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17 September 2026

  • curprev 16:2216:22, 17 September 2026 LRYAnneliese talk contribs 24,500 bytes +24,500 Created page with "<br>Startups rarely die from a lack of product ambition. They die from cash. That single fact is the core of why do startups need a CFO: someone has to own the number that decides whether the company gets to keep playing. Founders are typically world-class at product, customers, and hiring, while the financial architecture underneath — burn rate, financial runway, unit economics, cap table integrity — gets assembled in fragments, late, by people learning on the job...."