SYZYGY Co-Founders Chris Walters and Tyler Burr on Patience in Partnerships
October 22, 2024
United by a shared vision of full-service, future-facing accounting, friends and business partners, Tyler Burr and Chris Walters, co-founded SYZYGY in 2020, as COO and CFO respectively.
The accounting firm combines Tyler’s background in operations with Chris’ production-specific accounting experience, providing adland and production companies with accounts services, job costing, cashflow management and CFO-level consulting, all with an ‘outsourced accounting advantage’.
The pair first met when Tyler interviewed at a firm they previously worked at together. “My first impression was, ‘Wow, she is smart, and I’m not sure we can work together because she’s a lot smarter than me’,” says Chris about her future SYZYGY co-founder. “I was correct about the ‘smarter than me’, but not that we couldn’t work together.”
On the other side of things, Tyler’s attention was first caught by Chris’ even temperament and thoughtfulness, as well as her ability to make decisions. “I hadn’t met somebody running a company with that temperament, so I was like, ‘Oh, I wonder how that’ll turn out!’ Well, here’s the answer.”
The duo worked closely from the start and with Chris teaching Tyler about accounting, they were soon attached at the hip.
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