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EP 07·Finance·29m

Inside Commercialization Finance

Krishna Vijayanathan — SVP, Commercialization Finance

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What we actually thought about this one

This was the episode where we learned that finance has about fifteen different jobs hiding inside the word finance. Krishna explained commercialization finance as the bridge between the people making a product and the people deciding whether it's worth making, and once he said it that way it clicked. He was also refreshingly honest that a lot of his early career was figuring out what he didn't want to do. We hear so much pressure to pick a lane at seventeen, and here's someone senior saying he found his lane by eliminating options one at a time. That took some pressure off all three of us.

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