@LarkinStreet

Ending youth homelessness by opening doors to housing, education, and employment as youth shape what’s next.

 San Francisco, CA
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Joined November 2009
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Know a young person ages 18-24 who could use a good meal, helpful resources, or a place to belong? This fall, our San Francisco Engagement Community Center is opening its doors for five community events.
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Scaling a smart ring toward IPO (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Scaling a smart ring toward IPO

When Sean Brecker joined Oura as chief financial officer in October 2023, the smart ring maker had last been valued at $2.55 billion. Two funding rounds later, it is worth $11 billion, and Brecker’s...

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 23
Adopting AI while protecting systems (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Adopting AI while protecting systems

“AI and frontier models such as Mythos have dramatically shifted the speed and severity of cyberattacks in favor of attackers,” said Anup Singh, CFO of Illumio. “The question is not whether companies...

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On Monday, we welcomed Senator @AdamSchiff Senator Schiff and Mayor @DanielLurie to our Engagement Community Center to celebrate $1 million in federal funding for Larkin Street, secured through the Senator’s leadership.   Learn more: larkinstreetyouth.org/1m-fed…
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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 15
Coaching a team to go all in (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Coaching a team to go all in

"For a CFO or financially oriented person, you can drive outsized value in a smaller organization,” said Chris Ogden, senior vice president and CFO of CytomX Therapeutics.

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 15
From a team of 6 to IPO in 1 year (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

From a team of 6 to IPO in 1 year

After a career that included Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, Nitin Agrawal was sure of one thing: no cloud business could scale without a bulletproof balance sheet. But when he met...

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 16
Focusing on what really matters to drive growth (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Focusing on what really matters to drive growth

Howard Wilson describes himself as an accidental CFO. “I started out as a software engineer, and I have this interesting path to get here,” he said. “I didn’t stay in my lane.”

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 19
Charting a course for growth (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Charting a course for growth

“It was a dream job to be able to come back to Pebble Beach and do what I’m doing now,” said Matthews, who joined Pebble Beach Resorts as director of finance in June 2014. He became CFO in 2017 at...

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 20
Building the capital structure behind 40 acquisitions (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Building the capital structure behind 40 acquisitions

“To me, the best finance teams aren’t a back-office function,” said Philip Mortimer, CFO of Heffernan Group. “They’re trusted business partners that help shape the future of the organization.”

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 21
Turning smartphones into collateral (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Turning smartphones into collateral

Bill Yialamas is CFO of PayJoy, a public benefit corporation that lends to people with no credit file, using their smartphones as collateral.

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 12
Leading a SaaS pivot to scale (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Leading a SaaS pivot to scale

Kiran Choudary, CFO of the Palo Alto cybersecurity and AI operations company Rubrik, steered the firm in its pivot from a hardware appliance-based license software business to a SaaS subscription...

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 14
Building a beauty powerhouse (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Building a beauty powerhouse

By March 2019, e.l.f. Beauty Inc. had grown to $268 million in annual net sales. Then Mandy Fields took the financial helm as CFO, and e.l.f.’s next-phase transformation kicked into high gear. The...

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Young people have a stake in what’s on the ballot. 🗳️ Our Youth Advisory Board researched SF Prop C, CA Prop 1 & CA Prop 44 and took a stance on each. Swipe to see them, then join us TODAY at 134 Golden Gate Ave to register and make a plan to vote! #VoteReady #VoteSF
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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 13
The story behind the spreadsheet (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

The story behind the spreadsheet

Ashley Johnson thought she would pursue a career in foreign service. But a nudge from an ambassador she met as a student turned her toward business, first in investment banking, then private equity.

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Home is more than a roof. It’s belonging, community, and a place to lead from. Today we honor the Ramaytush Ohlone, original stewards of this land, whose descendants are still here. Ending youth homelessness starts with trust in young people. #IndigenousPeoplesDay
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In just 1 day, 150+ volunteers from @Render & Hands On Bay Area transformed 6 spaces at our housing site for young people. By that night, youth were already hanging out & settling into the study room. Thank you! Photos: hubs.la/Q04zQSss0
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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 9
Turning users into shareholders at the IPO price (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Turning users into shareholders at the IPO price

In March 2021, Reddit hired Drew Vollero as its first CFO. The move came a month after a more than $250 million funding round doubled the San Francisco company’s valuation to $6 billion. The plan was...

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Voting is easier when you have good information and someone to ask. That's what we're offering young people on October 14. 📅 Wednesday, October 14
🕥 10:30 am to 1:00 pm
📍 134 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco Free lunch & a raffle for youth participants. Open to ages 18-24.
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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 2
Engineering a career of transformation and impact (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Engineering a career of transformation and impact

As the leader of Cisco System’s global finance organization, Herren was at the helm of a significant shift in the company from its hardware roots toward more software and recurring revenue.

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 6
Navigating a company’s cultural shift (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Navigating a company’s cultural shift

When Aidan Viggiano stepped into the CFO role at customer engagement platform Twilio, her immediate task was to navigate the impact of a major culture change from “a ‘growth at all costs’ mentality...

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