Finance Professionals
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Gurfinkel: CIOs want to replace Excel, but finance teams insist on it
“If you speak with the CIO of the company, you speak with the business, the typically business user, they use Excel, but their dream is to get rid of Excel, right?... Finance people want to stay with Excel because it's more just a tool. This is part of their, e…”
Englander: Startup hires from finance struggle by defaulting to slide decks
“What we notice is, you know, we'll ask someone to do something and, well, they won't, but they will try and, you know, spend a day, two days putting together some sort of presentation, slide deck, and we're like, what the hell's going on? You know you know, we…”
Lasry: Finance professionals continuously raise their retirement number instead of quitting
“We all say when we make a certain amount of money, we're going to stop. Everybody's got a number in their mind, and then you get to that number, and then you raise your number.”
Hy: High-Earners Use Kids to Rationalize Ambition-Driven Overwork
“Hey, remember when you're gone, like that's all you want to leave all the other stuff you're doing. It's other things. Don't call it in the name of your kids. It's your ambition. It's your ego. It's your identity. Not bad things. That's when your mind starts p…”