Metrics that matter in uncertain markets.

The advantages of being a data-driven company are generally well understood, but making that a reality is difficult. It begins by understanding your business model and the key metrics to assess progress and drive decision-making. In this What I Wish I Knew session, Airbase CFO, Aneal Vallurupalli, will speak with venture investor, Tomasz Tunguz, Managing Director at Redpoint, about company metrics, the insights they can provide, and the pitfalls to avoid. We hope you’ll join us for this informative discussion on how to identify leading and lagging metrics, risks to be aware of, and how to adjust your focus based on the business environment and your company’s goals.

About the speakers.

Tomasz Tunguz

Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures

Tomasz Tunguz is a Managing Director at Redpoint. He is an active blogger at tomtunguz.com and is co-author of Winning with Data, which explores the cultural changes big data brings to business, and shows you how to adapt your organization to leverage data to maximum effect. Before joining Redpoint, Tomasz was the product manager for Google’s AdSense social-media products and AdSense internationalization.

Aneal Vallurupalli

CFO at Airbase

Aneal Vallurupalli is the Chief Financial Officer at Airbase. His background includes early- to late-stage corporate finance, corporate development, operations, and tech M&A. Most recently, Aneal was the Vice President of Finance & Operations at Mattermost, where he still serves as an advisor. At Mattermost, Aneal grew the company’s enterprise value, with a 4x increase in revenue growth and by leading the $50M Series B. He also managed the company’s fully distributed global growth by doubling the number of countries it operates in, and growing employee count by 5x. Prior to that, he was the Head of Strategic Finance at Mapbox, where he led the company’s $164M Series C round of funding from SoftBank, and was the founding member of the Corporate Development team at Guidewire (NYSE:GWRE), helping it to grow from a $800M private company to a $7B public company. His career began in technology investment banking at Union Square Advisors, completing a range of public and private M&A transactions, including buy-side, sell-side, corporate divestitures, and restructurings.