Episode 471 features Alyona Mysko, Founder & CEO of Fuel Finance.
Chapters:
00:00 — Introduction
01:23 — How Alyona Met Alina Vandenberghe (Eastern Europe Bond)
03:59 — From Math Geek to Finance: Teachers, Simpsons, Degrees
07:02 — Big Four to Fractional CFO ➜ Founding Fuel Finance
08:44 — Opportunity Cost & Learning to Say No
12:28 — Biggest Risks—Startup, Product, Move to the U.S.
16:48 — What Founders Miss at the Start: Talk Money on Day One
23:42 — Profit 101: Your First Financial Plan & Realistic Forecasting
40:06 — Product-Market Fit Signals & Narrowing Your ICP
44:25 — Action Challenge: Set Your “Life Number” + Monthly P&L Hour
Find Alyona Online:
Website: https://fuelfinance.me/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alyona-mysko/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alyona_mysko/
About Alyona:
Alyona Mysko is the CEO and Co-Founder of Fuelfinance, an AI-powered financial planning and analysis platform built for SMBs. Before starting Fuel, she spent 10+ years as a CFO helping founders handle messy spreadsheets and build forecasts. Now she’s scaling that superpower with AI, giving founders real-time visibility into their numbers and faster decisions without hiring a full finance team.