How to Grow Without Going Broke: A Fractional CFO’s $100M Blueprint
The New F*Word (F for Fractional Finance) · 2025-11-20 · 28 min
Episode notes
In this episode of The New F*Word, host Colin Hewitt is joined by Kevin Jacobs, Fractional CFO at BDO USA, to discuss the unglamorous but critical reality of cash flow management, scaling from $30M to $100M in revenue, and why contractors and manufacturers are leaving money on the table by obsessing over profit instead of cash. What You’ll Learn: * Why profit is a vanity metric and cash is your actual business lifeline * How to implement a 13-week cash flow forecast * Why diversification of customers and revenue streams prevents the cash flow death spiral * How to educate field staff and back-office teams to speak the same financial language * The fractional CFO future Kevin Jacobs is a Fractional CFO at BDO USA, bringing over 20 years of industry experience spanning construction and manufacturing. With a background that includes scaling a $30M company to over $100M in six years through strategic financial planning, ERP implementation, and working capital management, Kevin specializes in helping contractors and manufacturers gain financial clarity and sustainable growth. This is a public episode.