this journey.

They also thought I wasn’t experienced enough to become a cfo. They said no way does this guy get a gig. He’s too young. He’s too different

But luckily someone in that initial reader group thought I was cool, and introduced me to some companies. And I literally wrote my way into my first cfo role.

But it gave me energy. And a few smart people had reached out to say they liked what I was putting out. I don’t know what it was. Or why I thought this was more important.

So I said fuck that I quit.

And they said you can’t quit because you don’t work here any more

I said tomato tomato🍅

I was like, well first of all it’s a Substack, not an Only Fans, I’m barely showing any skin, and I don’t think net dollar retention is all that risqué.

They told me it’s either us or this blog thing

I had three thousand subscribers at the time and wasn’t making a dollar

Well said

Yes it’s great

What’s new? Good to see you

And this is a problem because all the decisions made, directly or indirectly, somehow tie back to making money. All resource allocation is done for that end goal.

A simple explanation on day one goes a long way.

You’d be surprised by how many people go years without acruelly understanding how the company they work at monetizes.

(Wait, the supplier pays us each month? Not the end user? Wait, we package our seats in minimum quantities? Wait, our take rate is only x%?…)

lol I’m trying to figure the same thing out