Excel

“GM had been an investor in venture funds since the late seventies. They're invested in Excel, for example, all the way on from Excel number one all the way on through.”

“I did, I invested in a search as a service company called Algolia about a year ago that Excel just put eighteen million into, and I did it, and I did a session with the CEO at Heavybit a couple weeks ago, and I invested I think at like five KMR, so pretty earl…”

“If there is, at the earliest stages, a company that is High quality with high quality investors coming in. LPs are probably the last in line in terms of getting access to that. So imagine a seed funded company by one of our fund managers, a high quality firm l…”

“The nice thing I like about some of these small funds is that they don't compete in their sector, in their geography, in their states. They don't compete with Sequoia and Excel, benchmark, and increase. So they are dominant. They will never lose to them becaus…”

“The investment thesis that we got excited about was this concept of the unbundling of Excel, and we felt like Airtable could become the all-in-one collaboration platform that could kind of redefine how consumers think about productivity software.”

“The first big early stage outcome we had was Riverbed, where we were in the Series A with our friends at Excel, and that returned, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars to our investors.”

“Usually, if there is a partner from a top fund, there is a tendency to give overweight to his idea and decision point, where it's not substantiated by the merit of his idea, but just rather from the fact that he came from Sequoia, he came from Benchmark, he ca…”

“To date, UiPath has raised over nine hundred and seventy seven million dollars in funding from some of the very best in the world, including Sequoia, Excel, Meritech, IVP, Capital G, Kleiner, CoTo, and more.”

“Our role model for this is Excel.”

“Depending on the stage, obviously we'll use Excel. Less likely to use something like Google Sheets just because Excel is so powerful.”

“In just 13 months, Johnny's raised over a hundred and seventy four million dollars for Hopin, from the likes of Excel, IVP, Slack, North Zone, Co-Two, Salesforce, and of course, TwentyVC fund disclaimer.”

“I still believe that there needs to be specialized solutions for highly specialized use cases. And just like with Excel, like Microsoft Access, I don't know whether you remember, remember, but you would build your CRM in a spreadsheet or in Microsoft Access, r…”

“Prior to Tencent acquiring a majority stake in the company at a reported 10.2 billion dollar acquisition price, Ilka raised over one hundred and forty three million dollars for the company from Excel, Index, Atomico, IVP, LVP, Initial and Lifeline to name a fe…”

“Of course, if Sequoia or Excel or Andreessen or Lightspeed has two years of data and they don't preempt the A, of course it's a problem. Of course it's a bad signal. So that was a problem, and that exists today.”

“Well, it took, actually, the diligence took a few months, but our two, within a few weeks, we had a term sheet.”

“So everyone's decisions, regardless of how big you are as a company, ends up being made in an Excel sheet. And like, we're incredibly opinionated about this. We think this is a bad way to run a company.”

“I'm pretty sure Excel has done more damage to the world than any other software.”

“At Shopify, we've built software that imagines a company and runs continuously. Based on our prioritization stack, based on what we're working on, based on the APIs we have built ourselves into our data systems. So we don't have to have people building these l…”

“I don't even think ChatGPT is a really good product. It's like a calculator. It's got the technology in there encapsulated in a very simple form. But it's not a product that, like in Excel, that lets you just build whatever you'd like with it.”

“If you look at finance and how fast, ah, Excel went to 90% market penetration in finance. 1985 to 1986. Literally 18 months to 24 months, Excel took over all of finance. Everyone switched from using a calculator, the HP 12 C, to using Excel.”

“Excel made 2.5 billion dollars. Well done, Daniel Levine. Amazing seed bet early. Paige Craig led a pre-seed, a thousand extra turn.”

“If there's three people competing for the same Making the same kind of software. Then the law firm gets the value. Like we don't get paid. Excel doesn't charge 60 grand a year because it replaced an analyst. It charged 60 bucks because that's what you get for …”

“Being able to express a company in a few, a complex company in a few lines in Excel and tell stories with data is like an incredible skill.”

“A lot of knowledge work that's related to intermediate tasks, like people operating in Excel and JIRA. That's just not gonna be differentiated. The workflows are very common. And I think that we may not use a lot of tools like that in five to 10 years, so this…”