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Miguel Armaza
Steve Stagner on Building Crete's $500 Million AI Roll-up to Modernize Accounting
37 minutes Posted Jun 24, 2025 at 6:00 am.
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Send us Fan Mail Miguel Armaza interviews Steve Stagner, CEO of Crete, an AI-powered roll-up deploying $500+ million to modernize the accounting industry. Backed by Thrive Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, and others, Crete is acquiring US accounting firms and transforming them with OpenAI-powered tools. Steve brings battle-tested insights from building Mattress Firm from a single $1,300 franchise to a $3.8 billion Fortune 500 giant. In this episode, we discuss (1) Why "People, Process, T...