Join Thomas McGannon on his journey to learn - what makes great partnerships? We explore stories of people working together throughout business building, investing, community and family. While much of this is brought to you through Thomas’ work as a limited partner investor, our hope is that this podcast project finds a way to share themes and lessons for anyone looking to learn from the best partnership has to offer.
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Join Thomas McGannon on his journey to learn - what makes great partnerships? We explore stories of people working together throughout business building, investing, community and family. While much of this is brought to you through Thomas’ work as a limited partner investor, our hope is that this podcast project finds a way to share themes and lessons for anyone looking to learn from the best partnership has to offer.
Jenny Bloom, Former CFO at MailChimp & Zapier | Tegus Talks w/ Akash Khanolkar (Octane), Jenny Bloom, Thomas McGannon
Unlimited Partners
56 minutes 57 seconds
3 years ago
Jenny Bloom, Former CFO at MailChimp & Zapier | Tegus Talks w/ Akash Khanolkar (Octane), Jenny Bloom, Thomas McGannon
Today is a first for UP. We share our favorite use case for Tegus - connecting our partners with industry legends! We sit down with Jenny Bloom (former CFO of MailChimp and Zapier) and Akash Khanolkar (Co-Founder of Octane). We get a great deep dive into how MailChimp and Zapier became successful. We get into how Jenny was able to lead and make pivotal decisions along the way. For any SaaS business leader, this is a great podcast to listen to. IOHO! (In our honest opinion!)
Topics Include:
Jenny Bloom's intro - Starting as a fractional CFO, spending 14 years at MailChimp as CFO (but also many other roles) and Zapier
Akash's background (Octane)
MailChimp started as a web design company's side project in 2000
Zapier was a startup at the University of Missouri and got into Y Combinator
Building a long-lasting company with no exit in mind, no startup funding
People are your biggest asset and cost
Teaching your employees financial terms so they spend wisely for the company
Integrating their platform when automation was a standard in the industry
Join Thomas McGannon on his journey to learn - what makes great partnerships? We explore stories of people working together throughout business building, investing, community and family. While much of this is brought to you through Thomas’ work as a limited partner investor, our hope is that this podcast project finds a way to share themes and lessons for anyone looking to learn from the best partnership has to offer.
