Jenny Bloom, Former CFO at MailChimp & Zapier | Tegus Talks w/ Akash Khanolkar (Octane), Jenny Bloom, Thomas McGannon

Today is a first for UP. We share our favorite use case for Tegus - connecting our partners with industry legends! We sit down with Jenny Bloom (former CFO of MailChimp and Zapier) and Akash Khanolkar (Co-Founder of Octane). We get a great deep dive into how MailChimp and Zapier became successful. We get into how Jenny was able to lead and make pivotal decisions along the way. For any SaaS business leader, this is a great podcast to listen to. IOHO! (In our honest opinion!)

Topics Include:

• Jenny Bloom's intro - Starting as a fractional CFO, spending 14 years at MailChimp as CFO (but also many other roles) and Zapier
• Akash's background (Octane)
• MailChimp started as a web design company's side project in 2000
• Zapier was a startup at the University of Missouri and got into Y Combinator
• Building a long-lasting company with no exit in mind, no startup funding
• People are your biggest asset and cost
• Teaching your employees financial terms so they spend wisely for the company
• Integrating their platform when automation was a standard in the industry
• Going through Covid
• Financial learnings from a SaaS business
• It's always about your plan

Jenny's songs are...Earth, Wind & Fire - September & Kelly Clarkson - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)

Akash's song is Billy Joel - Piano Man

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Tegus Research 

My Marketplace Builder

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