Cloud Radio · 2023-06-07 · 28 min
Our Guest: CJ Gustafson is the Chief Financial Officer of PartsTech , an automotive-focused vertical SaaS platform which recently raised a Series C led by OpenView Ventures. He is also the author of Mostly Metrics , a metrics-centric SaaS newsletter. Episode Topics: The dichotomy between investor metrics and operator metrics. Metrics that investors can overemphasize. What metrics CJ prioritizes when running a business? CJ's insights on raising a Series C in a challenging equity market in 2023. His advice on building out a finance function in an early stage company? Identifying potential sources of "financial athletes" to hire. CJ’s views on choosing the right company and maximizing the upside from your equity compensation.. Episode Resources: About Cloud Ratings: Cloud Ratings is a customer outcomes-focused, data-driven software research analyst firm. We exist to allow organizations to make more confident, lower-risk software purchasing decisions. Our Cloud Ratings Category Reports combine user reviews with verified vendor data to impartially identify leading software products.
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