WEBINAR ON DEMAND
Duration: 1 hour

Get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the actual board deck from Rippling's first board meeting when they were a sub-$5M ARR startup, revealing the foundational metrics and processes that helped build a $13.5B company.

Join Adil Syed, former CFO of Rippling who scaled the finance function from 100 to 2,000+ employees through Series A-D rounds and previously worked at Goldman Sachs, Snapchat, and Redpoint Ventures. This session is perfect for founders, CFOs, and finance leaders building board reporting frameworks or preparing for investor meetings.

What You'll Learn:

• Board presentation strategy - Why metrics-heavy decks drive better strategic discussions than function-by-function updates
• Metrics that matter - 15+ KPIs Rippling tracked from day one, including custom metrics like "cash-on-cash payback for sales"
• Financial planning frameworks - The "hourglass of cash" runway model and cohort analysis for forecasting Net Dollar Retention
• Platform business insights - How to track revenue and growth across 20+ product SKUs from the beginning

SPEAKERS

Adil Syed
Prev. CFO, Now SVP, GM of Startups
Rippling
 

Matthew Huo
​Content Marketing
Rippling Spend