Google Sheets

also referred to as: google sheet

part of Google

5 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jun 8, 2020 by Merci Victoria Grace · said 48 times in 35 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Jun 8, 2020 positive
Opinion
Merci Victoria Grace prefers Excel over Google Sheets for deal evaluation
“Depending on the stage, obviously we'll use Excel. Less likely to use something like Google Sheets just because Excel is so powerful.”
Merci Victoria Grace Jun 8, 2020 ▶ 10:32 20VC: Lightspeed Partner, Merci Victoria Grace on The Future of Collaboration Tools, Bundling vs Unbundling, Synchronous vs Asynchronous & What It Means To Productise The S*** Out of Venture
Dec 11, 2023
Insight
Stebbings: Transparent Pipeline Sheets Drive Investor Competition and Value
“When it comes to like sales pipeline in particular, share a Google sheet with the companies that you want to speak to, the specific person within the company, hyperlink, hyperlink their LinkedIn. So it's super easy for me to go. Oh shit. Actually, I do know th…”
Harry Stebbings Dec 11, 2023 ▶ 37:24 Sam Corcos: Why Founders Should Take as Many VC Meetings as Possible | E1093 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 14, 2024
Disclosure
Gontovnikas built a custom GPT to query his past failure learnings
“Lately, for example, one thing I've done is all of the learnings, I have them in my Google sheets with What did we learn? Some tags and stuff like that. And I created like a GPT from it.”
Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto) Feb 14, 2024 ▶ 6:33 Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto): The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make When Scaling into Enterprises | E1115 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 14, 2024
Insight
Nejatian: There is no such thing as opinion-free software
“There is no such a thing as opinion-free software. The fact that Google Sheets is built the way it is changes how you write, how you think, how you, like, imagine the world.”
Kaz Nejatian Aug 14, 2024 ▶ 9:43 Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 17, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Google Sheets Had Over 100 Million Users During Code Rewrite
“We rewrote Google Sheets because it's a crazy scale. And so, you know, if you have something that has a hundred million plus users, which is what it had at the time, I think it's now like a billion users.”
Zach Lloyd Oct 17, 2025 ▶ 4:48 20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
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