Wrecked and rebuilt: how million-dollar experiences shaped an AI-first finance team (with 1Password CFO Greg Henry)

Join host Ravi Kumar as he sits down with Greg Henry, CFO of 1Password and former CFO of Couchbase, for a masterclass in turning crisis into career-defining moments. Greg shares his journey from the Big Four to leading finance teams through IPOs, FDA shutdowns, and global pandemics, as well as fully embracing AI as a CFO.In this episode, Greg takes listeners inside:  • CFO factories (2:52)  • The FDA crisis that became a "million-dollar experience" (10:09)  • Becoming CFO is moving from the “control tower to the cockpit” (17:30)  • “I literally thought we had wrecked the company” (22:02)  • 1Password's AI hackathon: creating 21 automated agents in one day (39:35)  • Career wisdom from someone on the "16th hole" of their journey (49:31)Through 30+ years of hard-won lessons, Greg proves that the experiences you least expect often become the ones that define your entire career trajectory.