Taylor Otstot, Vice President Finance, Dashlane joined GoDaddy (now a $30billion valued) domain registry, domain registrar and web hosting company before their IP. In 8 years he climbed to senior Director of Finance running an FP&A team of 14. From this experience and as VP Finance at DashLane he says he hires for 3 things: curiosity, ambition, and finance leaders who are service-oriented. “If you bring those three things to the table, you're able to wade through a lot of the ambiguity that comes with those decision making processes.”
Also in this episode:
- Finance and FP&A as antidote to the machine of Big 4
- 3- 4 years in audit as the “perfect amount”
- Getting to strategy in FP&A
- Partnership vs accountability as a false choice for FP&A
- Improv comedy having its moment in finance
- The Tarantino approach to finance presentations
Connect with Taylor on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylorotstot/
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