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An Operationally-Focused CFO’s Guide to Scaling From SMB to Enterprise: Lessons From ServiceNow

The key points from the transcript are: 1. The speaker discusses how they conducted a survey of their sales team at a previous company, ServiceNow, and found that the salespeople were not prioritizing prospecting and opportunity discovery. This led the speaker to realize that the salespeople needed to take more ownership of identifying expansion opportunities with existing customers. 2. The speaker talks about their experience transitioning companies from a small/mid-market focus to an enterprise focus. This requires changes to the sales process, deal structure, pricing models, and overall go-to-market strategy. 3. A major part of this transition is aligning the sales team's incentives and behaviors to drive long-term customer success, rather than just short-term deal closure. This includes changes to compensation plans and putting more responsibility on salespeople for renewals and expansions. 4. The speaker emphasizes the importance of transparency in pricing and contract structures, using examples from their time at Lacework where they moved to a usage-based pricing model tied to cloud resource consumption. 5. The speaker shares stories of navigating complex reporting structures, such as reporting to both the CFO and CRO at ServiceNow, and how this allowed them to gain a broad operational perspective. 6. Overall, the discussion highlights the speaker's focus on being a highly operationally-minded CFO, with deep involvement in sales, pricing, and go-to-market strategy, rather than just traditional accounting and finance responsibilities.