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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft Excel comes up
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Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:45 Ryan Petersen My, my first Excel, uh, my first and only financial model that I made for myself for the business got to one million of revenue, right? 3 times in the scene
Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:30 Brendan Foody It's just like the barrier to automating everything that you can do in, say, Google Workspace is how do we cover the full distribution of all of the context, i.e. messages, slacks, slides, Excel sheets, and all of the tasks, prompts, and…
OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:33 unnamed speaker Being an agentic, uh, an agentic expert should be like Excel in 12 or 24 months.
Replit CEO: Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified & Why Coding Models are Plateauing | Amjad Masad · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:14 Amjad Masad They have a lot of Excel sheets, a lot of manual work.
Insights from Coatue's Growth Investor Lucas Swisher · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:19 Lucas Swisher 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.
- ▶ 50:03 Lucas Swisher Live in Excel all day, and you are like just missing the forest through the trees.
OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:55 Harry Stebbings That's where I think, like, Claude has done well in terms of the packaging they've done, like Claude for legal, Claude for Excel, where you can implement it and have a DCF model.
Legora CEO, Max Junestrand: $7M ARR in a Day | Harvey vs Legora: Is a Legal AI Winner Takes All? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:26 Max Junestrand But in our case, I actually like to think of it synonymous to the way that accountants had to learn Excel or
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:24 unnamed speaker If you're doing all the other knowledge work that those of us who aren't coders do, instead of bringing the AI to the Excel spreadsheet, which is what Copilot tried to do with Microsoft, you bring all these tools into the cloud space, into… 2 times in the scene