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There are No Shortcuts: 5 Hard-Won Lessons from Zenefits CEO Jay Fulcher

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“However, if the basic ingredients for growing a sustainable, high-performance business are missing, you’re setting yourself up for frustration.”. That’s exactly what got the former Zenefits leadership team into trouble. A clever business model enabled the company to be “the fastest-growing software company on the planet,” he says.

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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

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Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. Eva Pittas (Co-founder and COO at Laika) and Dicken Chaplin (CFO at Laika) discuss the value a well-versed CFO brings to their business as well as a few key lessons they’ve learned along the way. Gross Retention.