Startup Finance: What Actually Matters in Your P&L with Alyona Mysko, Fuelfinance скачать в хорошем качестве

Startup Finance: What Actually Matters in Your P&L with Alyona Mysko, Fuelfinance

Startup finance is not about 40-page models — it’s about staying alive long enough to win. Stacy Pavlyshyna (co-founder of Awesomic, YC S’21) sits down with Alyona Mysko, Founder & CEO of fuelfinance — ex-CFO who now runs $500M+ in customers’ P&L — and still says: “early-stage founders track WAY too much.” Stacy hosts this conversation not as a “podcaster”, but as a founder who’s been through a real ramen period herself: bootstrapping, paying $500/month salaries, testing and killing ideas, and finally scaling Awesomic as a product used by hundreds of tech teams. Together they get brutally honest about how to work with numbers as a founder: what to measure, what to ignore, when to cut — and when NOT to hire a CFO. You’ll learn: the 3–5 metrics to track at pre-seed, seed, and pre-Series A the CFO exercise: “assume you should cut 100% of expenses — now justify each line” how to tell the team “we have 3 months of runway” without sugarcoating when it’s too early to hire a CFO how much a founder can actually pay themselves 00:55 – Intro & fuelfinance numbers ($2.5M ARR, 45 ppl, $450M+ P&L) 01:30 – Key startup finance metrics founders must track 02:50 – Metrics by stage: pre-seed, seed & pre-Series A 04:01 – When NOT to hire a CFO 06:50 – Fast path to ramen profitability 08:40 – Founder salary: how much should you pay yourself? 10:40 – Biggest startup finance fail: wrong revenue recognition 12:00 – How to tell your team runway got shorter 16:00 – Scenario planning in high uncertainty for founders 20:30 – Lightning round: overrated metrics, CAC, ads, $300K mistake 22:31 – Spicy startup advice: hard truths about building with real numbers Follow Stacy on Linkedin:   / stacy-pavlyshyna   Learn more about Awesomic: https://www.awesomic.com/?utm_source=...