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THU 4 JUN
Today's debate

OnlyCFO and The FP&A Guy disagree on Finance Data & Analytics.

Dashboards should select 3-5 top metrics per question rather than attempting to display all possible metrics
in Building Dashboards That Matter
The ability to get all performance metrics in one dashboard for decision-making is a major catalyst driving CFO role evolution
in The state of the CFOtech stack

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Benchmark ranges.

CAC PAYBACK · BY ARR BAND · Q1 2026
MONTHS TO RECOVER CAC → 0 8 16 24 32 40 <$5M ARR — illustrative range 10–25 months, median 16 <$5M ARR 10 16 25 $5M–$50M ARR — median 32 months (live Q1 2026 benchmark). Range whiskers illustrative. $5M–$50M ARR 21 32 mo 40 ◆ YOU ARE HERE · TODAY'S # $50M–$100M ARR — illustrative range 19–38 months, median 28 $50M–$100M ARR 19 28 38 $100M+ ARR — illustrative range 16–34 months, median 24 $100M+ ARR 16 24 34
Low–High range Band median Your band Today's # · 32 mo

ILLUSTRATIVE RANGES · ANCHORED ON THE 32-MO Q1 BENCHMARK · WIRE TO benchmarks TABLE

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Authority landscape.

Authority × Output · 60 Practitioners
0 100 200 0 25 50 75 100 ← emerging  ·  authoritative → Authority score → Article count → Kyle Poyar — score 31, 62 articles a16z — score 18, 17 articles First Round — score 11, 28 articles ICONIQ — score 10, 60 articles Ben Williams — score 10, 2 articles Battery Ventures — score 9, 5 articles Angela Strange — score 8, 1 article Johnny CCC — score 8, 1 article Olga Berezovsky — score 8, 1 article Turner Novak — score 8, 1 article Melissa Kwan — score 8, 1 article Kyle Poyar, Dani Grant — score 8, 1 article Kyle Poyar, Brendan Short — score 8, 1 article James Evans — score 8, 1 article Kyle Poyar with Esben Friis-Jensen — score 8, 1 article Kyle Poyar with Tamara Ceman — score 8, 1 article Kyle Poyar with Stefan Bader — score 8, 1 article Rob Litterst — score 8, 1 article Torsten Walbaum — score 8, 1 article Jack Kalled — score 8, 1 article Denis Pombriant — score 8, 1 article KeyBanc — score 7, 4 articles The FP&A Guy — score 7, 1 article Daniel Parris — score 7, 1 article Windsor Drake — score 7, 1 article Samuel Levinson — score 7, 1 article Founders Forum Group & Harmonic Finance — score 7, 1 article Alex Shartsis — score 7, 1 article Kellblog — score 7, 1 article Kira Klaas — score 7, 1 article Bessemer — score 6, 4 articles Lauren Thibodeau, SaaSCan — score 5, 1 article Jason Hadley — score 2, 1 article SaaStr — score 0, 50 articles Luc Hancock — score 0, 35 articles High Alpha — score 0, 31 articles Insight Partners — score 0, 28 articles Dominique Farrar — score 0, 22 articles Faustine Rohr-Lacoste — score 0, 22 articles Ryan Hinkle — score 0, 12 articles Julie Qin — score 0, 9 articles Benjamin Romberg — score 0, 9 articles Gary Survis — score 0, 7 articles Ana Aguirre — score 0, 6 articles Patrick Whatman — score 0, 5 articles Hilary Gosher — score 0, 4 articles Nick Sinai — score 0, 4 articles Emmet B. Keeffe III — score 0, 4 articles Ben — score 0, 4 articles Alejandra Buentello — score 0, 4 articles Elizabeth Dulcich — score 0, 4 articles Lonne Jaffe — score 0, 3 articles Byron Lichtenstein — score 0, 3 articles Travis Kassay — score 0, 3 articles Maddy Cutler — score 0, 3 articles Dave Kellogg — score 100, 207 articles 1 Dave Kellogg 100 · 207 Tomasz Tunguz — score 60, 250 articles Tomasz Tunguz 60 · 250 Aswath Damodaran — score 57, 199 articles Aswath Damodaran 57 · 199 Jamin Ball — score 54, 270 articles Jamin Ball 54 · 270 OnlyCFO — score 52, 241 articles OnlyCFO 52 · 241
#1 by authority Practitioner Score > 70 = authoritative