How This CFO Sold LoveFilm to Amazon

Jim Buckle has spent 25 years building a CFO career that defies the obvious path. He started at KPMG, moved to the BBC, then Dell, ran a startup that collapsed in six months, turned around Property Finder, and eventually sold LoveFilm to Amazon before scaling Gusto from under £100 million to over £300 million in two years during Covid.In this episode, Jim breaks down the real difference between PE and VC ownership structures, and which type of CFO thrives in each. He shares what the Amazon deal taught him about unintended cap table consequences, why a point-in-time forecast is useless in a perma-crisis world, and how he now runs finance for a 300M revenue business four days a week.If you are an aspiring CFO working out your own path, or a finance leader navigating a shift in ownership structure, this is a direct and honest conversation worth your time.Find Chat CFO here:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4lagVbEmRBUvJzF6OkFy1rApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/chat-cfo/id1741011776YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@stoixChatCFOLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stoix/?originalSubdomain=uk