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Devon Coombs

Devon Coombs

CPA, MBA, and Assistant Teaching Professor of Finance at Santa Clara University; former Google Cloud and Deloitte revenue accounting leader and fractional CAO/CFO.

Sep 16, 2026

32:55
Let's, let's not make sure we have a controller in the seat.
32:58
Yeah.
32:58
But at least I have a bookkeeper beforehand or something like a team, an outsource team beforehand.
33:02
But as soon as you're, I think as soon as you have a controller, that's probably the next right person to have.
33:09
Like that would be my next in the sequence is having someone who understands revenue and not looking at it just from a, I need a compliance person to make sure I'm set for my transaction, but more as like a strategic partner.
33:21
Here's someone who's looked at as the right person with this level of expertise, someone who's looked at hundreds of different businesses and tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of different revenue types of contracts.
33:33
and understands legal finance, accounting, and sales, and deals desk positioning, and sales ops.

9 MINS LATER

42:35
They want the itemized view now.

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