The LinkedIn-ification of the CFO role is here, and it’s about more than just repeating recently reported revenues. (Alliteration check!)

According to recent data from the social platform, member engagement with CFO content grew 15% in 2025. People want to know what a CFO has to say. Leading with authenticity has helped healthcare software platform CFO Manu Diwakar decide what to post, he told CFO Brew.

“I sometimes don’t always really understand why people want to know what I think, but I think that they do, and so I’m more than happy to share and be transparent,” Diwakar, who leads finance at Virta Health, told CFO Brew.

Finance leaders like Diwakar are increasingly acting as a “translator in chief” for their companies on the platform, according to LinkedIn’s senior managing editor and head of news growth, Devin Banerjee.

What they’re posting and what they’re not.—DL

Move over, watercooler talk. There’s a new hotspot in town: the gas pump.

As the war in Iran sends gas prices into the stratosphere—the average price nationally is now over $4.50 per gallon—CFOs from a wide range of industries are addressing the elephant at the gas pump head-on.

Of course, it’s about more than gas. High gas prices typically hit low-income households first, experts say. “Lower-income households have a higher share of gas spending in their budget, and they save less, so when they get hit by a gasoline shock in a lower-income household, it’s more painful,” David Tinsley, senior economist at the Bank of America Institute, told us.

Given ongoing challenges facing low income consumers, companies trying to emphasize affordability and value are in a tight spot. And the fact that consumers across the spectrum are revealing a decidedly sour read on the economy—consumer sentiment hit a new low in May, largely on the back of gas prices—only adds to the difficulties.

Why the price pressure will continue.—NP

If Dell doesn’t immediately come to mind when thinking of major AI players, nobody would blame you. The company has moved like the g in lasagna away from laptops and other consumer goods and into AI infrastructure.

A core component of this push is Dell’s enterprise-focused Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) which has used a familiar Dell playbook to grab pole position in the AI race. It is creating a comprehensive AI needs ecosystem for customers who want end-to-end solutions (think servers, storage, and networking solutions).

Revenue Brew spoke to Dell’s Arthur Lewis, president of the ISG unit, about the pivot, and what comes next.

This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

When the pivot toward AI started, what was the original strategy? How did it evolve over time?

We understood there was going to be a lot of training infrastructure that needed to get built around these foundational models, and the way in which we typically go to market, the way that we typically approach engineering and product roadmaps, was really not going to carry the day.

Dell tells Revenue Brew its plans for cashing in.—BS