The Lowdown #7

👋🏾 Hi friends!

This week’s Lowdown is going to be a little shorter than normal as I’m parked up in Abu Dhabi (travelling again, I know 😂). I’m surrounded by family members so it’s a smidge difficult to delve quite as deep as I would normally into all the happenings in the world of venture.

With that said there are a couple of incredibly interesting pieces that, if you haven’t already done so, are worth digging into, so here they are:

🔮 Techo Optimism
🤖 The State of AI Report

And in this week’s episode of Nothing Ventured check out my conversation with Julio Martinez, founder of Abacum, the FP&A tool for scaling and mid cap companies.

We geek out on finance tools, looking for the universal platform for the CFO stack and discuss why neither of us think Excel or Google Sheets are going anywhere anytime soon.

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