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The GrowCFO Show is the podcast produced for finance leaders by finance leaders
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#303 The True Cost of AI: What CFOs Need to Know Ed Barrow Founder & CEO, Cloud Capital (opens the original)
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ZNZMVgTlQPe0bhhozHSRb For fifteen years the software P&L was a settled question: hosting was a rounding error, gross margins held above 80%, and investors underwrote growth against a predictable annuity stream. That assumption is breaking. AI and cloud infrastructure has become one of the largest and least predictable costs on the P&L, moving faster than most finance teams have built the vocabulary or forecasting discipline to handle it. Ed Barrow , Founder and
#302 Is AI Creating a Finance Jobs Crisis? Ademola Odewade CEO, K-Dems Consulting Ltd. (opens the original)
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/3iVbLkvEWH7j8zxvRzOsK6 Rapid advances in AI are transforming how finance teams forecast cash flow, detect fraud, and automate routine reporting, raising difficult questions about what happens to traditional roles when machines can achieve in minutes what once took analysts days. At the same time, many economies are grappling with skills shortages in some areas and structural unemployment in others, especially among younger professionals trying to break into the i
#301 Could Your High Standards Be Hurting Your Team? Jeanné Els GrowCFO Mentor (opens the original)
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/2VMHWSc8joPjk5plFwizjr High-achieving leaders often pride themselves on attention to detail, relentless drive, and demanding the best—from themselves and everyone around them. Yet the very qualities that fuel success can quietly erode team confidence, autonomy, and performance. When expectations become uncompromising, people stop taking initiative, avoid risks, and operate in fear of making mistakes. A critical leadership challenge is learning how to maintain exc
#300 Will AI Reduce Finance Team Headcount? Dan Wells Founder & CEO, GrowCFO (opens the original)
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/1fQvZ06RhWiGAaCPATzx08 In today’s finance function, the question is no longer whether AI will have an impact, but whether it will fundamentally change team size and structure. This landmark 300th episode of The GrowCFO Show asks directly: will AI actually reduce finance team headcount, and how should CFOs prepare? Dan Wells , Founder & CEO of GrowCFO , examines how automation, machine learning, and generative AI are reshaping core finance activities—from reportin
#299 What It Takes to Become CFO by 33 Audrey Lagresle CFO, Automobile En Direct (opens the original)
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/6btUL4oyp02GAFIzpP2kja Becoming a CFO by 33 takes far more than technical finance skills; it demands strategic breadth, deep business exposure, and the confidence to operate at board level. In this GrowCFO Show episode, Kevin Appleby talks with Audrey Lagresle , CFO of Automobile On Direct , about how she reached the CFO seat so early in her career and why today’s CFO must be a value creator and change leader, not just a chief accountant. Audrey shares her journe
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