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The Ledger That Refused to Forget
Quanta’s cleverest idea is also its least glamorous: before an AI can explain the books, somebody has to make the books worth explaining.
Causal Took the Spreadsheet Apart and Kept the Good Bits
Most finance software asks you to love the spreadsheet or leave it. Causal chose the more interesting option: keep the grid, retire the cell-address archaeology, and let the whole company touch the forecast without breaking it.
Chargebee Wants to Turn Billing From Back-Office Chore Into a Pricing Lab
The Chennai-born software company spent years making recurring invoices less painful. Now it is betting that the hardest part of the AI economy will not be building products - it will be deciding how, when and what to charge.
Puneet Mittal’s Quiet Bet: The Spreadsheet Era of Partnerships Is Ending
After Capital One, Wall Street and ThoughtSpot, Puneet Mittal brought a finance operator’s eye to WorkSpan - and to the messy arithmetic of companies trying to sell together.
The Godfather of Revenue Recognition Is Not Done Yet
He built the first revenue recognition software in 2009, sold it to Zuora, then walked away to do it again - properly this time. A story about second acts in an unglamorous corner of accounting.
Lawrence Herman
Lawrence Herman is the Chief Financial Officer and AI Strategy Leader at Cents, the all-in-one operating system for laundromats and dry cleaners. A payments and fintech finance veteran, he has steered the books at Dwolla, Accrete, and Paxful, and logged earlier stretches at Mastercard, American Express, Dataminr, EY, Citi, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs. Harvard-trained in economics, he is known for calm during industry cycles, a preacher's zeal for financial literacy, and a habit of walking into every meeting with three discussion points and three asks.