The Modern CFO

Andrew Seski has been running The Modern CFO for five years now, and the show has built a solid reputation as a place where sitting finance chiefs actually open up about what the job looks like in practice. Seski is the co-founder of Nth Round, a platform that helps private companies manage equity, so he comes to interviews with a working knowledge of the capital structure questions that keep CFOs up at night. The episodes tend to run 30 to 45 minutes, which is long enough for a real conversation but short enough to finish on a commute. Guests are usually current or former CFOs from mid-market and growth-stage companies, and Seski tends to ask about the messy parts of the job rather than the polished narrative. Recent episodes have covered private company liquidity, building finance teams during hypergrowth, and how younger CFOs are rethinking the old controller-to-strategist career path. What sets this show apart from other CFO interview podcasts is Seski's willingness to let guests go off-script. He does not run through a checklist of generic questions. When someone mentions a specific deal or a hiring mistake, he follows the thread. That makes some episodes feel more like a coffee chat between two operators than a formal interview. The show is not trying to be the biggest CFO podcast on the internet. It publishes on its own rhythm and focuses on substance. For finance leaders who want to hear peers talk honestly about their jobs, it earns a spot in the rotation.