The Growth-Minded CFO
Today's financial leader is more than a number cruncher - they're a growth architect and a strategic partner in the organization’s success.The Growth-Minded CFO podcast challenges the status-quo and explores how the best CFOs approach their work and lives.Hosts Lauren Pearl…
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Why "AR Automation" Was Never the Right Name: Alex Louisy on Building Financial Relationship Management (opens the original)
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For three seasons, Alex Louisy has sat on one side of the mic, asking CFOs about the decisions that shaped their careers. In this episode, he switches seats. Lauren Pearl interviews her own co-host about the company behind The Growth-Minded CFO, and why Upflow spent nearly a decade walking away from the category it set out to build. In this episode, Alex shares the origin story that started with a failed financing thesis, and led him to a much bigger problem: getting paid is still slow, manual,
Inside the CFO-Sales Partnership: How Real-Time Data Changes the Game, with Christina Liu (opens the original)
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Most CFOs can see the final sales numbers. Far fewer have a clear view of what is happening inside the pipeline before those numbers land. As CFO of Sigma Computing, Christina Liu works closely with sales to create greater visibility, accountability and confidence around commercial decisions. By bringing CRM data, customer conversations, product usage and other signals together, her team has moved away from repetitive quarter-end deal calls toward a real-time view of the pipeline. In this episod
From GE’s $100B Transformation to Klarna and DeepL: Lessons in Scaling, with Martino Cadoni (opens the original)
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Martino Cadoni has had a front-row seat to some extraordinary moments throughout his career so far. At GE Capital, he was selected to help transform a business with more than $100 billion in assets, working across M&A, strategic sales and IPOs. At Klarna, he was involved in fundraising, IPO readiness and major transactions. Today, he is CFO of DeepL. So, what has that journey taught him about building companies that actually last? In this episode, Martino joins Alex and Lauren to unpack why star
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