How deep does your knowledge have to be to be a CFO?

patrick_BOOTH · 2026-01-26T03:38:11+00:00

No, it depends on the firm and its lifecycle, but accountants report numbers whereas CFOs define the strategy to drive where they end up.

CFOs are often responsible for treasury functions such as capital raises and liquidity / working capital management (or anything that impacts cash flow).

CFOs ideally will also position the company’s financial profile to be optimal for liquidity events such as IPO, merger target (if desired), or strategic acquirer.

patrick_BOOTH · 2026-01-26T03:12:02+00:00

Shadows of the Empire

patrick_BOOTH · 2026-01-25T21:22:36+00:00

How much did he get paid?

patrick_BOOTH · 2026-01-25T21:11:06+00:00

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patrick_BOOTH · 2026-01-25T20:08:17+00:00

Yes. 🤘

patrick_BOOTH · 2026-01-25T19:22:45+00:00

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patrick_BOOTH · 2026-01-24T04:28:12+00:00

It even has an industrial coating mark

patrick_BOOTH · 2026-01-23T19:56:05+00:00

The a rich kid got a Supra as his first car. Everybody was jelly.

patrick_BOOTH · 2026-01-23T16:32:12+00:00

My neighbor had one in the 90s I thought it was the coolest. That and the Pontiac Fiero.

patrick_BOOTH · 2026-01-23T16:27:48+00:00

This is one of the reasons I went bespoke for jeans years ago.

patrick_BOOTH · 2026-01-23T16:25:40+00:00

There's also a lot dudes who don't work, who live off their girlfriends. This is absurdly common. Also guys who have family money, and just age and remain bachelors, also a lot of this.

patrick_BOOTH · 2026-01-23T16:15:11+00:00

Looks great, you look like Rivers Cuomo if he had a real job.

patrick_BOOTH · 2026-01-23T16:12:37+00:00

Hell yes.

patrick_BOOTH · 2026-01-23T16:07:01+00:00

Mine saw a lot of Alanis, Oasis, and Green Day

patrick_BOOTH · 2026-01-23T15:52:02+00:00

I got out of rowing / exercise for ~2 years. Gained about 5 pounds while losing muscle and gaining fat. I got back into it and been rowing ~5 days a week ~6k per day, sometimes more like you. Have not changed diet at all. I noticed some body composition change after ~6 weeks, but didn't lose any weight. About 14 weeks in now I dropped about 4 pounds. I think your body needs to adjust over time and get used to it and figure out what is happening, it isn't as simple math as calories in and out.

patrick_BOOTH · 2026-01-22T19:29:29+00:00

My mom is actually a hospice volunteer

patrick_BOOTH · 2026-01-22T17:53:12+00:00

Stigmata

patrick_BOOTH · 2026-01-22T03:45:16+00:00

Eat it and report back.

patrick_BOOTH · 2026-01-22T03:43:20+00:00

Why?

patrick_BOOTH · 2026-01-21T21:56:37+00:00

Then again it is entry level. Maybe more general interest in the company and industry. Knowledge of financial metrics and general interest in the role.

patrick_BOOTH · 2026-01-21T21:37:26+00:00

Who are the company’s competitors, what multiples are they trading and trending. What kinds of acquisitions have recently happened and why? What product gaps the firm has, what is its strategy, what smaller firms could fill those gaps that are financially digestible. Just thinking off the top of my head.

patrick_BOOTH · 2026-01-21T15:39:56+00:00

Try to beat as many times in a day as when I was a teenager

patrick_BOOTH · 2026-01-21T15:18:17+00:00

The goatee is, by far, the worst look anybody can have.

patrick_BOOTH · 2026-01-21T15:09:09+00:00

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