Sruthi Lanka (CFO of Public.com) joins host CJ Gustafson to discuss the unexpected qualities of great CFOs. If you’re looking for an ERP platform, check out our sponsor, NetSuite: https://netsuite.com/metrics 
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TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Episode Preview: CJ’s learnings from Sruthi
(03:40) SEGMENT: CJ's opening “Off the Books” monologue - listener mailbag: where to allocate engineers who maintain infrastructure
(05:17) Start of interview: Sruthi on how a CFO and CEO partnership should look like
(09:59) How do you define important metrics for your team?
(13:03) Data ownership at Public.com
(14:36) Sponsor: Netsuite
(16:00) Sruthi's favorite frameworks for decision-making
(20:57) What separates a great CFO from a good CFO?
(24:25) Tactics on how to be more embedded in different departments within your company
(29:24) The biggest differences between a traditional SaaS CFO and CFO at Public.com
(31:33) On retention
(34:45) How to deal with situations where you are wrong
(38:15) Tactics on modeling
(39:20) On mentorship, management, giving advice
(45:31) Balancing being a mother with being CFO
(47:52) Long-ass lightning round: an example of when Sruthi screwed up on the job, Public.com’s finance software stack, the craziest thing someone has tried to expense