Jake Liebersohn

Highly recommend Ramp's podcast. Believe it was formerly called "FinOps Today" and switched to now be called "Recession-Proof - a podcast by Ramp" One of my favorite episodes is "How Joe Garafalo is reimagining today’s finance tech stack" featuring the founder of Mosaic.tech @joe_garafalo

For those new to the startup world, I highly recommend 'The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers' by Ben Horowitz (Founder of A16z). Another one which I also love is 'Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity' by Frank Slootman (CEO of Snowflake)

"When you want you to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful" -Eric Thomas

A financial model is also critical to ensure accountability and establish targets for department heads across the org.

Always helpful to perform a TAM > SAM > SOM analysis

Re: Expenses It is critical to understand which expenses are variable versus fixed.

Sufficient buffer (placeholder dollars) in your budget will certainly be a huge help when unexpected challenges do arrive, and you bet they will!

In my opinion, adding a service component to a SaaS offering is most crucial when the underlying problem requires a certain degree of technical expertise. One related company supporting customers through a hybrid software/services offering in the accounting space is Trullion (https://trullion.com/). Trullion's model is particularly crucial in addressing the complex areas of lease accounting...

Vendor Management as a Service (VMaaS) is an intriguing industry which has popped up like crazy over the past few years. Tropic and Vendr and two of the biggest names in this space. VMaaS vendors provide companies with a solution to manage their software contracts and negotiate discounts on the companies behalf. These companies typically begin their engagement by requesting a listing of a...