Figma CFO Praveer Melwani used to spend his days writing hundreds of lines of SQL just to get one set of numbers everyone trusted. Now his finance team builds its own AI tools to do that work. He sees the CFO's job shifting from traffic cop to business enabler, as long as the people doing the building still own their thinking. Praveer joins a16z's Seema Amble and Ivan Makarov, authors of "You Need a New CFO," to discuss the growth-stage finance team that built 40 to 50 agents in a month or two, what breaks when every rep vibe codes their own dashboard, and how finance went from sitting out hackathons to winning them. 0:00 From traffic cop to business enabler 8:48 Hire people who understand the model 12:20 Vibe coding a target to test moats 13:15 An AI Dylan Field reviews the memos 18:01 Let AI make the messy data calls 20:00 Unused agents still build the habit 20:46 The CIO's new job: scale what works 22:36 The rise of the finance engineer 26:24 Why the board trusts his numbers 30:25 AI tools as a recruiting perk 40:35 Why Excel is his "love language" 44:20 What to look for in your next CFO YouTube: @figma @seema_amble @IvanoMakSF