#547 Mike Gonzalez on Building A New Category In Finance

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp
0:07.5	podcast, simply the best podcast out there. Let's kick this thing off. Mike Gonzalez is the CEO and co-founder
0:14.7	at Trace, the first service desk for finance teams. Before Trace, Mike developed a deep empathy for the problems
0:22.0	finance teams face as the vice president of financing strategy at Zenefits, where he led
0:26.9	FP&A. Before that, Mike built and managed financial systems at Facebook. In this conversation,
0:32.7	we discussed working at Facebook and Zenefits, building finance teams, real-time data, financial planning,
0:39.1	asset allocation, startups, and entrepreneurship. I really enjoyed this conversation with Mike,
0:44.8	and I hope you do as well. Before we get into the episode, though, I want to quickly talk about
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1:56.1	largest and oldest Bitcoin exchanges in the world. Crackin is consistently named one of the best
2:00.4	places to buy
2:01.0	and sell crypto online thanks to their excellent service, low fees, versatile funding options,
2:06.4	and rigorous security standards. But that is only part of the story. They've been on the forefront
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