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Turning Finance into a True Strategic Business Partner: Russ Jones, Former CFO, Shopify
The Role Forward: A Strategic Finance Podcast
The Importance of Automation and Finance Technology in Shopify's Hypergrowth
I mean lessons aside from for finance people I think the real lesson here is just bring Russ in because your business goes from not that much revenue to massive amounts of revenues so feels like a great move for all these companies. Well the whole billing process I've seen companies particularly if they've done a lot of M&A you can see a company that has four or five billing systems in place and now it's very sort of cumbersome to try to do that. The more you spend probably the more you're willing to accept in terms of the system not being as good as it could be where the whole Shopify philosophy is that someone during their lunch hour could get the system up and running right but
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