FP&A Today Damon Fletcher, ex-CFO of Tableau, on Great Analytics
Mar 5, 2025
40:44
Today’s guest is perhaps the leading CFO name in data and analytics, the ex-CFO of Tableau and DataRobot. Now as Founder & CEO at Caliper, Fletcher draws on over a decade of executive experience at the intersection of finance and analytics. At Caliper, his mission is transform cloud cost and usage data into actionable insights
In this episode Fletcher discusses
- The relationship between analytics and the CFO
- Subscription, net dollar retention, customer retention, and annual recurring revenue as key metrics
- Getting from CFO to CEO and the learning curve
- How we rely on AI and predictive ML and seasonal patterns to find anomalies
- Getting to base analytics and starting in AI
- Challenges and waste with cloud and holding engineers accountable
- The opportunity to save 30% on cloud spend
- Moving from Excel to Google Sheets
Connect with Damon LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/damon-fletcher-bb8a6614/