Trevor McKendrick’s Post

Being on an FP&A team a pain we felt was the need to strategize with our executive team but constantly being bogged down in manual processes that made it slow to give answers. Especially around the most expense resource - headcount. If you're wasting time reconciling your HR system with the financial model, have Gsheets where hiring plans live, slacking your finance teams for questions around your headcount... we are fixing this and more. Excited to announce our fundraise led by Penny Jar Capital with participation from Peak Capital Partners, Frazier Group, Convoi Ventures, Meridian Ventures and various other investors. What was clear from our first conversation with Bryant Barr was that he knew this problem intimately. Having faced this exact issue at Nike, we knew he could provide unique insight into the problem and how to build a powerful solution.

🇺🇸 I AM NOW AN AMERICAN CITIZEN! 🇺🇸 As of Tuesday, July 18th, I am a citizen of the United States of America. I imagine very few Americans give much thought to their citizenship. For most it’s a given, and for some, it might be an afterthought. I don’t think I would have thought so much about it if it hadn’t been such a journey to be one of the privileged few who call this country home. The journey has been a long one - almost half of my life. I arrived in the USA on December 28th, 2010. I stepped off the plane naively not realizing I knew no one in the country. I was just another kid riding on a temporary visa. I hadn’t even reached the status of alien yet. That came two years later in 2012 when I first applied for a green card. I’ve lived here 11 years as an alien - a third of my life. Why America, though? This land of opportunity does not exist anywhere else. It is my belief that God created this land as the land of opportunity and entrepreneurship – and I am grateful to God for it. President Lincoln said, “My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.” His dream is fulfilled in me. And not just me, but in all the people who I’ve leaned on and learned from to make it here. Only in the American Experiment, a middle-class Brazilian kid could show up and in a little over ten years deploy over nine-figures and indirectly help create thousands of jobs. What I have built thus far, I built from values and opportunities that are uniquely American. Along the way I’ve learned what it is to be American. To believe in God and to believe in yourself. To take risks, even when the risk means risking everything. It may be because I never had anything to lose, but I feel like in “playing to win” I am constantly risking everything. America balances perfectly the rule of law and the irreverence for bureaucracy. It is a land where your pedigree or social status matters much less than your dreams, aspirations, and work ethic. That might be the reason for my constant struggle to actively work on amazing things with amazing people. Through all of this, I feel like I have been very lucky. In the game I am playing, we have already won. What I want is to give people a chance, the same chance that was given to me. We should be more welcoming of immigrants, attracting and retaining the very best from all over the world, the ones that would like to have the chance that only America is able to provide. To quote De Tocqueville, “The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.” We will keep working and we will keep improving. And we will keep getting lucky. Rock on! #immigrantstories