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Podcast: The Hard Part with Evan McCann
Episode: Praveer Melwani from Figma
Description: Praveer Melwani is the CFO of Figma.
Takeaways
Joining Figma as employee 25 (now at ~3000)
Scaling with Figma and moving into the CFO role
Nuances to the CFO role at Figma
Developing and learning from mentors
How the CFO role is changing especially in high-growth tech companies
Empowering and building a finance team
The importance of understanding business drivers and key metrics as someone on the finance team
How the finance team works with product and other teams, meetings, cadence and more
What makes Figma such a special company and product
Tools the Figma...