What's been your journey to the point that you're at now? How did you become the MD and CFO of Everphone? How did that happen?

So I started my career actually out of not knowing what I wanted to do at McKinsey in the finance industry.

And this was in March 2008.

So in September disaster, Lehman Brothers financial crisis stuck.

And that is also why I didn't stay with the firm for a very, very long time.

I made my exit to a very small company that was founded under the roof of one of the German federal banks.

And this was a small automotive fleet leasing company.

You know, what do you think You know, where do you think we're going to be in 5, 10 years? And is it a better place?

Why finance help companies grow and move faster?

So for the general why, because we are the only function that sees the entire company in one view.

We have a split on accounting, on controlling.

We see every product line, every cost center, every customer cohort, every customer profitability, sourcing conditions, and the like.

And this perspective can be incredibly powerful when it's used to enable decisions to be made better and faster.

Here's an example.

When Everphone was founded, our sales team signed a client with roughly 10K devices and Only when the contract was signed, they found out that it didn't have the equity to buy all those devices.

What changed the most after making those investments both for employees and customers?