Jeff Williams
speaker
368 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Jul
Jeff Williams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, that's not good for them.
And that's why their buildings are a whole lot nicer than yours.
It was something that was very eye-opening to me when I started here because all of the companies I'd worked for up to this point were companies that used debt to fund their operations.
They had equity and they had bank debt as well.
And so coming in here and not needing any of that skill was interesting to me.
And I was like, I don't even know what this is supposed to look like initially.
But then I got to realize, wait,
If you don't have to have money that the bank gives you and you just have your own money sitting in those banks, you have all the flexibility in the world about decision making.
You can do whatever you need to do.
I don't have to have an audit of my financials every year.
Whenever I was a company that had bank debt, I was required to pay $50,000 to $60,000 a year to a third party to come audit my books so that the bank could have confirmation that we're doing things the right way.
I don't have to have any of that stuff here.
Whenever people ask me for our financial statements, our audited financial statements, I'm like, all I've got is a bank statement.
I don't have a set of financial statements because none of them are audited because they don't have to be.
We do take great care to put controls in place to help manage those things, but it affects
For us, it gives us great freedom where we don't have to answer to anybody.
Only thing we have to answer to is to the strategic decisions that we want to make, how fast we want to grow, and we're not going to grow any faster than the speed of cash.
And as the CFO, I put floors on that in terms of what I'm willing to let us go down below or down to as far as our cash balances.
We have emergency fund money sitting out there that we won't go below.
And so it makes the decision making a lot easier because you don't have to think, hey, I wonder what
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