Catching up with my old friend Benito Serna, CTO of briq.mx, for a relaxed chat about what actually goes on behind the scenes of a software powered business. We get into Ruby on Rails (yes, the stack Shopify and GitHub still run on), why it reads almost like English, how his team uses AI day to day, and what happens when non engineers try to vibe code their way past 20 messages.

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Growing revenue means nothing if none of it reaches your bank account. In this episode, Armando sits down with Nate Littlewood, founder of Future Ready CFO, to talk about why so many founders feel financially stuck even as their businesses scale.

Nate spent a decade on Wall Street and another decade building his own e-commerce company before launching Future Ready CFO, a fractional CFO practice for early-stage and growth-stage founders.

If you are running a business and want to build a healthier relationship with your numbers, this episode is a great starting point. Hit subscribe for more conversations with founders, operators, and experts building the future.

Connect with Nate:Website: https://futurereadycfo.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanlittlewood/

Tommy Cotter from Benzinga joins the show to break down how stock market news actually works, and why their API business is quietly powering dashboards built by hobbyists at 2am and banks with millions of users alike. We get into the rise of prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi, how people are running arbitrage bots across them, and why 84 terabytes of historical news data is gold for training trading models. If you have ever wondered how financial media really makes money or thought about vibe coding your own trading tool, this one is worth your time.