Every founder's pitch deck tells a story of growth.

What it rarely shows is the finance leader quietly asking how much of that growth the company can actually afford.

At a closed-door roundtable hosted by JLL, finance and business leaders from across sectors set aside the usual founder gloss to talk through the harder questions behind the scenes.

The discussion brought together Rajesh Warrier (Betterplace), Anshul Agarwal (Leap Finance), Neeraj Jain (Amagi), Akshay Sarma (Axio), Karan Punjabi (Exponent Energy), Parul Gupta (Wakefit), Mandar Vaidya (Cloudphysician), and Sachin Nandwana (BigHaat), moderated by Madanmohan Roy of YourStory.

Productivity is real, but so is the disruption