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Well, today I have a special guest on the Code Story podcast, Jesse Rubenfeld, the founder

of Fin Optimal, prior CFO of Limewire and controller at D.E. Shaw. He has extensive experience

in financial operations and automating them. Jesse, thank you for being on the show today.

Thanks so much for having me, Noah. Absolutely. Before we jump into Fin Optimal and all things there,

help me and my audience a little bit more about you. Thank you. I'd love to.

I started my career at LimeWire doing everything you do when you're an entry level accountant,

data entry, copying and pasting, entering bills, even filing some paper back in the early 2000s.

And as a coding enthusiast, I started trying to automate as much of that as I could.

So first, I learned Pearl from some of the people around me. There was a lot of developers there.

Eventually, I learned Python. And those skills allowed me to speed up the accounting function I was

charged with many fold. And over time, I started looking for

ways to export that skill beyond my full-time employer and start to do that for private clients

that were on QBO. And that's where Fin Optimal started. Okay, Pearl then to Python.

So what did you do to learn those languages?

Did you just grab a book and go?

Did you go through some sort of microcourse?

Tell me a little bit about that.

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