Microsoft Excel, every mention

mentionsepisodesper episode tap a year for its mentions

Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft Excel comes up

loading…

▶ 8:49 Raman Malik So, you know, you, you imagine you, you open up an Excel sheet.

▶ 39:55 AJ Tennant If I give you, like, your book of business today, a hundred accounts, that's an Excel spreadsheet on column, column A is the name of the accounts.

▶ 2:07 Mike Hudack You know, he'd do a product review on Excel and he'd be like, click on that menu, go down five levels. 2 times in the scene

▶ 53:23 Aman Narang At the end of the day, fundamentally back to like, you know, it's not a business strategy, like any strategy you want, you put PowerPoint together and Excel spreadsheet together as it says, you know, here's a business model.

▶ 10:36 Kaz Nejatian They go into some Excel sheet, but I'm pretty sure Excel has done more damage to the world than any other software. 3 times in the scene
▶ 11:56 Kaz Nejatian Or in real world, what happens is a CSV export from here into an Excel sheet there to make a decision. 2 times in the scene

▶ 21:57 Jason Lemkin And the other thing that happens if you run from competition, especially sometimes in vertical SAS, um, because you can find a lot of categories in vertical SAS where the competition is SAP or Excel or paper or like some DOS application… 2 times in the scene

▶ 13:01 Rujul Zaparde Then as we started to talk to more people, we sort of morphed this and literally built an Excel, like a Google sheet and morphed it into ICP.

▶ 45:38 Girish Mathrubootham A good investor or a bad investor sometimes looking at Excel sheets and not really understanding how to help the startup.

▶ 32:37 unnamed speaker Same thing with, I always use Excel as the example, because Excel is, you know, there's so many different ways that you could use Excel, but it didn't start as a, Hey, here's a spreadsheet, you know, use it for whatever you want, right? 2 times in the scene
▶ 45:26 unnamed speaker When I could just have all in one here, same thing with like Google sheets and Google docs versus office, you know, originally it was like, it is definitely not Google spreadsheets are not better than Microsoft Excel, like period from a… 2 times in the scene

▶ 6:54 Mario Schlosser I said, it is so incredible how fast they can build Excel spreadsheets. 2 times in the scene
▶ 48:13 Mario Schlosser and I know it's bad, most likely, or there's an Excel table, I know it's bad.

▶ 46:35 Thomas Plantenga Then you rank those probabilities of success times the value of the market in a little Excel, and then you have your prioritization.
▶ 1:06:40 Thomas Plantenga And we've been looking at Excel files so much that we've seen very great companies with high EBITDA margin, but it doesn't mean that it by itself is a good thing.

Turn any episode into a week of clips.