Why ScaleFactor Failed, According to Employees (It Wasn't COVID-19)

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Show Notes

• 05:55 - What Arizona's Tenuous Coronavirus Plateau Could Teach Us – NYTimes
• 09:32 - McConnell’s stimulus waiting game turns into race against clock – Accounting Today
• 10:10 - White House, GOP Agree On $1T CARES 4.0 - PYMNTS.com
• 11:12 - What Democrats and Republicans want in the next coronavirus relief package – Reuters
• 14:10 - State CPA society CEOs call for federal relief for state and local governments amid coronavirus – Accounting Today
• 15:09 - New AICPA tool automates PPP loan forgiveness process - Journal of Accountancy
  •         https://www.pppforgivenesstool.com/
• 17:15 - Strip-club stimulus reveals lingering uncertainties over U.S. small-business aid – Reuters
• 21:00 - Why Zoom meetings really do leave you exhausted - Journal of Accountancy
• 23:12 - Companies Start to Think Remote Work Isn’t So Great After All – Wall Street Journal 
• 24:41 - Staff do worse when asked to report frequently, accounting study shows – CFO Dive
• 25:23 - 66% Working from Home Say They're More Likely to Work Nights and Weekends – Small Business Trends 
• 27:41 - Employees Want to Return to a Physical Workplace – Small Business Trends
• 30:25 - ScaleFactor Raised $100 Million In A Year Then Blamed Covid-19 For Its Demise. Employees Say It Had Much Bigger Problems. – Forbes
• 48:20 - Siri Srinivas on Twitter on the Forbes ScaleFactor article - Twitter  
• 52:12 – A listener's feedback on our brief discussion on modern monetary theory – Twitter 
• 58:37 - The Rescues Ruining Capitalism – WSJ
• 1:00:58 Jirav scores $8M in Series A funding – Accounting Today
• 1:01:03 - Lawsuit Alleges Plaid Violated User Privacy - PYMNTS.com 
• 1:01:20 - Kabbage Rolls Out Checking Accounts For SMBs - PYMNTS.com 
• 1:01:24 - Brex Offers FDIC Insurance - PYMNTS.com 
• 1:01:31 - FinTech Revolut Raises $80M In New Funding - PYMNTS.com
• 1:01:41 - Painting the Art of the Possible, with Brad Smith - Shift

Addendum: Scale Factor
 

Botkeeper story we broke in FEB 2019 

• https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/its-not-a-bot-the-truth-about-botkeeper-the-google-funded-ai-powered-bookkeeper-replacement-9c3f42d230b6
• https://www.cloudaccountingpodcast.com/60
• https://www.cloudaccountingpodcast.com/61
• https://www.facebook.com/davidleary/videos/10157125979906477/ 

VisorTax's failure 

• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/think-your-2018-tax-season-tough-check-out-visors-attempt-david-leary/
• https://www.cloudaccountingpodcast.com/70  

Our past Scalefactor coverage

• https://www.cloudaccountingpodcast.com/55
• https://www.cloudaccountingpodcast.com/104
• https://www.cloudaccountingpodcast.com/160

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