Money Expert: Why Tracking Your Money Changes Everything Ajinkya Tanpure

Ajinkya Tanpure is a mechanical engineer turned venture capitalist turned fintech founder. He is the Founder & CEO of Crossval on a mission to eliminate the pain of accounting with automation, AI, and smart financial workflows. In this episode, we talk about his leap from engineering to finance, the realities of the founder-to-CEO journey, and why good communication, clear positioning, and tracking what matters can make or break your startup. Last Message: "Being successful is about finding balance" 0:00 Intro 3:02 AJ’s background 3:57 Switching from engineering to finance 11:04 Should you join a VC when you’re young? 15:49 The founder journey is the same 25:04 The importance of communication for founders 33:14 Positioning 35:30 Going from founder to CEO 43:39 Why is finance hard to learn? 47:59 Crossval Academy 52:15 Why we don’t like to track 1:00:22 Crossval is revolutionizing your accounting 1:10:44 Working with startups vs enterprise 1:16:20 What is Crossval? 1:18:39 Accounting pain points 1:22:45 Gov’t initiatives supporting Crossval 1:25:04 Biggest challenge launching fintech company 1:32:44 Proud 1:34:14 Last message Follow Ajinkya: Linkedin: Instagram: Website: Follow Hope It Helps: Linkedin: Instagram: Tiktok: Website:

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Money Expert: Why Tracking Your Money Changes Everything Ajinkya Tanpure is an episode from Hope It Helps by Khaled Abuljebain.

This episode is 98:33 long.

This episode was published on Nov 29, 2025.

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