Lauren Pearl is a Business Strategist and CFO Advisor who helps startup teams build data-driven businesses. The 3x founder with over 13 years of startup leadership experience now serves as CFO, advisor, and instructor for over 300 growing companies. She also runs the podcast “Growth Minded CFO” and offers a free course on financial modeling.
In this episode:

Financial models at startups
Sniffing out BS at startups
Storytelling as a pitchdeck 
Getting startups to engage with finance 
Free financial modeling course 
Being a punk band roadie 
Functionality of Excel 

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