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Today's guest is Mark Dzialga, Founder and Managing Partner of Brighton Park Capital, a Greenwich-based growth equity firm that has scaled to nearly $4 billion in AUM since its founding in 2019. Brighton Park invests in entrepreneur-led, growth-stage software, healthcare, and tech-enabled services companies, with a portfolio that includes Darktrace, Coralogix, HITRUST, Canary Technologies, Orca AI, and Orbital Witness.

Before founding BPC, Mark spent over 20 years at General Atlantic, where he chaired the Investment Committee from 2007 through 2017 and helped expand GA's footprint across Europe, Latin America, India, and Asia. He played a pivotal role in the growth and dominance of General Atlantic. Earlier in his career, Mark was co-head of the Technology M&A Group at Goldman Sachs.

In today's conversation, we'll dive into why Mark left one of the most respected growth investing platforms in the world to build his own, how he's navigating the so-called "SaaS apocalypse" and the AI revolution, what revenue durability really means today, the question of will AI make new jobs, how to adapt and embrace AI in white collared jobs, how Brighton Park wins deals in a crowded growth equity landscape, and his advice for the next generation of investors trying to break into the industry.

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Today's guest is Matt Moore, Co-Founder and CTO of Chainguard — the software supply chain security company on a mission to make the open-source ecosystem safe for enterprises everywhere.

Matt's background spans some of the most consequential corners of the cloud-native world. Before co-founding Chainguard, he was a core contributor to the open-source ecosystem and played a pivotal role at Google, where he helped shape the Kubernetes and supply chain security landscape that underpins much of modern software infrastructure today.

In today's conversation, we'll dive into Matt's journey from open-source engineering to founding a company, how Chainguard is tackling one of the most critical — and often overlooked — challenges in enterprise software, the philosophy behind building security into the foundation rather than bolting it on, what it takes to turn deep technical expertise into a venture-backed company, and his vision for the future of software supply chain security in an AI-first world.

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Welcome back to the FinanZe Podcast, episode 25.

Today’s guest is Marty Vanderploeg, Co-Founder and former CEO of Workiva — the cloud platform that fundamentally transformed how organizations manage, connect, and report critical data. Today, Workiva serves over more than 80% of the Fortune 1000.

Marty’s journey into software and entrepreneurship is anything but conventional. He began his career as a professor at Iowa State University before making the leap into building companies, founding Engineering Animation Inc., a pioneer in visualization software whose technology played a role in some of the most complex and high-profile events in modern history.

He later co-founded Workiva, scaling it into a category-defining SaaS platform at the intersection of financial reporting, compliance, and enterprise data management.

In today’s conversation, we’ll dive into Marty’s transition from academia to entrepreneurship, the story of EAI, the founding and scaling of Workiva, establishing a positive company culture, the lessons from building multiple companies, and what it takes to create, the future of software companies in today’s AI first world, and advice to young people on building enduring companies

Let’s get into it.

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