David Eckstein
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And a lot of those hours are on my couch or in my bed or...
on my own terms.
And it's very different than when I was a banker at Barclays, wearing a suit and tie, sitting at an office till 8, 9, 10 PM at night, typing away on a keyboard.
And so I actually find it incredibly fulfilling because I dictate when those hours occur and the timeline of when the work gets done.
So it's a very enjoyable 996 to me.
The days are long, but the decades are short.
I don't think about the days.
The weeks fly by.
But yes, the days are incredibly long.
There are many days that I'm at the office till 10 o'clock at night.
And I have three amazing kids and an amazing, amazing wife.
And they're all supporting me.
And they love what we do and they love the company.
And, you know, Max, my amazing CEO, will often write emails to my wife and I'll say, you know, thank you so much, Ellen, for lending David to me on this trip to California.
You know, we did an amazing job doing X, Y, and Z. And that's awesome.
The fact that my CEO and my wife are emailing together and it's a great partnership.
We like to call it CFGO because the goal is to remove friction.
The goal is to help quantify the qualitative and solve problems.
It is not purely an FP&A role.
It is not a finance, a budgeting role.