So, what genetic disposition do you need to be a CFO? Essentially, you need to be miserable, you need to be the sort of person who takes drinks away from people at the end of a party.
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Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who's using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks.
You can imagine what a dorm room environment is to a CF parent. It's like, oh my God. It's crazy.
You see more women in the CFO ranks. It's an evolution.
I wanted a CFO with public company experience; I needed an HR department, new office space, and a board which could help me grow the business. Insight, the private equity firm I chose, helped me with all that.
The only way people can really be excellent is with truth, so you have to have a CFO who will have the intellectual capacity and conviction to tell you you're wrong and try to support that with data.
It's awesome that you have a female CFO and a female GC, but if you look at the investing partners, and it's 15 dudes, I do think those people are going to get left behind if they don't get with where the world is going.
I'm not comfortable with getting a job by being at the right Hollywood party; I'm not a terribly sociable creature.
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
Barring public demand, any person who pursues the presidency out of personal ambition must be suffering from a basic genetic defect.
The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.
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