"Turpentine Finance" with Sasha Orloff | Startup Finance, Leadership, CFO Strategy

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Episodes: 60

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A podcast where Sasha Orloff talks to CFOs, founders, and finance leaders at the best tech companies about what it takes to architect success. Our guests speak candidly about big business inflections, market curveballs and how they approach decision-making to tease out tactics and mental models you can use for when the pressure is on. You’ll hear stories from Instacart, Mercury, OpenAI, Andreessen Horowitz, Netflix, Runway, and more. Topics frequently touched upon M&A, Market Downturn, Macro, PMF, Fundraising, Financial Forecasting, Headcount, Equity.

Episode Date
E7: The Dealmaker’s Secrets: Steve McLaughlin on Crafting a Fundraising Story Worth $33B, CEO of FT Partners
May 16, 2024
E6: Behind the Scenes of General Catalyst: The VC Firm's Financial Operations with CFO, Mark Allen
May 10, 2024
E5: Bringing Fun Back to Finance: Redesigning Business Modelling with Runway’s Siqi Chen, CEO
May 02, 2024
E4: Can Turning Down a Huge Upround Lead to a Greater Outcome? FloQast CFO Razzak Jallow Proves It Can
Apr 25, 2024
E3: Chris Bakke on Negotiating with Elon Musk and Setting Up An M&A from Day One (3x exits)
Apr 18, 2024
E2: When COVID Hits and You are CFO at Instacart with Sagar Sanghvi
Apr 11, 2024
E1: Making Decisions in Hyper Growth with Former WeWork Strategic CFO Casey Woo
Apr 08, 2024
E52: A CFO & CEO Walk Into a Bar | CJ Gustafson & Sasha Orloff
Apr 01, 2024
E51: A Crash-course in Global Payments with Brex COO Camilla Matias Morais
Mar 28, 2024
E50: What to Know About Layoffs in 2024 with HR Heretics Kelli Dragovich and Nolan Church
Mar 25, 2024
E49: How AI Changes Your P&L with Fred Havemeyer of Macquarie
Mar 21, 2024
E48: Deep Dive on Usage Based Models with Gladly's CFO Todd Rakow
Mar 18, 2024
E47: ZoomInfo’s CFO on Capital Allocation as a Publicly Traded Company
Mar 14, 2024
E46: The Ultimate People Manager's Playbook with Dave Kline
Mar 11, 2024
E45: The Tables are Turned: CJ's First FP&A Hire Alex Peterson Interviews CJ
Mar 07, 2024
E44: Rippling CFO Adam Swiecicki on Building a Compound Startup and Channeling Ambition
Mar 04, 2024
E43: Secrets to Scaling a Marketplace Business with Jack Greco, VC and co-founder of ACV Auctions
Feb 29, 2024
E42: Stack Overflow's CFO Matt Gallatin on "Burning the Ships”
Feb 26, 2024
E41: The Seven Frameworks CFOs Need to Know: Jim Cook Round 2
Feb 22, 2024
E40: G2 CFO Chad Gold on Building a Durable Career as a Venture Backed Exec
Feb 19, 2024
E39: Understanding the AI Roadmap for Finance, Strategy, and Ops with Dr. Andre Retterath of Data-driven VC
Feb 16, 2024
E38: ClickUp CFO Dan Zhang on Frameworks to Level Up Your Decisionmaking and Communication
Feb 12, 2024
E37: Climbing the FP&A Ladder to CFO: IPOs and M&A with Philip Watson, CFO of Paddle
Feb 08, 2024
E36: The IPO Playbook: Expert Advice from Lee Kirkpatrick, Twilio’s Former CFO
Feb 05, 2024
E35: The Ultimate Guide to Vertical SaaS with Top Investor Dave Yuan of Tidemark
Feb 01, 2024
E34: BlackRock Managing Director Tony Kim on the Secrets of Durable Companies
Jan 29, 2024
E33: The Ultimate Guide to Start-up Marketing, with CEO of Thrive Digital, Jonathan Becker
Jan 25, 2024
E32: Everything You Need to Know About Competitive Moats with Lightspeed Partner Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Round 2)
Jan 22, 2024
E31: Hubspot's SVP RevOps Sid Kumar Goes DEEP on Revenue Operations
Jan 18, 2024
E30: The Business of Basketball: Rich Gotham, President of the Boston Celtics
Jan 15, 2024
E29: Building Sales Capacity: Bonfire VC’s Brett Queener on the Ratios Salesforce Used
Jan 12, 2024
E28: The Economics of Consumer Fintech Businesses with Matthew Newcomb, CFO of Chime
Jan 08, 2024
E27: Mailbag: CFOs relationship with Money, Biggest Fears, AI Predictions
Jan 04, 2024
E26: Breaking Down Annual Planning
Dec 28, 2023
E25: A Deep Dive on Marketplaces and Network Effects with James Currier of NFX
Dec 21, 2023
E24: Kyla Scanlon Decodes Economic Policy Impacting Startups
Dec 18, 2023
E23: Everything You Need to Know About Sales Rep Comp and Commissions Planning with Ryan Walsh, CEO of RepVue
Dec 14, 2023
E22: A SaaS Metrics DEEP Dive with Alex Clayton of Meritech Capital
Dec 11, 2023
E21: Building the Storytelling Muscle for CFOs with Andy Raskin
Dec 07, 2023
E20: Headcount Planning in Hypergrowth: Gusto’s Head of Corporate Finance Rohit Divate
Dec 04, 2023
E19: Firing Execs: a Guide, with HR Heretics’ Kelli Dragovich and Nolan Church
Nov 30, 2023
E18: How a Public Company CFO Prepares for Earnings Calls
Nov 27, 2023
E17: Theory Ventures’ Tomasz Tunguz on What It Takes to Be a Great CFO
Nov 20, 2023
E16: How High-Performing Marketing and Finance Teams Work Together
Nov 17, 2023
E15: CFO of FloQast on Why Finance Teams are Data Curators
Nov 13, 2023
E14: Everything You Need to Know About Pricing Products
Nov 10, 2023
E13: A Startup CEO's Guide to Board Meetings, with Dave Kellogg
Nov 06, 2023
E12: The Ultimate Guide to FP&A Tools, with Paul Barnhurst
Nov 02, 2023
E11: UiPath Chief Strategy Officer on the Sacrifices of "Speed At All Costs"
Oct 30, 2023
E10: A CFO's Guide to Understanding Sales Teams, featuring Snyk's Ethan Schechter
Oct 26, 2023
E9: Why You Should Say Yes More as a CFO, with Envoy CFO Sinohe Terrero
Oct 23, 2023
Bonus: CFO AMA with Kurtis Hanni — Career Advice, A CFO's Biggest Lies, Pricing Strategy, and More
Oct 19, 2023
E8: The Ultimate Guide to TAM (Total Addressable Market) with Lightspeed Partner Sebastian Duesterhoeft
Oct 16, 2023
E7: What CFOs Should Know About Acquisitions, from Shippo / eero CFO Olivier Adler
Oct 09, 2023
E6: Carta CFO Charly Kevers on the Importance of Truth Telling
Oct 02, 2023
E5: CFO Jenny Decker Unveils Top Frameworks Used at Front
Sep 25, 2023
E4: The Unexpected Qualities of Great CFOs with Public.com’s Sruthi Lanka
Sep 18, 2023
E3: Netflix Co-Founder Jim Cook Shares the Secrets to Being a Great CFO
Sep 11, 2023
E2: Webflow's VP Finance Ivan Makarov on Understanding Startup Equity
Sep 04, 2023
E1: Brex COO/CFO Michael Tannenbaum on Taking Risks
Aug 27, 2023