Blood Sweat & Balance Sheets Podcast

Blood Sweat & Balance Sheets

Mike Whitmire
FloQast Co-Founder and CEO Mike Whitmire talks with fellow entrepreneurs, investors, accountants, and more to discuss the trials and tribulations of starting a tech company — while pulling back the curtain on some of the world’s most successful companies in the process.
How to Update the Path to Accounting?
When meetings and billable hours start eating into your sleep schedule and overall wellness on, say, the week of your wedding, something's got to give. And, with fewer students taking an interest in accounting, the time for change was yesterday. Join FloQast CEO Mike Whitmire and Katie Thomas, CPA, founder and owner of Leaders Online LLC – both Ernst & Young veterans – as they sketch out a better, kinder future for the field (universities, take note), and share bright and dark spots from their respective careers. Plus, get to know more about Leaders Online, and the unique skill set Katie and her team can offer your firm.
Sep 7, 2022
38 min
From Deloitte to World’s Top Pickleball Player: Blood, Sweat & Balance Sheets
On this episode of Blood, Sweat & Balance Sheets, Mike is joined by Zane Navratil, world #1 Pickleball player and former Deloitte auditor. Zane talks about picking up pickleball while working in audit, helping grow the sport, and balancing his career as an athlete with his business and acting as an ambassador for the world's fastest growing sport.
Aug 10, 2022
29 min
The CFO, Revisited: How Should Finance Execs and CEOs Be Collaborating
Being a CFO in 2022 is probably a lot different than it was just a few years ago. The demands are greater and deadlines are tighter, resulting in added pressure throughout the office of the CFO. In this conversation, FloQast CFO Razzak Jallow, Co-founder and CEO Mike Whitmire, and Accounting Operations Evangelist Stefan van Duyvendijk discuss the evolution of accounting leadership over the last several years, how to effectively structure an efficient accounting organization (within a rapidly growing tech company), and how they see those expectations changing in a tumultuous economic environment.
Jul 11, 2022
50 min
The Rise of the Operational Controller: How It Happened, the Results Its Driving, and What’s To Come
On this week's episode of Blood, Sweat & Balance Sheets, FloQast Accounting Operations Evangelist Stefan van Duyvendijk guest is joined by Dante Giannini, Corporate Controller of Actian Corporation, to discuss the rise of the operational controller and what that role will look like as controllers add more value to their organizations.
Jun 10, 2022
58 min
A Chat With Stefan van Duyvendijk: Accountant, Controller, and FloQast’s Accounting Operations Evangelist
Mike is BACK, and this week, he's joined by veteran Corporate Controller and FloQast's new Accounting Operations Evangelist Stefan van Duyvendijk.On this episode, Mike and Stefan talk about Stefan's experience at Skullcandy and Kodiak Cakes, what led him to leave his controller role for FloQast, and how the accounting profession has changed significantly in the last several years
Apr 4, 2022
45 min
Talking shop with Kristin Lofgren, chief meme officer at Let's Get Fiscal, The Accounting Betch, and Big Four Confessions
Aug 24, 2021
26 min
A Walk Down Memory Lane: A major gamble, a near-death experience, and the key milestones that got FloQast to where it is today.
Mike is joined by early FloQast investor and advisor Rob Meinhardt to look back at how FloQast got to where it is today, a unicorn company in a boom LA tech community.
Aug 10, 2021
55 min
Building L.A.'s Newest Unicorn: The FloQast Funding Story
Breaking down the Series D funding that officially made FloQast's accounting software platform a $1.2B brand.
Jul 27, 2021
27 min
Trading Cards, NFTs, and Sneakers: Convincing A FloQast Board Member that Investing in Alternative Assets Can Pay Off
In this episode, Mike Whitmire, CEO & Co-Founder of FloQast, chats with Rob Meinhardt,  an entrepreneur and board member of FloQast, and Troy Patipanavat, a  product support  team member at FloQast. 
Jul 6, 2021
1 hr 9 min
Accounting Across the Pond with Excel Expert David Lyford-Smith
In this episode, Mike Whitmire, CEO & Co-Founder of FloQast, chats with , David Lyford-Smith, Technical Manager at ICAEW.
Jun 8, 2021
37 min
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