Figma’s CFO on going public, AI, and working alongside Dylan Field | Praveer Melwani
In this latest episode of Executive Function, Brett sits down with Praveer Melwani, CFO at Figma. Praveer joined Figma in 2017 as the company's first business operations and finance hire—when the team was around 30 people and not yet charging for the product—and stepped into the
Beginnings matter: The moms behind startup founders
Most stories about how great companies get built start with the idea. But to really understand how a founder is made, you have to go back to the beginning: with mom. For Mother's Day, we asked founders to call their moms to share a thank you they’ve
AI killed the product roadmap | Diya Jolly (CPO & CTO of Xero)
In the latest episode of Executive Function, Brett is joined by Diya Jolly, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Xero. Before Xero, Diya was CPT at Okta and led YouTube's advertising monetization products at Google. In this conversation, she unpacks her three-bucket framework for delegating decisions, why the
