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Oliver Buchannon
CJ Gustafson

Tech CFO | Writer behind Mostly metrics | Miller Lite Enthusiast


How Rivian Plans for Stuff That Doesn't Exist Yet

Jun 16, 2026

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6 min read

How Rivian Plans for Stuff That Doesn't Exist Yet

Sweating the capacity you have

How Much Did the Bankers Actually Make on the SpaceX IPO?

Jun 14, 2026

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7 min read

How Much Did the Bankers Actually Make on the SpaceX IPO?

Benchmarks for Operators 6/14/26

Bending Spoons IPO: S1 Breakdown

Jun 11, 2026

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14 min read

Bending Spoons IPO: S1 Breakdown

The owner of AOL, Evernote, Vimeo, and Eventbrite goes public

Will FP&A Eat IR?

Jun 9, 2026

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10 min read

Will FP&A Eat IR?

What's the future of the IR role? And where does it sit on the org chart?

Google is raising $80 billion, and you're bearish?

Jun 7, 2026

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9 min read

Google is raising $80 billion, and you're bearish?

Benchmarks for Operators 6/7/26

How to talk about ARR for Consumption Based Businesses

Jun 4, 2026

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7 min read

How to talk about ARR for Consumption Based Businesses

Plus, hard pivots to AI, rising CAC, and what to include in Gross Margin, all in this week's CFO Mailbag!

How Fanatics Thinks About LTV to CAC Across Multiple Product Lines

Jun 2, 2026

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7 min read

How Fanatics Thinks About LTV to CAC Across Multiple Product Lines

Getting to a Single View of the Fan

NDR is Slowly Being Euthanized

May 31, 2026

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11 min read

NDR is Slowly Being Euthanized

Benchmarks for Operators 5/31/26

The Great Reshuffling

May 28, 2026

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8 min read

The Great Reshuffling

The State of Finance and Accounting Talent (May)

5 Ways Finance Can Be More Helpful to Sales

May 26, 2026

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9 min read

5 Ways Finance Can Be More Helpful to Sales

“Help is defined in the mind of the recipient.”

My Local Pizza Shop is Using AI

May 24, 2026

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9 min read

My Local Pizza Shop is Using AI

Benchmarks for Operators 5/24/26

SpaceX IPO: S1 Breakdown

May 21, 2026

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17 min read

SpaceX IPO: S1 Breakdown

The most-anticipated IPO of the decade, with a CEO comp plan tied to a colony on Mars

When Should You Start Allocating Overhead to Departments?

May 19, 2026

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8 min read

When Should You Start Allocating Overhead to Departments?

And which costs should get allocated?

Sector Refresh

May 17, 2026

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6 min read

Sector Refresh

Benchmarks for Operators 5/17/26

Download: The Q1 2026 Startup Benchmarks

May 14, 2026

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1 min read

Download: The Q1 2026 Startup Benchmarks

CAC is up, NDR is down.

Cerebras IPO: S1 Breakdown

May 12, 2026

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19 min read

Cerebras IPO: S1 Breakdown

Bigger is certainly bigger

The Thing About More Tokens

May 10, 2026

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12 min read

The Thing About More Tokens

Benchmarks for Operators 5/10/26

Private Company Benchmarks: Give to Get a Dope Mostly Metrics Hat

May 7, 2026

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1 min read

Private Company Benchmarks: Give to Get a Dope Mostly Metrics Hat

Contribute to the Q1 Private Company Benchmarks Report

How Samsara Matured it's Forecasting from Private to Public

May 5, 2026

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7 min read

How Samsara Matured it's Forecasting from Private to Public

A tactical lesson in capital allocation, budgeting, and reforecasting

Is it Cake? (Revenue Edition)

May 3, 2026

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10 min read

Is it Cake? (Revenue Edition)

Benchmarks for Operators 5/3/26

When should you switch from cash to accrual accounting?

Apr 30, 2026

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17 min read

When should you switch from cash to accrual accounting?

Plus, ERP implementation disasters, and running your first annual planning process... all in this week's CFO mailbag!

What a Disney Vacation Taught me About Pricing and Packaging

Apr 28, 2026

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8 min read

What a Disney Vacation Taught me About Pricing and Packaging

From Lightning Lanes to Magic Bands to Resident Pricing

Putting the Stock Based Comp Debate into Context for Private Companies

Apr 26, 2026

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9 min read

Putting the Stock Based Comp Debate into Context for Private Companies

Benchmarks for Operators 4/26/26

It's Time for the Q1 Private Company Benchmarks

Apr 23, 2026

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1 min read

It's Time for the Q1 Private Company Benchmarks

The best source for private company metrics

The Growing Importance of Order to Cash in the Age of AI

Apr 21, 2026

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9 min read

The Growing Importance of Order to Cash in the Age of AI

How to turn order to cash into a growth engine

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