From CFO to Founder: Inside the Making of Mostly Media | Paul Stansik Interviews CJ
22 Dec 2025
56m
CJ Gustafson · Business
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
AirPods as Recurring Revenue, Direct Mail’s Revival, and Other Growth Predictions | Mostly Growth
20 Dec 2025
35m
Running the Long Game in Growth Equity | Larry Contrella
18 Dec 2025
54m
Inside Rocket Companies: M&A, Metrics, and Mortgage Moats | Brian Brown
15 Dec 2025
1h 18m
Mall Santas, Chicken Fingers, and Why Focus Wins | Mostly Growth
13 Dec 2025
43m
From Amazon to Docusign: A CFO’s Guide to Building Durable Systems | Blake Grayson
11 Dec 2025
1h 13m
Fire bad customers save great ones | Cassie Young
08 Dec 2025
1h 11m
From Birding Apps to Billion-Dollar Bundles | Mostly Growth
06 Dec 2025
36m
$1B AI Finance: How CoreWeave’s CFO Built a Rocket Ship | Nitin Agrawal
04 Dec 2025
1h 3m
Driving revenue without selling | Greg Henry of 1Password
01 Dec 2025
1h 2m
Do vanity plates bring serious business? | Mostly Growth
29 Nov 2025
45m
Chirag Shah on Scaling From $30M to $1B and Prepping Companies for IPOs | Mostly Classics
27 Nov 2025
1h 8m
From SMB to Enterprise: The CFO Scaling Playbook With Andrew Casey | Mostly Classics
24 Nov 2025
1h 16m
Running the Product-Market Fit Treadmill with Brian Balfour | Mostly Growth
22 Nov 2025
52m
Mercury, Snowflake, and Boulder Care Finance Pros Weigh In | Campfire Roundup
20 Nov 2025
1h 16m
Grindr’s $0 CAC Secret from the CFO Who Launched Disney+ | Vanna Krantz
17 Nov 2025
51m
Too Big to Fail: The OpenAI Edition | Mostly Growth
15 Nov 2025
47m
SPACs Are Back (Maybe) | Jeff Bernstein of Riveron
13 Nov 2025
1h 2m
The Marketplace Plus Model Explained | Colin Gardiner of Yonder VC
10 Nov 2025
56m
AI processedIn this episode of the "Run the Numbers" podcast, host CJ interviews Colin Gardiner, a general partner at Yonder VC, about marketplace startups. Colin shares his experiences from Outdoorsy, an RV rental marketplace, and introduces his "Marketplace Plus" model, which involves integrating SaaS, FinTech, or other services...
Guess That Name: Pop Star or SaaS Bro? | Mostly Growth
08 Nov 2025
36m
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