Building a Two-Sided Marketplace: The Paro Story with Michael Burdick
‘I think we, as humans, learn the most from our failures and things that we don’t succeed in versus the things we do succeed in,’ says Burdick.
‘I think we, as humans, learn the most from our failures and things that we don’t succeed in versus the things we do succeed in,’ says Burdick.
‘I’m a firm believer that I work for my employees, not the other way around. In a perfect world, my job is simply to stay ahead of them and remove the obstacles they point out.’
‘We don’t have shareholders, but we are a public charity,’ says Denise Marks, CFO of the CareQuest Institute for Oral Health. “We have to be good stewards of our capital.”
‘The one thing that I wish I’d learned earlier was the idea of selling ideas,’ says Athwal. ‘It’s not innate to most CFOs or finance people.’
The future belongs to CFOs who can open doors to new possibilities while maintaining the financial discipline that sustains organizational health.
Half of the world’s population lacks access to the financial services and credit they need. Fintech Tala is trying to change that.