Lauren Pearl is a CFO advisor, educator, and three-time founder who believes finance is the most under-taught skill in entrepreneurship—and she's spent her career fixing that. A former software developer, she has a particular knack for working with engineer founders and translating finance into a language they can actually use. Through her firm, Lauren Pearl Consulting, she has helped more than 300 growing companies build the financial foundations to scale. Currently, she serves as Fractional Strategic CFO at North Pole Security, where her technical background informs her growing body of work on AI security for finance leaders, and teaches Financial Modeling at NYU Stern's Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship. Lauren also writes the Daily CFO Newsletter, co-hosts “The Growth-Minded CFO” podcast, co-founded the research-driven leadership advisory practice Pearl & Elmore, and partners with brands like NetSuite, Rillet, Routable, Float, Zanda and the Chief Executive Group to educate CFOs on the tech landscape. Her mission on this show is to challenge the stereotype of the risk-averse CFO and surface how the best finance leaders actually drive growth. You can find her on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/laurenepearl.
