Financial engineering is a core moat for today's hottest startup archetypes
sarahdrinkwater · x · 2026-10-12
The author argues that a core part of the moat for today's two trendiest startup archetypes — the high-velocity ARR-driven data marketplace and the unknowable-mega-TAM deep tech company — is smart financial engineering: capital craftsmanship deployed at the right time and on the right timelines. A good moment to be a strong CFO, she concludes.
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