Neil Miller

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Neil Miller

Partner Emeritus at Tech CXO

Today in the Sky Lounge, we are joined by Neal Miller, partner emeritus at TechCXO, who figured out how to work with 70 companies over 19 years without ever getting bored. His secret: Groundhog Day with a different cast every few months. Neal's career took an unconventional path. Starting as a KPMG auditor on American Software's 1983 IPO (when you could go public with $8 million in revenue), he got bored and moved into sales engineering. Six years selling enterprise software to textile mills led to an unexpected call from the CEO offering him the CFO role. The logic: investor relations is basically sales, and Neal could sell. That unconventional trajectory—auditor to sales to CFO—created the broader perspective that makes fractional executives deadly effective at exactly the moment startups need them but can't afford them full-time.

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Episodes with Neil Miller

Ep 39—Neal Miller-Decades of Financial Strategy Across 70 Companies and Still Going

Ep 39—Neal Miller-Decades of Financial Strategy Across 70 Companies and Still Going

Neil Miller, a partner emeritus at Tech CXO with 19 years at the firm, shares his journey from public accounting through CFO roles at multiple public companies to fractional executive work. He discusses his involvement with 70+ companies including Cloud Sherpas and Boomtown, offering insights on fundraising challenges, the fractional executive model's value during economic uncertainty, and how AI is compressing business cycles while changing capital requirements.

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