Category: Trends & Strategy
Big-picture finance perspectives, M&A readiness, and emerging trends.
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I read a16z’s “You Need a New CFO.” It was actually pretty good. The article describes how the CFO’s job has changed: from keeping the books, to raising capital, to planning and partnering with the business. Now, the authors say, AI is changing the role again. It can assemble data more easily, do more of…
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When your voice is heard, and the great ideas you’ve dreamed and written about crawl into a glimmer of daylight, a spark of adrenaline ignites. The work expands. Brilliant developers listen, and the next day there are working prototypes. We’re debating reasoning, correcting ideas and perspectives, designing controls—financial, regulatory, business, and more—in a new world…
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I started thinking about the old build versus buy debate. At first, it seems obvious. AI changes everything. Software can be written faster than ever. Surely the advantage shifts toward building. Then I thought about the real cost of building. Not the programmers. Not the budget. The risk. We often say changing a core operating…
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The Wall Street Journal, April 2026. The AI frenzy is upon us. The market is at record highs. What’s it like on the frontier? Chaotic. We’re running 100 miles per hour. Everyone trying to prove the most efficient use case. The biggest gain. The fastest edge. The sky feels like the limit. But those at…
