FP&A

5 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Oct 31, 2024 by Parker Gilbert · across every show →

Everything said about FP&A, oldest first

Oct 31, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Gilbert: Software vendors focused heavily on FP&A while neglecting core accounting
“And my perspective was at the time was that it felt like there were a lot of people selling products for, you know, forecasting for the sort of more like forward leaning FP&A functions, but there wasn't a whole lot that was really compelling in the accounting …”
Parker Gilbert Oct 31, 2024 ▶ 4:37 This 1st-time founder raised $4M, kept the team to 5 people—& just raised a $28M Series A. | Park... · PMF Show
Jan 5, 2026 positive
Insight
Chen: FP&A is a strategic business simulation, not bean counting
“FP&A in general is in some ways a simulation of a business, and I think that's sort of not well understood, because most people think about finance as sort of bean counting, and that's like the accounting bit of finance, but the FP&A bit is strategic. It's abo…”
Siqi Chen Jan 5, 2026 ▶ 2:15 It took him 4 years to launch—then he hit $1M ARR in 30 days. | Siqi Chen, Founder of Runway · PMF Show
Feb 26, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gurfinkel: Focusing on the FP&A vertical unlocked Datarails' customer revenue
“Once we focus on the one use case or one vertical of the FP&A, that was the missing piece of creating a company and a revenue and customers and build the world data that we have today.”
Didi Gurfinkel Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 10:09 He failed for 5 years. Then hit $20M ARR with 100% outbound. | Didi Gurfinkel, Founder of Datarails · PMF Show
Feb 26, 2026 negative
Insight
Gurfinkel: CFOs with 15 years in Excel won't adopt web-based FP&A
“You are a CFO of a 200 employees company. You use Excel for 15 years to run your finance. You will never leave Excel. So all these web-based FP&A solution, FP&A web-based financial system, you will never Even think to move from Excel to the web.”
Didi Gurfinkel Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 7:02 He failed for 5 years. Then hit $20M ARR with 100% outbound. | Didi Gurfinkel, Founder of Datarails · PMF Show
Feb 26, 2026
Disclosure
Gurfinkel: Did Not Know What FP&A Was When Founding Datarails
“When we founded in the company in in in I honestly, I didn't even know what is FP&A. The solution or the concept or the technology that we developed. Well, nothing related to finance. It was related to business users that use Excel.”
Didi Gurfinkel Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 4:40 He failed for 5 years. Then hit $20M ARR with 100% outbound. | Didi Gurfinkel, Founder of Datarails · PMF Show
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