Finance Demystified for Engineering Leaders

Name: Finance%20Demystified%20for%20Engineering%20Leaders
Uploaded: 2024-09-13

Posted Sep 13, 2024 | Views 132

speaker

Jayesh Sureshchandra

VP Engineering @ Carta

Jayesh has over 17 years of experience building scalable B2B Enterprise SaaS applications, and is especially passionate about using technology to solve complex domain problems. He is currently a VP of Engineering at Carta, running both product and platform teams for Carta's Fund Administration product. Prior to Carta, Jayesh was the VP of Engineering at Duetto, a cloud-based SaaS application that drives pricing and distribution decisions for hotels. He also worked at Salesforce for over 5 years where he built several foundational features for the Force.com platform. Jayesh holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Slides available here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qhQXirB44fCtWemnqrzTJS4ANnCe8vj5xr7GU2bhO8c/preview#slide=id.p

When your CFO starts talking about “COGS, margin, Rule of 40, Quick Ratio, ARR, revenue etc…” how does engineering fit into this? In this session, Jayesh Sureshchandra (VPE @ Carta) helps us bridge the gap between finance and engineering! Engineering spend often represents a significant part of a company's budget and is especially important now in today’s non-ZIRP environment. You’ll learn how to comprehend different financial metrics, recognize their trends as your company evolves, and understand how strategic decisions within engineering can influence these numbers.

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