At some point, “nobody believed in us” becomes a strange explanation for how you treat the people who work for you. Founders love an origin story. …Read more

Let’s get the disclosure out of the way. I’m a finance guy. I’ve been a CFO. I’ve been a COO. I’ve spent decades in the back office, the part of th…Read more

Back in July I launched Ask CFJoe, an AI version of myself that answers finance questions in my voice, built from my book, my newsletters and my Lin…Read more

If you’re new here, you’re about to get a CFO who explains money with manatees and baseball. I’m Joe Hamrahi (aka CFJoe). I’m a fractional CFO and …Read more

When Everybody Has the Data In baseball, once every team had the same data, the numbers stopped being the edge. The analytics department could prod…Read more

My last Substack post went out on March 26. Six months is a long time. I’ve had spreadsheets open longer, but I’m not proud of it. So, a few c…Read more