Matt Putra

Founder & Managing Partner, Eightx · 1 appearance on the record.

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Matt Putra is the founder and managing partner at Eightx, a financial advisory and fractional CFO firm for consumer brands. Previously, he served as a private-equity Group CFO at New Market Funds, participating in over $500M in investment activity.

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Putra: EightX risks going out of business within years from AI

“There's a chance that in a couple of years I won't have a business. And so we're grappling with that and that's part of why we're going very, very high touch.”

Matt Putra Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 16:13 Profitability Is Not a Math Problem, It Is a Human Problem

Insight

Putra: Business profitability is a human problem, not a math problem

“I'm just finding that that profitability is not a, it's not a math problem. It's a human problem.”

Matt Putra Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 10:08 Profitability Is Not a Math Problem, It Is a Human Problem

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Putra: AI gains will drive massive public and private equity windfalls

“I think one of the thinking is that you'll see an astronomic inflation, economic value in the stock market. If you can get money in there, there's a chance you can be okay. Furthermore, if you can get money into private listings, so venture, angel, and you can…”

Matt Putra Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 25:54 Profitability Is Not a Math Problem, It Is a Human Problem

Insight

Putra: Almost All Successful Modern E-Commerce Brands Are Omnichannel

“Most of the time, at least at this point, anybody that's succeeding is typically doing CPG sales anyway. But CPG strictly would be, you know, consumer packaged goods through retail, like in-store environment, and then they would say e-com is the other side of …”

Matt Putra Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 1:04 Profitability Is Not a Math Problem, It Is a Human Problem

Insight

Putra: AI automation improves output quality rather than cutting total hours

“I wouldn't say we've saved a ton of time, or maybe we have, but we've redeployed it anyway. We're not just like working less, but I would say our outputs are better. Our understanding is better because again, like these AIs are keeping notes and helping us thi…”

Matt Putra Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 4:03 Profitability Is Not a Math Problem, It Is a Human Problem

Disclosure

EightX deploys AI agents to monitor client calls and sentiment

“So we have like a client coordinator agent who's listening to all the calls, taking notes, giving notes to our internal teams. . And also like listening for sentiment.”

Matt Putra Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 2:00 Profitability Is Not a Math Problem, It Is a Human Problem

Disclosure

Putra seeks quick startup exit to hedge against AI disruption

“I think my approach is to try to create a valuable company very quickly exit so that my family's okay. And yet still choose to believe in the utopia, even though I'm maybe buffing the downside.”

Matt Putra Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 23:03 Profitability Is Not a Math Problem, It Is a Human Problem

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Profitability Is Not a Math Problem, It Is a Human Problem	Feb 3, 2026	13m

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