Esti Dadon

CFO, Fiverr International

Search every verified Esti Dadon interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Esti Levy Dadon, Executive Vice President of Finance at Fiverr, discussed her career and the company’s financial operations in two podcast appearances in August and September 2025. She noted that she joined Fiverr in 2016 and helped lead the company to its 2019 IPO. Dadon described the challenge of building a robust forecasting model for a public company with a transaction-based platform, stating that it is not a SaaS recurring model, which adds difficulty. She said that the CFO role has changed from focusing on controls and compliance to helping build strategy for healthy growth and profitability. Dadon also addressed the impact of AI on finance, saying she is not concerned that AI will replace the finance team, but that it will make work more efficient by handling tedious tasks, allowing finance professionals to focus on strategic analysis. She emphasized the importance of managing risk and opportunity, advising finance teams to be flexible and build contingency plans for different scenarios. Dadon added that she is still waiting for things to become boring and repeatable at Fiverr, but that never happens because things change all the time.