Angelina YangFounder and Host, TwoSetAI · AI builder for visibility and discoverability

The Whole Reason They Hired Me Is To Blame Someone

11 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief segment of a YouTube interview, Angelina Yang and a co‑speaker explore the prospect of automating finance functions to the point where a single CFO could oversee a $100 million ARR company without a traditional finance team. While acknowledging that a system could handle the first 90 % of tasks, they stress that human oversight remains essential due to legal liability. The conversation is punctuated by an anecdote from a CFO design partner who remarked that their primary purpose for being hired is to serve as the person who gets blamed when things go wrong, highlighting the cultural and accountability aspects of the CFO role.

And if you can complete the first 90%, are you going to be able to replace the whole finance team and you only need a CFO?
The ideal situation is that in a couple of years there will be a company that grows to $100 million in ARR with one person running finance across all of these various tools. Still going to need some control because at the end of the day, it still comes down to liability. I remember when we first started, one of our CFO design partners told us, look, the whole reason they've hired me is to blame someone when things go wrong.