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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/

https://calipersoftware.ai

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