The Finpro: A Podcast: Recent Episodes
Serge Amouzou, Finpro
The Finpro: A Podcast explores organizations and features conversations with experts on issues that matter most for growth. Finpro is developing a platform to help businesses of all sizes serve their customers better with a forecasting and planning tool. Topics covered include marketing, sales, product, strategy, and finance.
Alexandria Sauls, Senior Program Manager at Google, talks about building efficient processes for finance, sales, and business operations. Alexandria was previously a program manager at PayPal, Uber, and Amazon. Listen to learn more about:
- Stakeholder partnerships
- Reporting
- Getting buy-in and customer impact
- Breaking through silos
- Collaborating and setting boundaries to up your game
- Utilizing and partnering with sales in prioritization
- Networking
- And more
Camila Kaul, Google Head of Sales Development Strategy, talks about creative thinking, sales management, and more.
Camila is also the founder of Just a Squiggle, a consulting firm dedicated to helping organizations & individuals unlock their hidden superpowers and turn their biggest problems into possibilities through the power of creative thinking.
Camila's advice to people who potentially are interested in branching out on their own:
- You have to be very clear, what is your secret sauce? Why are you doing this? What is that thing that you have that is unique, and that motivates you to do your business? And make sure that is something that you are, at your core.
- Have a plan but don't let the plan dictate so much. Be flexible with your plan, things are going to change in this path of entrepreneurship.
- Believe in yourself. Be very confident. I know that sometimes it sounds like a cliche, but your intuition and what you're trying to do will drive you more and will guide you more than any other coach in the world.
Find Camila and Just a Squigle on Instagram and LinkedIn.
From our interview with Afrina M, Product Manager at Google, we discuss being the bridge, cloud, getting buy-in, leading teams, generating new revenue, and more.
Afrina has helped companies like Bank of America generate $12 million in revenue, has won a prestigious award from Honeywell CEO for exceptional performance, and generated $45 million in revenue.
From our interview, full interview here, with Nick Larson, Former Chief Revenue Officer and Co-founder at Willow, Advisor at Alphataba, and Startup Mentor at imec.istart. We discuss Willow, the social media tool for small businesses, scaling, the importance of setting goals, and more.
Resources:
- Predictable Revenue by Aaron Ross
- A great CRM is HubSpot
- The Hard Thing About Hard Thing by Ben Horowitz
- Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell by by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle
- The Four Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
Akshay Goel is a former software developer and now product manager. Therefore, he understands how the software works from the code to the end-user. We’re all familiar with Alexa, however, to refresh you, Alexa helps us do multiple tasks ranging from setting alarms, playing music, and controlling our smart home just by the access of our voice. At Amazon, Akshay led the team behind the AI / ML model that improves the processing and recall of Alexa.
Now, Akshay is at Google where he leads the music and video playback related to YouTube and YouTube Music.
Akshay Goel is a former software developer and now product manager. Therefore, he understands how the software works from the code to the end-user. We’re all familiar with Alexa, however, to refresh you, Alexa helps us do multiple tasks ranging from setting alarms, playing music, and controlling our smart home just by the access of our voice. At Amazon, Akshay led the team behind the AI / ML model that improves the processing and recall of Alexa.
Now, Akshay is at Google where he leads the music and video playback related to YouTube and YouTube Music.
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