Behind the launch of the QuickBooks Business Network with Intuit's Juliana Berger

Welcome to the Tearsheet Podcast. I'm Zack Miller, Tearsheet's editor in chief. I don’t know what they serve at the snack bar at Intuit, maker of QuckBooks and the financial ecosystem around it, but when you speak to senior leadership, they seem almost maniacal about serving SMBs. And what the firm has done over the past few years is make its bookkeeping software the center of a financial services ecosystem that includes payments, lending, and banking.  Now, Intuit is looking to take its ecosystem and tools to midmarket and B2B firms with the launch of the QuickBooks Business Network which creates one of the largest B2B networks and automates B2B payments, improving overall cash flow for this particular user set I’m joined by Juliana Berger, the director of payments for QuickBooks. You’ll hear the passion she has for serving SMBs. We talk about the breadth and depth of Intuit’s SMB offering. Juliana shares the pain points SMBs are feeling in this economy and what the software firm is doing to address them. There’s a lot of talk about invoicing and payments flows with an increasing amount of automation mixed in. Her excitement about the space is infectious. Intuit’s Juliana Berger is my guest today on the podcast.