Austin H.

Austin Hollan

Perplexity Head of Strategic Finance; former CorpFin @ xAI & Instacart

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Studied at BYU Marriott School of Business

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Hiring Manager at Perplexity AI

Available Saturday at 2:00 PM UTC

I can have more availability outside these windows by request.

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Austin's Coaching Offerings

Custom hourly · $300/hr

Get help with Variance Analysis, Financial Reporting, and .

Austin also coaches for AI Careers and Corporate Development. View all.

Austin’s FP&A Qualifications

Experience level: Vice President

Head of Strategic Finance at Perplexity.ai; former head of Corporate and AI Infrastructure Finance at xAI and former Corporate Finance lead at Instacart. Have experience owning weekly and monthly company reporting and forecasting, guidance, long-term planning, and earnings. Extensive experience forecasting and analyzing via WholeCo company model and special projects including new business ventures, transformative partnerships, acquisitions, and cash-flow. Experience consolidating and building forecasts from multiple teams and driving decisions across all financial statements.

Austin can help with:

Variance Analysis

Financial Reporting

Skill Building

Salary Negotiation

Financial Modeling

Financial Planning & Analysis

Networking Strategy

Interview Prep

Budgeting & Forecasting

Austin also coaches for AI Careers and Corporate Development. View all.

Work Experience

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Head of Strategic Finance

Perplexity AI

September 2025 - Present

Hiring Manager

Lead strategic finance including investor relations, treasury, company forecast, strategy, operations, and partnership and vendor negotiations.

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Corporate & AI Infrastructure Finance

x.ai

June 2025 - September 2025

Hiring Manager

Led corporate finance including company model and cash flow forecasting, Enterprise GTM, and datacenter planning, financing, and execution.

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Corporate Finance & Special Projects

Instacart

October 2021 - June 2025

Hiring Manager

IPO, corporate finance, transformative partnerships, M&A, IR, board, and executive support

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Investment Banking Senior Analyst

J.P. Morgan

December 2020 - October 2021

Interviewer

Global Technology Group M&A and Capital Markets

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Investment Banking Analyst

Union Square Advisors

May 2019 - December 2020

Interviewer

Technology M&A and Private Capital Advisory

Education

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BYU Marriott School of Business

B.S., Finance

Austin H.

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