Profit strategies, money management, smart CFO finance insights and business growth collide with strategy insights, tech, AI, HR, data-driven decisions, growth strategy, sustainable business and entrepreneur tips.

Episode summaryJoin Ademola Odewade—host of Diary of a CFO and global top 10 % podcaster on ListenNotes—as he grills Silicon Valley author Jeremy Shapiro on turning startups into profit machines. Discover why revenue is vanity but profit, cash flow and customer lifetime value are sanity boosters . Learn how 1 % gains across customers, average sale and frequency multiply into 33 % growth , why raising prices (done right) lifts margins , and how frameworks convert entrepreneurial hustle into scalable freedom .

Key takeaways

• MVP first, cash-flow from day one

• Beat competitors by boosting lifetime value, not ad spend

• Time-blocking and bikes: the productivity hack that wins races and ledgers

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