Evan Cummack, CEO @ Fin
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"I joined Fin in December 2020 as CEO. Fin is a venture-funded startup software company, and it's always an interesting thing to come into an early-stage company as the CEO and non-founder. Before this, I was working as a general manager at a company called Twilio. I was at Twilio for about 10 years from right around the series B financing through the IPO. I had the pleasure and privilege of going through that whole process and then far beyond IPO; Twilio is now a very highly valued company. That was an amazing ride—I sometimes refer to it as “getting my PhD in SaaS.” I learned an amazing amount and the team there was incredible. Before joining Twilio, I grew up in a small town in New Zealand. Not exactly a tech hub, although there's some really great engineers and things that are coming out of there now, but when I was growing up, I had fairly limited access to technology expertise. I always had a very strong and unique obsession with software. There's a lot of people who grow up writing code and loving computers and software, but I was really obsessed with the software industry. I was obsessed with the competitiveness and with the idea that businesses could grow so quickly. The industry has such an egalitarian nature—for example, at a company like Facebook, if you have a good idea, all of a sudden you can do so many unprecedented things in just a few years on a global scale. So after I graduated in New Zealand, I came out to Silicon Valley and very quickly started at Twilio"
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