Peter Reinhardt

CEO at Charm Industrial, prev. CEO at Segment, ex-MIT Aerospace Engineering. I write about learnings from building the company, product development, and physics or technology that piques my interest.

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Startup Finance for Founders – Part I, Accounting (2016)

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When we started Segment , we knew nothing about business finance. My background was in aerospace engineering, and my co-founders came from computer science and design. Beyond the hilariously overcomplicated spreadsheet we used to manage grocery bills as roommates, we really had no experience in finance when we started…