FinOpsPod

About FinOpsPod

FinOpsPod connects practitioners with the rest of the FinOps Foundation community. Real world practitioners will share their experiences and the Foundation team will share the latest news about the community. Learn more about the FinOps Foundation at www.finops.org.

Publisher

FinOps Foundation

Category

business · business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Mar 2022

Latest episode

21 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

10 of 48 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Advocating for Billing Features

   Mike Rosenberg of Nubank shares his journey advocating for improved SaaS billing features, offering insights on effective vendor engagement and community-driven data standardization.

2. 

   16 Dec 2025

   Benjamin van der Maas: Using AI to Scale FinOps

   Episode 47 Benjamin van der Maas: Using AI to Scale FinOps Benjamin van der Maas discusses how his team is using AI to scale their FinOps efforts. Topics covered include the necessary groundwork for effective AI implementation, the importance of domain expertise, and how AI can streamline reporting and analysis. The conversation also touches on AI's role in sustainability and the potential challenges of relying on large language models (LLMs). Automating Anomaly Investigation with AI - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQsfEZhpz0E&list=PLUSCToibAswnhNotqiR8SzxkoRhzJn79j&index=11) FinOps Certified: FinOps for AI (https://learn.finops.org/path/certified-finops-for-ai) Benjamin van der Maas | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-van-der-maas-71168466/)

3. 

   22 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Brad Payne: Integrating FinOps and Business Strategy

   Episode 46 Brad Payne: Integrating FinOps and Business Strategy Brad Payne, who leads the FinOps team at PointClickCare, shares how his team tackled cloud cost challenges not by jumping straight into optimization — but by focusing first on allocation and unit economics. That shift helped them uncover how cloud costs connected to specific products, customers, and revenue — sparking deeper collaboration with finance, pricing and packaging, and product teams. This resulted in FinOps moving beyond infrastructure to influence real business decisions. FinOps Certified: FinOps for AI (https://learn.finops.org/path/certified-finops-for-ai) Brad Payne | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-payne-8b5a9191/)

Inside a recent episode

Advocating for Billing Features

Published 21 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Let's go over them. The first move, one, ask for it. Their line was, don't assume your vendor will hand you data in the format you actually need. Most of the time, nobody has asked for it yet. Actually making the ask has to happen. Two, they suggest shrinking the ask until it's easy to say yes to. They took the entire focus spec, ranked it, and asked for only about a dozen priority columns first, not the entire spec. Move number three, make it a contract requirement. Use the leverage you already have at the procurement and renewal processes. Mike mentioned the contract renewal moment as a moment of leverage as well. […]

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Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

3.8 / 5

12 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

23 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 33 / 100

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Quality

47

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

50

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