Run the Numbers
Run the Numbers is a twice-weekly podcast about financial metrics and business models, designed for ambitious people operating tech startups. It's a collection of things host CJ Gustafson (CFO at Partstech and writer of Mostly Metrics) has learned and thought about in the trenches as a tech CFO.This show is meant to serve as a playbook of sorts for the stuff CJ wishes he knew earlier in his career, both from experience and from copying people smarter than himself.Topics frequently touch upon Sta...
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Episodes (324)
Zuora’s COFO On Going Private and Pricing AI | Todd McElhatton
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LiveRamp’s CFO Rebuilt Pricing From Scratch | Lauren Dillard
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The NScale IPO | A Neocloud S1 Breakdown
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How Media Actually Makes Money | Blake Saunders
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How to Sell Your Company: A Multi-Time CFO's Full Playbook | Rick Smith
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Masterwork’s CFO Runs 12 AI Agents at Once | Nigel Glenday
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How Oura Built a $1.4 Billion Business Around a Tiny Ring
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What 20 Years of Software Investing Says About AI | Matt Hedberg
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Andy Ellis: How to Lead Without Becoming the Hero, the Villain, or the Bottlenec...
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40 Years of IPOs with Jay Ritter: What the Data Actually Says
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How AI Is Rewriting Product-Market Fit, Pricing, and Go-to-Market
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The Stripe Guide to Pricing, Billing, and Quote-to-Cash with Wisam Hirzalla
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The CFO-COO Is Coming: Meredith Finn of Front on the Future of Finance
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Xero’s CFO: Why Finance Is Taking On More of the Business
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A CFO Explains Private Jets
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The Business of Saving Lives: Inside RapidSOS
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Building an AI-Native Finance Team with Plaid CFO Seun Sodipo
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How to Tell a Demanding Founder They’re Wrong
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The Four Stages of World-Class FP&A with Datadog’s AJ Ljubich
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Dave McClure and Aman Verjee on Angel Investing at Scale, 500 Startups, and Prac...
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Cumberland Farms S-1 Breakdown: Fuel, Snacks, and Debt
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Token Economics, AI ROI, and the Future of Investment Banking with Rahul Rekhi
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Jersey Mike’s S-1 Breakdown: How a $4.2B Sandwich Machine Works
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The CFO Who Was “Ill Equipped” to Save Lehman Brothers
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How Finance Teams Are Actually Using AI | Opendoor, Datadog, PwC
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Lime’s S-1 Breakdown: The $1.8B Scooter IPO
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How Confluent’s CFO Runs Planning, Pricing, and Prioritization
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Salesforce Paid $2.1 Billion for His Company: Meet the CFO Who Made it Happen
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SoundCloud CFO Dan Bettes on Marketplace Liquidity, Music, and Forecasting
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Bending Spoons S1: How Italy's Software Acquirer Built a $20B Empire From the Di...
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Vercel's CFO Marten Abrahamsen: Move Fast or Fall Behind
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A CFO Explains Stock Exchanges
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Zapier's CFO on Closing the Books in 5 Days, AI Hiring Bars, and M&A Discipline
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Navan CFO Aurélien Nolf on Resource Allocation, IR, and AI in Finance
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SpaceX Is Going Public: Here's Everything You Need to Know
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5 Ways CFOs Can Build a Better Sales Engine with Paul Stansik
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Figure CFO Macrina Kgil on Blockchain Lending, Stablecoins, and IPOs
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Cerebras IPO: S1 Breakdown - The Giant Chip, the OpenAI Deal, and the $24B Backl...
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The Investor Behind Warby Parker, Harry’s, and the Psychology of Consumer Growth...
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Inside Mostly Media: The Team Behind Run the Numbers
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Diamonds, De Beers, and the Death of Artificial Scarcity | A CFO Explains Diamon...
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The North Face Former CFO: How Finance Builds Iconic Brands
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How Great Deals Are Found, Evaluated, and Won | PSG’s Chris Nesbitt
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Why Health Tech Doesn’t Operate Like SaaS | Manu Diwakar, CFO of Virta Health
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Inside Figma’s Financial Playbook with CFO Praveer Melwani
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Wealthfront’s CFO on Automation, Compounding Growth, and Going Public
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How Strategic CFOs Get It Wrong
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CFO Explains: The Rise of Secondaries and the Death of the IPO Path
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Fanatics CFO on CAC, LTV, and Capital Allocation Across Verticals
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AI Pricing and the Hidden Growth Lever Most CFOs Ignore
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