Matt Putra

Eightx

As the Founder and CEO of Eightx, I lead a team of elite fractional CFOs and financial professionals dedicated to helping businesses transition from intuition-based management to strategic, data-driven leadership. 

We work with companies with annual revenues of $10MM - $100MM.

(Your) Fractional CFO

SwimOutlet.com

SwimOutlet.com is the premier online destination for aquatics apparel and the web's most popular swim shop.

Trusted by 10,000+ Swim Teams
Swimming's Largest Loyalty Program
250,000+ 5-Star Reviews

Fractional CFO

Tru Earth

Tru Earth is on a mission to eradicate plastic. For every 32 laundry eco-strips purchased from Tru Earth, one plastic container is prevented from entering landfills and oceans.

As of July 2024, we eliminated 186,196,583 containers from landfills around the world.

As of Sep 2024, we've donated 50,834,725 loads of laundry to people in need.

Advisor

Eightx.Ai

On a mission to help businesses create more value while shrinking their costs.

Get your first AI workflow for free -> https://eightx.ai/

Founder

The Turmeric Co.

Lusomé

Keep Nature Wild

Co Owner, CFO/COO

BiBADO

BRUNA The Label

Loop Club

Loop (acquired by Structured in 2022) was a premier marketing agency based in LA. We helped them manage out of a tight spot, thrive, then exit.

Fractional CFO | Helping eCom Brands Find Their 8 or 9 Figure Exit | Helping ventures from Seed to Series B

I work with the architects of tomorrow's most influential brands.

As CEO of Eightx, I partner exclusively with founders and CEOs of companies who understand that extraordinary outcomes require extraordinary financial sophistication.

My clients aren't looking for traditional CFO services. They're building enterprises that command premium valuations, attract institutional investment, and set industry standards.

What sets the leaders I work with apart:

- They think in terms of strategic positioning, not just profit margins
- They build financial frameworks that tell compelling investor stories
- They understand that sophisticated infrastructure separates market leaders from everyone else

Recent transformations:

→ Long term client recently acquired by major market player

→ Built a forecasting system for an omni channel client that achieved 94% accuracy over 14 months (client acquired by Morgan Stanley)

→ Preparing Health & Wellness client for nine-figure exit

The founders I partner with recognize that building something truly significant requires more than good products, it demands the kind of financial architecture that institutional investors and strategic acquirers immediately recognize as exceptional.

🎙️: I explore these themes on "How Do I?," where I interview CEOs who've successfully scaled from operators to industry architects.

Currently accepting select partnerships.

3 steps to stop profit leaks from staff credit cards:

1) Cancel and reissue all credit cards once per year

2) Use one central IT or finance card for all recurring subs. Block all other cards from signing on to subscriptions. 

3) Use Rippling’s card management program 

Do not
- accept reimbursement requests from people. Receipts can now be faked. 
- let people sign on to subscriptions. Everyone forgets that they have them.

🌱 How Do I… turn company culture into a growth engine?

Most leaders say “culture matters.” But few know how to measure it — or link it to actual performance.

🗨️ “Culture isn’t about happiness. It’s about alignment — when everyone rows in the same direction.”

In this episode of How Do I?, Emily Yueh (President at Sneex, former COO of David Yurman, and 15-year McKinsey partner) shares a proven framework for turning culture from a buzzword into a measurable driver of business growth.

🎧 Listen now and learn how to spot when culture is capping your company’s potential — and how to fix it before it’s too late.

#HowDoIPodcast #Leadership #CompanyCulture #BusinessGrowth #OrganizationalHealth #TeamPerformance

How much to spend to drive incremental revenue is a math problem that can be solved.

Founder. Innovator. Purpose-driven leader.

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Jordan West

E-Com Investor & Podcast Host | Multiple Exits| Avid Golfer, Biker + Hiker | Dad Of 3 | CEO + CMO | Mastermind Host

My Journey 
When I was 23 I decided to buy a Taco Del Mar restaurant... I knew I had made a huge mistake at 2pm the first day when only 3 customers had walked in... (and two of them were my parents haha) 
For 5 years I worked hard to grow sales every way I could think of and in the end, tripled our revenue which still didn't seem to matter on the profit side. (I lost a lot of money 💰)

The one thing that I seemed to be the best at in the restaurant endeavor was marketing and getting people in the door. 

Fast forward to 2014 when my wonderful wife Carmen (definitely my better half) started a modest baby clothing line and was selling at craft markets. 

I asked if I could test running a few ads on Facebook... and the rest is history. I learned every up-and-coming strategy and tactic and helped grow the small start-up to a multi-million dollar company and still growing!

Since then we have acquired multiple DTC brands and have built an agency (upGrowth Commerce) to service our brands as well as others who are in a similar situation to us!

In 2019 we started the podcast "secrets to scaling your e-commerce brand" which is now in the top 50 business/marketing podcasts in multiple countries including Canada and the United States.

I love connecting with people, so please connect. (I do have a no a**holes policy though, so don't connect if that's you.) 

I talk all about scaling businesses using paid ads on “Secrets To Scaling Your E-Commerce Brand”.

Chief Executive Officer

We just helped a brand pass $3,000,000/month on TikTok Shop LAST MONTH and it wasn’t luck!!

We’re now ranked as one of the Top 5 TikTok agencies in North America at Social Commerce Club!!

What I've seen is... 

Most brands have no clue what the investment into TikTok Shop ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE!

They guess when to spend, when to restock, or when they’ll hit break-even.

We don’t guess.

We plan every move using a forecasting system we built in-house. 

It shows exactly:

 📈 When to scale and how fast
 💸 When you’ll hit break-even
 📊 How much to invest in creators, inventory, and ad spend
 ⚙️ When to pull back or double down

That system is the same one we use daily to manage multi-million-dollar TikTok Shop brands.

And now, we’ve decided to make it available to other operators.

If you want the same forecasting tool we use to plan, invest, and measure scale... comment “Forecast” and I’ll DM it to you. 

(must be connected)

Let me know what you think!

I want to be clear 🫠 
These daily random TikTok Shop GMV MAX screenshots that I share are from ADS driven results ONLY 🤩 

This doesn't include organic affiliate driven content 

I feel like the guy in 2015 trying to tell his friends that Facebook ads work (I was that guy lol) while the majoirty of people were waiting...

I realize that if you haven't gone HARD on TikTok shop you won't be able to to before BFCM 

But... 2026 will be the BIGGEST SHIFT into social commerce that we have seen. 

As AI content becomes more prevalent, HUMANS will crave human connection 

Which is why I believe that LIVE SHOPPING + Afilliate driven content will be the two biggest levers any brand can add to their arsensal. 

So what is my recomendation for bransnds in 2026? 

1. Talk to my team NOW to get in line at Social Commerce Club
2. If you can't afford us... I'll send you recommendations for cheaper agencies
3. If you're just trying to dip your toes in the water of TikTok shop join my skool group here https://lnkd.in/gMAu-gDZ

Me: “If you had one controversial take on what brands get wrong on TikTok Shop… what is it?”
Zohaib Rattu 🤳: “Over-subsidizing their products.”

Me: “Not could be cannibalizing your other channels… you ARE.”

That moment hit hard!!!

Because here’s what a lot of brands are doing right now:

They take their main hero SKU
Sell it full price everywhere else

Then make it stupid cheap on TikTok Shop “just to get sales” + get momentum

And then they’re shocked when

Amazon flatlines

TOTAL MER blows up

Retail partners start asking questions
TikTok didn’t break your unit economics.

You did!!

The way I think about TikTok Shop:

It’s the only channel that will pay you (even breakeven) to give you insane impressions.
If you even make $1 profit there

And you’re getting a $30 CPM worth of awareness for free
You’re winning.

The problem...

Most brands aren’t tracking the halo.
So they see “low-margin TikTok orders”

Instead of “cheap reach that lifts Amazon / Shopify / retail”.

If I were rebuilding your TikTok Shop strategy from scratch, I’d do 3 things:

1️⃣ Protect the hero
 
No more “fire sale” pricing on the SKU that drives your brand.
 Use:

 – Smaller bundles
 – Trial sizes
 – TikTok-only variants
 
And keep price architecture consistent across channels.

2️⃣ Define your blended model
 
Decide up front:
 – What MER are you happy with including TikTok
 – How you’ll measure halo (Amazon, Shopify, retail lift)
 – What CPM you’re effectively getting from organic + creator content

If TikTok is breakeven but blended MER is up and CPMs are down… keep going.

3️⃣ Make TikTok the awareness engine, not the profit center (at first) 
 
Creators get you reach.
 
Reach fills retargeting pools on Meta, Google, Amazon, retail.
 
Your job is to:

 – Seed a ton of creators
 – Let TikTok Shop break even
 – Harvest the profit off-platform

TikTok Shop doesn’t have to be “super profitable”. (at first)

It has to be super scalable.

Curious where you’re at...
 Are you still discounting your main hero SKU heavily on TikTok Shop? 

Or have you already pulled that back?

You’re talented?
Great! Let me tell you what matters more… 
And why talent is the thing that I look for last 👇👇 

Are you complainer? 
Are you a victim?
Do you not have a growth mindset?
Can you not take criticism?
Do you have a fragile Ego? 
Is it everything everybody else’s fault?


 if you answered, yes to any of the above, I don’t want you in any of my organizations.

If you are thinking to yourself, oh man, I have these people in my organization… do everything in your power to first coach and correct, but most likely you need to remove them. 

It’s incredible What will happen when you do! 

Anyone else with me?

Big ask LinkedIn 🙏
We’re looking for a head of live shopping at Social Commerce Club 

Will be insane growth over the next 5 years 

Maybe one of the biggest ops that I can think of TBH 

Will be sooooooo much work

But you will help us build something HUGE! 

NA based only 

Message me if you think it’s you. 

This role will report directly to the CEO btw

Yes yes yes 

We have been thinking more about what this role looks like from the agency perspective.

How we train fast

Who’s base knowledge makes them a good fit etc. 

And I will tell you what I know. 

99% of people don’t get it. 

They haven’t had the paradigm shift yet. 

It’s a new muscle 

It’s a new way of thinking. 

Working with creators is HARD! 

They don’t perform like ads do 😆

But this role is really big in terms of impact and responsibility 

Seems like more brands are catching on. 

But tbh I still feel like guy in 2014 telling their friends to invest as much as they can into Facebook ads and they laugh at me 🤷‍♂️🫤 when it comes to how big social commerce really is going to be!

Here’s how I look at this…

At Social Commerce Club we… 

1. take the highest performing tiktok shop content

2. Offer a percentage of ad spend (capped) to the creator to use their content on Meta 

3. Print brands cash with these ads omnichannel 

This is the 2025 playbook imo

Yesterday I was driving with my son who’s 6… 

We saw a bunch of billboards and he was asking about the messages on each

It reminded me of the classic Tim Ferris question… so I decided to ask him

“If you could put one message on a Billboard, what would it be?” 

He took about 3 seconds and said 

“My message would be “I love you””

This kid gets it ❤️

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