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Yeah, my name is Andy Gothier, President Fractional CFO with Mighty Startup. Previously co-founded a SaaS company back in 2015, grew to Series B funding and exited as the business model was shifting and pivoting.

Let's just dig in here.

So in the next 20 minutes, we'll talk about three different phases of the finance function

for startups.

Those phases can be broken down into planning, reporting, and analytics, and strategy.

And I thought it would be helpful to give a little bit more context on myself

and why you might want to listen to what I have to say.

So in my experience co-founding Botkeeper,

we were on a mission to develop and automate the bookkeeping function

for small businesses and startups.

And I led the finance and operations team, again, grew to over hundreds of customers,

substantial ARR and left at the time of our series B funding.

The gist of my experience there was I oversaw a lot of small business bookkeeping and accounting and could see a lot of red

flags in how small businesses were managed. And so I left to pursue my passion helping startups

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