Procurement leaders should help make headcount decisions. The mistake many companies make is not involving Procurement early enough. While a request intake and orchestration tool helps with the Procurement process, a strategic decision to spend money should start with the budget, and Procurement should be involved.

This weekend I hung out with a few Waymo employees + their kids. Towards the end, one of the dads requested a test Waymo (with driver). 🚗 When the car came, the Waymo kids were genuinely surprised about the driver.

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How young is too young to start creating a budget? 𝐀𝐒𝐀𝐏 (Obviously I'm biased 😊) Financial literacy is a key indicator of success later in life While everyone doesn't need to wind up in a finance or procurement career, early exposure can help in so many ways.

Happy Sibling Day to the one and only Douglass Zhong, the best mechanical/hardware engineer who is hard at work scaling self driving vehicles 🚗 🚛 Since I've been in a "software bubble" most of my career, much of what I know about real supply chains, procurement, and physical production timelines comes from Doug.

Nearly 600 U.S.-listed companies of a total 7,359 reported material weaknesses related to personnel, typically in 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 or information technology... 𝐮𝐩 𝟒𝟎.𝟔% 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟗 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐝!! Imagine a company valuation dip because of reporting issues. How embarrassing! 🙈 Accountants are critical to a company's success, and we can all do our part by increasing visibility in our workflows and providing access to the right data.