Podcast Summary.
Written companions to the podcast — the key ideas from each conversation, captured for readers who'd rather read.
Podcast summaries are written companions to the Strategy of Finance podcast — the key ideas, frameworks, and moments from each conversation, captured for readers who’d rather read than listen. Each one distills an episode into a few minutes: the argument, the numbers that matter, and the takeaways worth keeping.
They sit alongside the full episodes for anyone who wants the substance without the runtime, and double as a searchable record of what each guest actually said.
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067 Without benchmarks you're naked — Michiel de Bruijn on greenfield SaaS procurement Podcast Summary 066 Outcomes are easy, enablers are hard — Srini Phatak on the Fortune-500 CFO job Podcast Summary 065 Strategy is a branch of pricing — Jean-Manuel Izaret on the inversion Podcast Summary 060 Demo to production — Harsh Joshi on the chasm enterprise AI keeps falling into Podcast Summary 059 Flip the equation — Rocky Lalvani on profit as the driver, not the residual Podcast Summary 056 Between the commodity and the one-off — Tim Smith on pricing as a discipline Podcast Summary 052 The 1% challenge — Per Sjöfors on pricing as the unread P&L line Podcast Summary 051 Communication beats negotiation — Murali on enterprise procurement Podcast Summary 050 Three commandments for a media CFO — Sanjay Jain on 5% economics Podcast Summary 049 Cap table as editorial asset — Peter Walker on Carta's insights function Podcast Summary 047 Procurement is sales without the quota — Reba Cox on the function of functions Podcast Summary 042 The synthesizer — Alex Small on strategy as connective tissue, not a function Podcast Summary 040 The co-founder CFO — Priya Sharma on the decisions only a founder can make Podcast Summary 037 IPO is an entry event, not an exit — Arvind Agarwal on the public-company CFO Podcast Summary 036 The IPO masterclass lives before the bell — Rakib Azad Podcast Summary 031 The best CFOs work for the best CFOs — Dan Himple Podcast Summary 030 The finance pyramid — David Yan on insights, not raw data Podcast Summary 029 Risks hiding in plain sight — Alex Urmersbach on the paranoid CFO Podcast Summary 028 Finance is the heart, not the brake — Akshay Sarma on the lender CFO Podcast Summary 027 Less close, more counsel — David Junius on the strategic CFO Podcast Summary 026 Subtract the work — Arjun Mehta on the leader who eliminates Podcast Summary 025 The CFO diamond — Karan Bhople on the dispassionate chair Podcast Summary 024 Run the house or run the strategy — Pankaj Naik on tech CFOs Podcast Summary 021 I want to be a CFO — Joy Mbanugo on the deliberate path Podcast Summary 019 The pendulum — Mika Kasumov on strategic finance Podcast Summary 016 Today's controller is yesterday's CFO — Pete Boyes Podcast Summary 015 Test match to T20 — Ananth Avva on the leaking CFO chair Podcast Summary 013 System-driven, not people-dependent — Amit Kumar Podcast Summary 010 The Conscious Keeper — Venkatesh Tarakkad Podcast Summary 008 What you can control — KJ Tjon Podcast Summary 007 Change the tires of a fast-moving car — Jay Sahal Podcast Summary