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Stephanie Dominy's avatar

This is such a great read CJ. I'm going to do a similar one for Building Legal Teams! You've inspired me!

CJ Gustafson's avatar

You really should write about the evolution of legal teams. Many companies in hyper growth mode would benefit

Sid Jain's avatar

Congratulations CJ!

Love your content.

Sharan Birak's avatar

First of all, CONGRATS!!! You are going to absolutely crush it, and I look forward to the Dad jokes and memes it will inspire you to include in this newsletter.

Second, everything in this blog was insightful and fantastic…and then you ended it with a Vin Diesel quote. Why are you like this? Who hurt you? 😜

CJ Gustafson's avatar

Thanks so much. And Fast and Furious has been a major part of my life.

Sharan Birak's avatar

Um, I have so many questions, but really only 1 ask - will you please write a blog explaining your relationship with Fast and the Furious…I’m waiting with bated breathe 🍿

Conor Mac's avatar

Big congrats!

CJ Gustafson's avatar

Thanks Conor , appreciate the ongoing support

Samir's avatar

Awesome to finally see the full lifecycle of finance function development here including headcount growth. Too often, finance teams are starved for headcount because they're far more reasonable than other functions in requesting it in the first place!

CJ Gustafson's avatar

Ha that's so spot on. Being too reasonable results in less headcount for most finance teams. As someone once said "we are cursed, because we see the numbers". It's a burden we must carry.

Compounder Mechanics's avatar

how do you define the boulders, pebbles and mountains

CJ Gustafson's avatar

What do you need to keep the lights on

What advances the business and function maturity wise

What would be nice to do as well

CJ Gustafson's avatar

Thanks Sid, give me a shout if there’s ever a topic you want me to cover