652: Exposing Gross Margin’s Hidden Levers | Jeff Nichols, CFO, UJET
In 2016, when Jeff Nichols had been a senior member of Glassdoor’s FP&A team for 2 years, he and other members of the finance team were confronting the nagging truth that the firm’s path to going public wasn’t getting any shorter.
The online job recruitment firm’s efforts to grow its profit margins had met only mild success, while its cash burn rate was inching upward.
According to Nichols, Glassdoor’s path to going public was further complicated due to the unique characteristics of its business model. Points of comparison between Glassdoor and top recruitment rivals such as LinkedIn and…
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