Episode Details

If your revenue is climbing but your bank account feels tighter every month, the problem usually isn’t hustle, it’s math you can’t see yet. From the Board of Advisors Q2 Summit near Dallas, I sit down with Cruz Gamboa to talk about the one skill that instantly exposes what’s real in a business: understanding the numbers in context, not just staring at reports.

We get into the uncomfortable truth behind “sales cure all.” Selling more can actually make a cash crunch worse when working capital gets out of control. Cruz breaks down how accounts receivable, accounts payable, and inventory quietly drain cash even when the P&L looks fine, and why one bad ops month or a runaway ad spend can tip a fast-growing company into desperation. Then we zoom in on unit economics and the metrics that matter to owners and investors alike: CAC, LTV, AOV, ROAS, and the efficiency gains that show up when the equation works at scale.

We also draw a hard line between growth and scaling. Growth is revenue up. Scaling is revenue up while profit expands faster, supported by better fundamentals, clearer accountability, and a financial model you can actually run the business from. Finally, we tackle AI in finance: where automation helps, why asking the right questions still wins, and why the best CFOs become more powerful when AI handles the busywork and humans deliver judgment, strategy, and translation.

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