959: A CFO Role as Broad as Space Is Wide | Mark Seidel, CFO, True Anomaly

CFO THOUGHT LEADER · Dec 13, 2023 · 37m

If Mark Seidel had told us that he had spent many of his high school evenings peering through a telescope at the stars, we would have likely believed him. However, Seidel—CFO of space security start-up True Anomaly—swiftly short circuits the familiar narrative of a space-loving youth.

Instead, he draws our attention to his early entrepreneurial endeavors on eBay (he achieved power selling status while in high school), and, as for his finance career, he tells us that he has long preferred not to narrow his lens but to widen it.

Indeed, such was the case at Goldman Sachs, where he spent 7…