Damon Fletcher, ex-CFO of Tableau, on Great Analytics
FP&A Today · 2025-03-05 · 41 min
Episode notes
Today’s guest is perhaps the leading CFO name in data and analytics, the ex-CFO of Tableau and DataRobot. Now as Founder & CEO at Caliper, Fletcher draws on over a decade of executive experience at the intersection of finance and analytics. At Caliper, his mission is transform cloud cost and usage data into actionable insights In this episode Fletcher discusses The relationship between analytics and the CFO Subscription, net dollar retention, customer retention, and annual recurring revenue as key metrics Getting from CFO to CEO and the learning curve How we rely on AI and predictive ML and seasonal patterns to find anomalies Getting to base analytics and starting in AI Challenges and waste with cloud and holding engineers accountable The opportunity to save 30% on cloud spend Moving from Excel to Google Sheets
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