Anyone leave FDD for a start-up / small-business? What kind of role did you go into, how many years of experience in FDD, and what are your thoughts since you've left on how it prepared you / what would you change (if anything)?

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Have a few former colleagues that left as tenured SMs to take head of finance type roles (effectively CFO for small portcos that have yet to hire a formal CFO). By a large they seem pretty happy with the choice when I catch up with them (the ones who have had successful PE exits much more so…). Fdd sets you up well for the role - you understand what matters in board reporting for PE investors and you’ve been trained well in exec communication. If there’s a downside or challenges it’s getting up to speed on tax and dealing with the mundane bookkeeping and managing less high quality junior people on their teams vs what they were used to in B4

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