Specialising in corporate finance at business school, I revisited and repriced Ferrari's 2015 IPO and independently evaluated Tesla. Both were directionally right, far from perfect, and incredibly wrong on timing: value concentrates in terminal assumptions, and comparables fail when a company is worth comparing. What surprised me most was how interpretive the work turned out to be. A valuation is an argument about the future dressed as arithmetic, and the judgement sits in which assumptions you choose to defend. I can see how architects, designers, and founders stand to gain enormously from financial literacy, since creative vision is strongest when paired with a working command of how things get funded, valued, and built.