Welcome to Ctrl+Alt+Finance

I'm Johnnie Walker, and I spend my work time thinking about how finance and technology work together to help companies scale.

Ctrl+Alt+Finance? It’s a play on Windows’ Ctrl+Alt+Del, which Google says is “a warm boot mechanism that can be used to restart the computer, especially when it's unresponsive.“ So I’m taking that and applying it to Finance—rebooting the finance tech stack. And yes, real Finance people are on Windows.

The writing here is mostly about venture-backed startups, but the principles apply more broadly.

Find me on LinkedIn and X and even on Github.

The cover image was generated by MidJourney AI with the prompt “Ctrl + Alt + Finance”. (Thanks Ethan Mollick for that idea)