

Run the Numbers
Run the Numbers is a business podcast about financial metrics and business models for CFOs, aspiring CFOs, finance leaders, and ambitious people operating tech startups. Hosted by CJ Gustafson, CFO and writer of Mostly Metrics, the show shares lessons, frameworks, and operator insights from the trenches as a tech exec. Think of it as a playbook for the things CJ wishes he knew earlier in his career, covering SaaS metrics, annual budgeting, forecasting, headcount, equity, dilution, fundraising, and the decisions that drive performance and growth.
Episodes


“Annual Planning Is So Last Year” – Ross Grainger, CFO of Paradox, on What He Does Instead

Mitigating Churn: A Masterclass in Customer Retention with Will Cureton, CFO of Nitrogen Wealth

The ROI of OKRs (and Advice on Building Analytics Teams) with Sisense CFO Alyssa Shadinger

16 P&Ls: The CFO’s Guide to M&A Operational Complexity with Dotmatics’ Rebeca Sanchez Sarmiento

Building a Billion-Dollar Pipeline: A Deep Dive into Rubrik’s Sales Strategy with Samarth Mital

Is Stock-Based Compensation Real? A Masterclass with Clio CFO Curt Sigfstead

Guiding Stakeholders Through Business Model Transitions with Varonis CFO & COO Guy Melamed

Less but Better: Miro’s Justin Coulombe on the Power of Strategic Divestment in SaaS

Private to Public to Private: Navigating Major Transitions with Dialogue Health CFO, Navaid Mansuri
In this podcast, Navaid Mansuri, the CFO of Dialogue, a Canadian health tech company, shares insights from his career. He discusses his previous experience negotiating major sports broadcast rights at Rogers, including a groundbreaking NHL deal, and the challenges he faced in the evolving media landscape during the ris...

Personal Hypergrowth: Tipalti’s Sarah Spoja and Evolving as a CFO from Seed to IPO
In this podcast, Sarah Spoja, CFO of Tipalti, shares her insights on mergers and acquisitions, managing rapid growth, and the changing responsibilities of the CFO. She discusses her approach to prioritizing external relationships, stressing the value of building deep connections rather than just superficial networking....

The Largest Software IPO Ever: How Snowflake Still Left Money on the Table

Risk, Reward, and Revolution: Financing The Clean Future of Flight with ZeroAvia's Georgy Egorov

The Art and Science of a Day-One IPO Pop with OneStream Software CFO Bill Koefoed

The New Backbone of Finance: Zero Hash's Adam Berg on Financial Services Infrastructure and Crypto

Unpacking the Future of Global Payments with TerraPay’s CFO Ganapathy Subramaniam

Secondaries, Continuation Vehicles, and Sidecar Funds: Private Equity with HarbourVest’s Scott Voss

Monetizing Community Engagement: The Business of Fitness with Strava CFO Lily Yang

Is ARR Dead? SaaS Metrics in the Age of AI with Kyle Poyar of Growth Unhinged
In this episode of the Run the Numbers podcast, CJ interviews Kyle Poyar, a venture capitalist and expert in pricing, packaging, and product-led growth, about SaaS metrics in the age of AI. They discuss trends in AI pricing models, moving from access-based pricing to outcome-based pricing, and the challenges CFOs face ...

Pixar Movies and Wealth Management Tech: Finance and Storytelling with Altruist’s Marc Greenberg
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