Cyrus Shirazi (Haven) on Better Bookkeeping for Crypto Startups & Beyond (EP.648)
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This is Wyatt, and today I sat down with Cyrus Shirazi, founder of Haven. Haven is a modern tax and accounting firm geared towards serving early stage businesses with many customers in the crypto space and beyond. Cyrus has a deep background in and around startups and built Haven to address a pain point he saw across high growth companies he's worked with. In our discussion, we touch on how accounting is evolving in the backdrop of new technology, serving the needs of startups, and working with companies in the crypto space. Matt
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Cyrus, thanks for coming on. Excited to chat. To kick off, I wanted to ask you what got you into building Haven, and what is Haven today?
Thanks for having me. Great to be here. So what got me into building Haven? From the age of 12, I knew I was gonna build my own company. Why? Because my dad worked in private equity for ballpark fifteen, twenty years, quit his job, became a full time entrepreneur, and I would literally run home from school every day at that point and run up to his office and get to see firsthand him trying to take a company from zero to one, all different shapes and sizes of companies. One was a pizza and salads business. One was a chocolate company. One ultimately became a baseball biomechanics center, which
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