Incoming Statements
"Incoming Statements" is your guide to mastering modern accounting challenges. Whether it’s perfecting your month-end close, preparing for audits, or harnessing AI for better financial decisions, this podcast gives you the tools to streamline your processes, elevate your role, and deliver insights that matter.
Incoming Statements
Beyond the Numbers: Creating Legibility in Complex Finance Systems
In this episode of Incoming Statements, Anthony Alvernaz talks with Colin Anderson, co-founding partner of Friends & Family Capital and former Palantir Technologies CFO, about building exceptional finance teams during periods of hypergrowth.
Colin shares his journey at Palantir, where he helped scale the company from 100 to over 2,000 employees and $20 billion in valuation. He explains his philosophy on hiring mission-driven people with high "CPU" rather than specific experience, and the importance of creating data systems with "hygiene and legibility" that can answer any business question.
The episode explores how finance functions serve as a support role to create a quantitative lens for the business, helping transform blind spots into clear insights. Colin emphasizes the value of purpose-driven work and how stories backed by data create the most compelling business narratives.