Figma CFO Praveer Melwani says AI makes a financial model easy to build, so his hiring case study te...
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Figma CFO Praveer Melwani says AI makes a financial model easy to build, so his hiring case study tests whether you still did the thinking: "Right now I'm hiring for a VP of finance. And the case study part of the process for me is so, so sacred. I wanna both test for, how are you using the tools available to you... but how you actually piece those puzzle pieces together in a way that actually makes sense." "Have you really, really understood the structure that you've created?... Do you have a strong intuition on how the business is actually working using the tool that you've created? Can you effectively communicate that?" "Anyone can go and create like a model. Pick your favorite LLM. You can go and do that really, really easily. But are you using it as an effective tool that actually is enabling you to think?" "You don't wanna outsource your thinking today. I think you wanna use AI as a tool to help you and empower you. But it's really, really critical to still be that thinker." @figma Your browser does not support the video tag. 🔗 View on Twitter a16z @a16z Figma CFO Praveer Melwani used to spend his days writing hundreds of lines of SQL just to get one set of numbers everyone trusted. Now his finance team builds its own AI tools to do that work. He sees the CFO's job shifting from traffic cop to business enabler, as long as the people doing the building still own their thinking. Praveer joins a16z's Seema Amble and Ivan Makarov, authors of "You Need a New CFO," to discuss the growth-stage finance team that built 40 to 50 agents in a month or two, what breaks when every rep vibe codes their own dashboard, and how finance went from sitting out hackathons to winning them. 0:00 From traffic cop to business enabler 8:48 Hire people who understand the model 12:20 Vibe coding a target to test moats 13:15 An AI Dylan Field reviews the memos 18:01 Let AI make the messy data calls 20:00 Unused agents still build the habit 20:46 The CIO's new job: scale what works 22:36 Th