Finance for founders
Read your own numbers before your investors do.
Board meetings, fundraising and pricing decisions all come down to a handful of numbers. Octo builds a course around your business model and the decision in front of you, so the finance you learn is the finance you will use.
The finance a founder cannot delegate
An accountant can keep your books. Only you can decide whether you can afford the next hire, whether your pricing works, or how long your runway really is. Those decisions rest on a small set of ideas: unit economics, cash versus revenue, burn and runway, and the metrics your investors will ask about.
A course Octo might design for you
This is an illustration. Every course is designed for the person who asks, so yours will follow your business model and your goal.
Asked "I'm raising a seed round for a SaaS product and need to understand the metrics investors will ask about", Octo might plan:
| Module | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Revenue that recurs | MRR and ARR, and why they are not the same as cash in the bank |
| Unit economics | Customer acquisition cost, lifetime value and payback, from your own numbers |
| Burn and runway | Gross and net burn, and how many months you really have |
| The metrics deck | Which numbers to show, how to present them, and the questions they invite |
| Pricing with the numbers | Using margin and payback to test a pricing change before you make it |
How Octo builds it
Octo asks about your business model, your stage and what you need to decide before it designs anything. You review and reshape the plan before any lesson is written, and the Ask AI tutor beside each lesson answers questions about your numbers as you work through them.
Finish the course and you get a certificate anyone can verify. Share it with a co-founder who needs the same fluency.
Start with one sentence
Tell Octo what you are deciding and by when. Your first course is free to build. More on learning as a founder.
Updated September 24, 2026