Cameron Hayes
The CFO SKILL Stack (.md)
READ TIME: 10 MINUTESMost CFOs are running an open loop.You walk into the board meeting. You answer the…
Roundup #88: Is it time to panic yet?
Photo by Solving Healthcare on UnsplashThis week’s roundup has a lot of AI in it. Fortunately or unfortunately,…
SAFE Note Dilution: The Math Founders Skip Until It’s Too Late
A founder signs three SAFEs over eighteen months, each one a two-page document and a wire that arrives…
CFOs can use Claude Skills to build reports and board decks in 5 minutes
What Are Claude Skills? When you want an AI to do something specific, say, build a management report…
150 Fundraising Advisors Who Only Get Paid If You Close
If you have raised before, you have probably heard the pitch: an advisor who charges $5K a month…
How to build your corporate memory as a CFO with Claude and Notion (live recording)
The recording from the AI Masterclass is now available to watch for all paid members.ScreenshotPaid Members can access…
The anti-American Right
Hook ‘em, Horns.After days of thinking about the possibility that AI might kill all of humanity, it’s almost…
1,503 US Early-Stage Investors, Mapped: Pre-Seed to Series A
Founders talk about the Series A crunch as a feeling. It’s arithmetic.I mapped 1,503 US-headquartered early-stage investors for…
The AI CEOs Asked for a Brake. Trump Said No. Here Is How to Plan Anyway.
Three people with every commercial reason to accelerate spent last week asking for a brake. Amodei, Altman and…
Two missing pieces in the AI safety discussion
This was the week that AI safety hit the big time. A 27-year-old AI researcher named Jacob Coxon…
YC Summer 2026 Batch⚡, 40 AI Tools for Founders🛠️, Europe’s Race to $1 Trillion💰
Another week, another pulse check on Tech.From top insights and reports to new funds, VC jobs, resources, and…
OpenAI’s CFO uses ChatGPT-6 at work. I rebuilt Sarah Friar’s morning routine for every CFO
Sarah Friar is up before 5:30 a.m.She said so herself this week, in a post about how she…
Get the Middle East out of my politics!
The other day I saw a Harvard Harris poll on the favorability of various political figures in the…
Travis Kalanick Says Excellence Is the Capacity to Take Pain. Here Are His 10 Rules for Building Through It.
Travis Kalanick opens with an equation rather than a strategy.“The derivative of problem solving must always be greater…
The AI-Ready CFO (live recording)
The recording from the latest live AI Masterclass is now ready to watch for all Paid Members.And Insider…