The Hard Part with Evan McCann

Praveer Melwani from Figma

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Praveer Melwani is the CFO of Figma.


Takeaways

  • Joining Figma as employee 25 (now at ~3000)
  • Scaling with Figma and moving into the CFO role
  • Nuances to the CFO role at Figma
  • Developing and learning from mentors
  • How the CFO role is changing especially in high-growth tech companies
  • Empowering and building a finance team
  • The importance of understanding business drivers and key metrics as someone on the finance team
  • How the finance team works with product and other teams, meetings, cadence and more
  • What makes Figma such a special company and product
  • Tools the Figma finance team uses
  • Timing on building and hiring a finance team at a startup


    • Chapters

    00:00 The Journey to Figma

    04:12 Scaling with the Company

    06:14 The CFO Role at Figma

    08:04 Seeking Advice and Learning from Others

    11:26 The Changing Role of the CFO

    14:55 Empowering and Working with the Team

    17:11 Communicating with Other Teams and Leaders

    21:47 Working with Product and Other Teams

    25:26 What Makes Figma Special

    28:24 Exciting Tools in Finance

    31:00 Hiring for the Finance Function

    34:07 Timing and Building the Finance Function

    36:34 Dealing with Hard Times


    Keywords

    Figma, CFO, journey, first principles, business gut, metrics, finance team, data tools, automation, intelligent people

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