Do you sweat when the projector clicks on and a massive spreadsheet fills the screen? You aren’t alone. “Financial imposter syndrome” plagues even the most brilliant marketing, sales, and product leaders. But what if finance wasn’t actually about complex math, but rather storytelling? In today’s briefing, we explore Mihir Desai’s “How Finance Works” to reveal why profit is just an opinion, why cash is a hard fact, and how companies like Amazon use working capital as a superpower to fund explosive growth.

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