About us

Our mission is to help people build, share, and operate the best financial models in the world.

Why did we build Numbrz?

Back in 2004, I joined VMware as the third finance person during a time of rapid growth. One of my key responsibilities was creating a weekly bookings report and sending it to the top executives every Friday night. The data compilation took 2-3 hours of manual work before I could even start adding my commentary.

After spending too many Friday nights on this task, I decided to automate the process. I created a dashboard called Flash Gordon using Excel, ODBC, and SQL, which updated every four hours. This automation made everyone happy, freed up my Friday nights, and made me realize that analysts need better tools.

Our perspective

We believe great models should be available to everyone.

Observations

  • Most models are built from scratch and need improvement. Most great models don’t survive and are impossible to usefully share.

  • Building sophisticated models outside of spreadsheets requires slow and difficult interactions with technical resources.

Solution

  • A financial modeling platform that fosters community model building and improvement – a place where sharing is easy and the norm.

  • Features that allow experts to build without coding.

  • Spreadsheets are not enough, but they are part of the solution (i.e., spreadsheets are not the enemy).

Actions

  • Step 1: provide builders a better tool that works with spreadsheets (done).

  • Step 2: foster a dialog among model builders, subject matter experts, and users of models to facilitate durable, community-led models (in process).

  • Step 3: Open a marketplace for publishing models and data (up next).