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Tyler Sloat on selling marbles in fifth grade, products culture, the IPO and the billion-dollar aspiration at Freshworks
Our guest today is Tyler Sloat, CFO at Freshworks. Tyler is a software industry veteran and, most recently, is credited with being instrumental in Freshworks’s successful IPO. Six months on, Freshworks crossed the $100 million quarterly revenue mark. In this conversation, Tyler looks back at how he got onto a career track that made him a successful CFO. He also talks about Freshworks’s next target of a billion dollars in revenue, and how the products culture within the company will get it there.
Our guest today is Tyler Sloat, CFO at Freshworks. Tyler is a software industry veteran and, most recently, is credited with being instrumental in Freshworks’s successful IPO. Six months on, Freshworks crossed the $100 million quarterly revenue mark. In this conversation, Tyler looks back at how he got onto a career track that made him a successful CFO. He also talks about Freshworks’s next target of a billion dollars in revenue, and how the products culture within the company will get it there.
Notes:
(00:43) Intro to The Daily Tech Conversation
(00:55) Our guest today — Tyler Sloat, chief financial officer at Freshworks
(01:38) What got Tyler interested in economics and finance … and keeping options open at college
(03:08) Selling marbles in fifth grade in school, and holding garage sales
(06:22) A bit more about the marbles
(09:18) Getting to San Jose, with Coopers & Lybrand, and the beginning of a job that would put Tyler onto the track that would eventually see him become CFO
(11:48) What a Deutsch Bank did about POET Software
(15:29) The experience at Freshworks so far
(18:01) Three teams with three different numbers for the same data
(21:13) Freshworks’s IPO — was there a bit of deja vu?
(25:15) Business mindset versus accounting mindset — being the guardian of the business model
(30:06) Top attributes of a great CFO
(33:22) Advice to finance career aspirants in the tech industry — how should they prepare?
(35:53) A job Tyler started with that you didn’t know about
Theme music courtesy Free Music & Sounds:
https://soundcloud.com/freemusicandsounds
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By Forbes India - Tech ConversationsOur guest today is Tyler Sloat, CFO at Freshworks. Tyler is a software industry veteran and, most recently, is credited with being instrumental in Freshworks’s successful IPO. Six months on, Freshworks crossed the $100 million quarterly revenue mark. In this conversation, Tyler looks back at how he got onto a career track that made him a successful CFO. He also talks about Freshworks’s next target of a billion dollars in revenue, and how the products culture within the company will get it there.
Our guest today is Tyler Sloat, CFO at Freshworks. Tyler is a software industry veteran and, most recently, is credited with being instrumental in Freshworks’s successful IPO. Six months on, Freshworks crossed the $100 million quarterly revenue mark. In this conversation, Tyler looks back at how he got onto a career track that made him a successful CFO. He also talks about Freshworks’s next target of a billion dollars in revenue, and how the products culture within the company will get it there.
Notes:
(00:43) Intro to The Daily Tech Conversation
(00:55) Our guest today — Tyler Sloat, chief financial officer at Freshworks
(01:38) What got Tyler interested in economics and finance … and keeping options open at college
(03:08) Selling marbles in fifth grade in school, and holding garage sales
(06:22) A bit more about the marbles
(09:18) Getting to San Jose, with Coopers & Lybrand, and the beginning of a job that would put Tyler onto the track that would eventually see him become CFO
(11:48) What a Deutsch Bank did about POET Software
(15:29) The experience at Freshworks so far
(18:01) Three teams with three different numbers for the same data
(21:13) Freshworks’s IPO — was there a bit of deja vu?
(25:15) Business mindset versus accounting mindset — being the guardian of the business model
(30:06) Top attributes of a great CFO
(33:22) Advice to finance career aspirants in the tech industry — how should they prepare?
(35:53) A job Tyler started with that you didn’t know about
Theme music courtesy Free Music & Sounds:
https://soundcloud.com/freemusicandsounds