In this episode, Tom and Holly sit down with Curt Anderson, CFO and COO of Flexe, for a deep dive into the world of finance, leadership, and supply chain innovation. Curt takes us on his career journey from powerhouse companies like Microsoft and Amazon to the fast-paced world of startups. Sharing invaluable lessons on leveraging data, driving financial strategy, and, most importantly, investing in people. He also unpacks the pressing challenges of today’s economy, from navigating tariffs to the critical need for flexible infrastructure in supply chain management. At the heart of it all? Building an exceptional team. Because as a leader, your team is an extension of you, and success starts with setting the right tone from the top.

Curt:

“We have a ton of data and…the volume of data is not the issue. Sometimes it's the quality of the data. And sometimes it's the speed with which you can access the data…At a smaller company and the companies that I've been privileged to be part of, a lot of the data tends to be more sales and customer focused data and then system generated operating data. It's not always clean. It's not always super easy to get to. One of my sort of mantras is to hire the FP&A function out really early as I'm building my teams, because, you kind of need people who can kind of sift through the data and make sense of it and create structure around the data so that you can understand it.”

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