114. CFO Stories: Challenges a Bootstrap CFO faces with David Brandeis

In this week’s episode of CFO 4.0 Hannah Munro is joined by David Brandeis, CFO at PowToon to chat about the challenges David faces as a CFO of a bootstrap organisation as well as his unique journey to becoming a CFO.
Also covered in this session:
  • Where to begin building out a finance team from nothing
  • How bootstrap companies measure success
  • The effect Covid-19 has had on software-based companies
  • How to balance strategy and being hands-on as a CFO
  • What is the change that we’re seeing in finance teams and what does that have to do with value?
  • How do we define value?
  • How value goes beyond economic impact
  • What are the components of economic value identification?
  • Examples of the value identification conversation
  • What this means for the skills in finance
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