What role can the CFO play on the culture

side? I find that I'm going to spend 10 to 12 hours a day at work.

That's more than I'll spend sleeping and at home with my wife and kids and my dog.

So if I can't bring my best self to work and have fun while I'm at work, that's a pretty crappy life.

And I've always said when I joined Accordion, if I ever have five days in a row that I'm not happy going to work, I'll know it's time to look for another job.

11 and a half years later, maybe I've had one or two, but I feel very confident this was the best place for me to land, and I'm still thrilled to be here.

But bringing your best self to work means you can't take yourself too seriously all the time.

Get me the

What role can the CFO play on the culture side?

I find that I'm going to spend 10 to 12 hours a day at work.

That's more than I'll spend sleeping and at home with my wife and kids and my dog.

So if I can't bring my best self to work and have fun while I'm at work, that's a pretty crappy life.

And I've always said when I joined Accordion, if I ever have five days in a row that I'm not happy going to work, I'll know it's time to look for another job.

11 and a half years later, like maybe I've had one or two, but I feel very confident this was the best place for me to land.

And I'm still thrilled to be here.

Get me the

... for the s- small things that needed to be done, or you had, like, completely made that mental shift that you were like, "Well, this has to get done, so I'm gonna do it, and then I can build it up the way I want it"?

It wasn't about the horsepower, actually.

It was like I realized that I needed to get the rest of the team to understand the value of finance within the organization.

Like, we had all this data.

The systems were okay, but it wasn't like the entire team was buying into how do we leverage the data to actually drive decisions at Accordion.

Um, and that was, like, what I started with out of the gate, right? It was less, you know...

Yes, I was doing journal entries, and it was the l- the least exciting part of the job, but I started really looking at the data and presenting it in a different way, kinda like I would for, like, a sell-side engagement for any one of our clients, like really thinking about how do we get this company to grow and scale so that eventually we could have an exit if we wanted to.

Yeah.