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Inside the Race to Measure Frontier Intelligence
Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- ▶ 29:34 Alex Rampell Yeah, so Amit took over, we implemented, he was very, very excited, but, uh, and I remember I, I, I came up in Microsoft, I think I did this in Microsoft Word or Excel, like, here's our pricing sheet, because we needed the pricing sheet,…
Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
- ▶ 21:56 Steven Sinofsky Like when, back when we were first starting to get Excel used in companies, you'll laugh at this. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:04 Steven Sinofsky It's export to Excel and export as CSV and or PDF you pick. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:09 Steven Sinofsky Well, it's also, to your earlier point, you know, expertise exists in this cloud in an organization, and, and it is the, the untapped resource of the modern era, and Aaron Levy at Box has done the, the most eloquent job of explaining…
- ▶ 58:20 Steven Sinofsky And so they were using Excel when, when the other bankers were using one, two, three, there's actually floating around on the internet is this old commercial for Excel. 3 times in the scene
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 19:51 Benedict Evans Another question is like, well, you know, that seems to be a bit like what you get if you do file new in Excel, like these are templates, and they'll take you so far, but at a certain point, you know, people outgrow the templates. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:48 Benedict Evans And then in the middle, you've got this kind of fuzzy improvised space of Excel and email and the shared file system. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:02 Benedict Evans I think the other answer to, of course, the problem here, of course, is consumer surplus, which is to say that, um, this is kind of what happened with Excel in that, you know, guess what?
Box CEO on AI Agents & Why Enterprise Can't Keep Up | a16z
- ▶ 34:25 Steven Sinofsky And I, I think like there was a moment at the internet that, that I really was thinking about when, when you guys were, when I was seeing the timescale difference, which was suddenly the eight million quadrillion pages of how to use Word…
Box CEO on the AI Adoption Gap | The a16z Show
- ▶ 12:12 Steven Sinofsky Well, and, you know, it was, because it hurt, physically hurt, to watch somebody suffering with bullets and numbering in Word, or trying to figure out, you know, like, oh, let me just make a two-sided, a two-axis graph in Excel.
OpenClaw, Claude Code, and the Future of Software | Peter Yang on The a16z Show
- ▶ 16:15 unnamed speaker I think Satya said this, um, which is that Excel is the most powerful or most popular programming language in the world. 2 times in the scene
Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 1:46 Olivia Moore We have Cloud in Excel, PowerPoint in Chrome, and then we have desktop apps like Cursor, Whisperflow, Granola.
- ▶ 3:16 Olivia Moore Cloud in particular has really doubled down on prosumer with things like Cowork, Cloud Code, Cloud in Excel, and PowerPoint.
Atlassian CEO on the SaaS Apocalypse, AI Agents & What Comes Next
- ▶ 53:19 Mike Cannon-Brookes Maybe the first time someone looked at Excel, they were like, wait, where do I type the paragraphs or something? 2 times in the scene
How AI Will Transform Fintech In 2026
- ▶ 42:21 unnamed speaker Add even just Goldman Sachs, and I now use them as a, as an example often, but like the, the entire firm was, uh, you know, they call the, the kind of middle and back office, the, the Federation, you know, again, these were, were folks…
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 23:15 Benedict Evans And Excel is, doesn't use, do things that a lawyer can do every day. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:15 Erik Torenberg You know, what Excel did for, for, for accountants, um, you know, we're, we're sort of AI is now doing for, for coders, um, and developers, but hasn't quite figured out that sort of, you know, daily critical workflow for, for other job…
- ▶ 35:00 Erik Torenberg I am curious, you know, when we sort of look back at this sort of, you know, platform shift, do you think that there will be another sort of iPhone-esque or Excel-esque product that kind of defines the, the, the feature, the sort of…
Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)
- ▶ 14:11 Alex Rampell Like we probably, I bet there are a lot of people here who have not opened Microsoft Excel in a year.
- ▶ 28:03 Alex Rampell Because why is it, I, I published this graph of Visicalc versus Lotus one, two, three versus Excel. 2 times in the scene
Google DeepMind Developers: How Nano Banana Was Made
- ▶ 31:55 unnamed speaker That's such a good point, because I did see a tweet of someone asking CloudSona to replicate an image on an Excel sheet, where every cell is a pixel.
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 0:41 Marc Andreessen So maybe I'm a student, um, uh, or maybe I'm just somebody, you know, I took a few coding classes and I've hacked around a little bit, or like, I don't know, I do Excel macros or something like that, but I'm like not as well as I'm not…
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 21:22 Keith Rabois Not in LinkedIn, not in Word, probably not in Excel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:49 Alex Rampell Like Microsoft Excel is Microsoft Excel for the world. 2 times in the scene
Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a $100 Billion Business
- ▶ 36:50 Ali Ghodsi They start with, hey, the revenue is this, but we could accelerate it and the multiple is so low and like, you know, in this, in my Excel sheet here, this makes perfect sense. 2 times in the scene
The Person Who Runs HR For 2 Million Federal Workers
- ▶ 30:50 Greg Barbaccia We moved, uh, from budgeting from ledgers to Excel and, you know, eventually we moved away from post into email.
Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future
- ▶ 27:53 Steven Sinofsky And, and then other people would be like, well, let me just try to implement Excel using these seven HTML tags with no script.
Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money
- ▶ 51:21 Balaji Srinivasan It can do the job, you know, but then you clad it in something and it's adding up numbers in Excel and you clad in something else and it's doing simulations for MATLAB, right?
Former Microsoft Executive Explains Where We Are in the AI Cycle w/ Anish Acharya & Steven Sinofsky
- ▶ 1:56 Steven Sinofsky It's going to replace Excel and it's going to replace all these things, but it doesn't add very well.
- ▶ 12:36 Steven Sinofsky I visited a really giant hospital in Minnesota to, to help them figure out how to use Excel within the medical profession.
Giving New Life to Unstructured Data with LLMs and Agents
- ▶ 2:09 Anant Bhardwaj And we got pulled into this gnarly problem, which is here are all my images and documents in Excel and PowerPoint.
Who's Coding Now? - AI and the Future of Software Development
- ▶ 20:57 Guido Appenzeller I mean, historically, what happened when we did similar things, say, with, with calculation, when we went from adding numbers manually to Excel, right?
Mobilizing the American Industrial Base
- ▶ 10:23 Shyam Sankar If you go to the factory floor in Detroit, they're so proud of their ERP system, but on the factory floor, they're using Excel.
Can the Military Move at Startup Speed? How the Army and Navy Are Rebuilding
- ▶ 13:25 Alex Miller But inside of them, they still had product managers and program managers who were making sure that Excel was really good. 2 times in the scene
Jensen Huang & Arthur Mensch: Why Every Nation Needs Its Own AI Strategy
- ▶ 19:49 Jensen Huang I think Excel is pretty good. 2 times in the scene
Vibe Coding is Here - How AI is Changing How We Build Online
- ▶ 27:05 unnamed speaker There are many ways to tackle the problem, but I think compared to, you know, Google of the world, which if you have used Google Docs or, you know, Excel before, 2 times in the scene
Reasoning Models Are Remaking Professional Services
- ▶ 15:36 George Sivulka You were starting to see the first, you know, first year or second year out of college at like analyst come on and be like heavy and native where they, instead of doing it and reading every file by hand and then putting things into an…
What DeepSeek Means For The Future Of AI | Tech Veterans Weigh In
- ▶ 17:48 Steven Sinofsky And the reason it's important is because it looks like Canva or, you know, it looked like Word or it looked like PowerPoint or it looked like Excel.
How AI is Reshaping Labor Markets: A $Trillion-Dollar Opportunity Explained
- ▶ 26:23 Alex Rampell Like, I don't like Excel, Word, Microsoft Edge browser looking for bad things. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:44 Angela Strange And so if we come back to compliance, lots in Excel, but if like, for instance, you've probably read the four billion dollar fine by TD and transaction monitoring, right?
Marty Chavez (Sixth Street): Finding a Single Source of AI Truth
- ▶ 11:29 Marty Chavez Object-oriented database that's going to contain our foreign exchange trading business, which is a global, inherently a global business that we can't trade out of Excel spreadsheets, and we need somebody to write a database from scratch…
Launching a New Category with Modern Treasury's Dimitri Dadiomov
- ▶ 20:58 Dimitri Dadiomov They're very, very comfortable, um, you know, spending time on doing things in, in Excel sheets and uploading CSVs to bank portals and doing so on.
Unlocking Creativity with Prompt Engineering
- ▶ 0:53 Steph Smith So will the prompt engineer be more like the highly sought after DevOps engineer or a proficiency like Excel that you find on every resume?
- ▶ 5:45 Steph Smith Is it similar to being able to process numbers in an Excel sheet?
- ▶ 18:20 Steph Smith Would you liken the ability to prompt within each of these more like the difference between Excel and Google Sheets, where if you know how to use Excel, you really can drop right into Google Sheets, and it's relatively straightforward. 3 times in the scene
The Robot Lawyer Resistance with Joshua Browder of DoNotPay
- ▶ 11:02 Joshua Browder And a lot of these hospitals, when they were complying with the law, they published their prices in like obscure PDFs and Excel documents on their website. 2 times in the scene
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
- ▶ 1:01:21 Sarah Wang Advancing from text to image to more complex workflows, such as text to SQL queries, or eventually text to Excel modeling and more. 2 times in the scene
The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
- ▶ 42:46 Chris Power But yes, it's like, even now we're sending like just Excel spreadsheet summaries of like, Hey, here's where we're at in this production run.
AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng
- ▶ 1:00:11 Steph Smith Like, I saw something recently, which was, like, an AI that helps write Excel formulas, which I thought was, like, quirky and neat.
Risk-based Contracting for Value-based Care, a Founder's Playbook
- ▶ 20:11 Roger Batnigi There's nothing more important than actually getting that defined and not just kind of conceptually, but like literally in an Excel sheet, looking at it and saying, does this look like success to you?
B2C2B in Digital Health, a founder's playbook
How Gaming is Changing the Media Landscape
- ▶ 5:20 John Riccitiello We changed over a decade ago to a solution where you use an editor like you would an Excel spreadsheet.
Imagining Our Future Through Tech
- ▶ 6:21 Frank Chen So think about today, if you wanted to build custom clothes to sell to an influencer, and you're trying to figure out what kind of clothes to build, that would probably be a lot of summer interns, a lot of Excel spreadsheets, a lot of…
Why You Should Be Optimistic About the Future
- ▶ 23:02 Marc Andreessen And if you want to have fun on your plane flights home, it's like, just go on Excel and like chart, you know, n, n squared, and two to the nth, right?
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 5:13 Steven Sinofsky In fact, it was invented for Excel and on making charts.
- ▶ 17:14 Steven Sinofsky Right, or in Excel, or in PowerPoint, and, and so we were, like, watching the sequence of events, and so in particular things that would catch our attention, like, try something, undo it, try something, undo it, try something else, undo…
- ▶ 19:05 Steven Sinofsky Well, there, we had group called Word and a group called Excel and a group across the street in Silicon Valley called PowerPoint. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:57 Steven Sinofsky And so POGO is like a, uh, it's a VB program in Excel five, uh, which is the 16 bit version of Excel that existed at the time they were shipping. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:52 Steven Sinofsky And so, I did this demo 50 times for reporters, and, and the problem we had was, the Word team was busy building more wizards, just like the Excel team was in the PowerPoint team.
a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
- ▶ 35:48 Ryan Caldbeck I'm stuck in, you know, Excel, Windows, that's, that's what I'm stuck using here.
What's Next for Education Startups in 2019 (Part II)
- ▶ 21:15 Frank Chen And then there's sort of business self-improvement, like I want to learn how to use Excel better, or I want to be a better offer-up seller, or something like that.
a16z Podcast | Dark Data in Healthcare
- ▶ 16:17 Anil Sethi It's like turning a Word document into Excel. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:28 Anil Sethi It is a early warning system, where if you digitize the data, you could literally have an Excel function, and I'm, you know, I'm trivializing it, that is scanning for populations, and where it sees a concentration of certain things…
a16z Podcast | Construction Under Tech -- Info Flows
- ▶ 1:00 Tracy Young And so the innovation at the time was running Microsoft Excel through these like seven pound tablet PCs in the field just to track issues.
a16z Podcast | Data, Insight, and the Customer Experience
- ▶ 15:13 Suhail Doshi They don't want to be just trending a graph over time, outputting it into, or putting it into Excel, then putting it into a deck.
a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- ▶ 9:37 Benedict Evans The vast majority of work that's getting done on a PC is not actually happening, constructing complex financial models in Excel, or doing stuff in InDesign, or in Xcode, or in AutoCAD.
- ▶ 12:21 Benedict Evans I need to build a model in Excel.
- ▶ 16:20 Steven Sinofsky And, you know, ok, so you, it's not a hundred percent of them that are doing Excel modeling. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:44 Benedict Evans There's a sort of a core part of the PC market that actually needs to be on a PC, because you're running Excel, or you're running Photoshop, or AutoCAD. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Putting AI in Medicine, in Practice
- ▶ 26:06 unnamed speaker I mean, it seems like even an Excel sheet would be better than a whiteboard.
a16z Podcast | Revenge of the Algorithms (Over Data)... Go! No?
- ▶ 28:24 Steven Sinofsky I mean, I, like, people, like, Excel was really great at doing math very quickly, and then one day I find myself at the Naval War College having to explain myself to a bunch of generals, like, how do we know it's right? 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Platforming the Future
- ▶ 9:04 Benedict Evans Like, you know, Excel was always going to have charts, for example.
a16z Podcast | The Storage Renaissance
- ▶ 18:19 Mike Matchett At the department level or division level in the business analyst side, you know, you're going to find lots of people who know how to use Microsoft Excel.
a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- ▶ 16:58 Steven Sinofsky And then there's this fancy version of Excel that does Windows and mouse, and you can't get data between, like, these confusing states, they exist, and, and you hear that, and just to be super clear about it, you hear all the same things…
- ▶ 29:40 Benedict Evans There is, the first is there is this core group of people who live in Photoshop or live in Excel or 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Widgetification of Everything
- ▶ 19:10 Benedict Evans Um, so if you want to open something from box or iCloud or Dropbox in PowerPoint or Excel or something, you have to jump through about five hoops and this sort of stuff that they could have cleaned up there that they haven't.
a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
- ▶ 11:25 Benedict Evans But that's kind of like, you know, Stephen, 15 years ago, saying, you know what, the charts module in Excel, we kind of, we need, we need to rebuild that.
a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
- ▶ 23:27 Benedict Evans So if your task every two weeks is to make a 35 slide sales report in PowerPoint, full of information that you've pulled from SAP, dropped into Excel, made charts, put the charts into PowerPoint, write bullet points in the PowerPoint,…
a16z Podcast | Nobody Discusses Work Software Outside of Work -- and Then There’s Slack
- ▶ 0:27 Michael Copeland Still, you find very few people enthusing about Excel over cocktails.
- ▶ 23:07 Stuart Butterfield 20 years ago when everything, you know, almost everything we bought was from Microsoft, the same VB script that we used to do Excel macros could be used to tie MS project to Outlook for task assignments.
a16z Podcast | Making the Most of the Data That Matters
- ▶ 13:43 Roman Stanek Way too long for business to actually kind of depend on it, and so, so business then goes to, uh, Excel and, and other products, um, that you might be familiar with, and, uh, I'm gonna return to that one in a minute, but. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:00 Gaurav Dhillon It's more about what could we do based on the data that we have that would help us be more successful without doing a traditional business intelligence, and it doesn't matter whether you do it on premise, in Excel, in the cloud, the…
- ▶ 19:18 Steven Sinofsky Let me turn it around and, and ask it, ask it in a little bit different way, because I think, so there were two people mentioned Excel, so that was, that was my, that was my cue to talk about Excel. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:13 Roman Stanek One of the large credit card issuers, and they have merchants, they have, you know, issuing banks, they have acquirers, so they have, most of their audience for data actually sits outside of the firewall, so instead of emailing data in, in…
a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
- ▶ 7:45 Alex Rampell There's a known watch list of people that you can't give money to, but you can't just say it's an Excel file and you go check it.
a16z Podcast | Artificial Intelligence and the 'Space of Possible Minds'
- ▶ 18:09 Azim Azhar It's called Excel. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV
- ▶ 10:56 Benedict Evans No, then, to be fair, then they show a, um, so there's a plug-in keyboard, there is a stylus, the thing itself is bigger, and it's bigger to the point that you can run two iPad apps in portrait mode next to each other, so you can have Word…
a16z Podcast | Messaging As the Interface to Everything
- ▶ 31:08 Connie Chan Um, and when you're communicating, you can use text, you can use audio, but you can also send Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, Excel.
a16z Podcast | Big Data Goes Really Big
- ▶ 16:06 Peter Levine Let me also add that, um, large organizations who have the expertise and budgets to go create on-prem data centers have a huge competitive advantage over the hundreds of thousands of small to mid-sized companies that are probably using…
a16z Podcast | Tools for How We Work Today
- ▶ 5:30 Stuart Butterfield So IRC was the one thing you had to open alongside whatever your role specific bit of software was, and that role specific bit of software might have been, um, Excel, or it might be Photoshop, or it might be, uh, our, because we were… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:50 Benedict Evans I mean, there's a classic kind of use case I always talk about, which I think of my friends in big companies who, once a week or once a fortnight, they have to go into an internal system and put out a bunch of operating data, and then drop…
a16z Podcast | Coding as Literacy
- ▶ 8:12 Chris Granger The most popular programming language in the world is Excel. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops
- ▶ 43:26 Jeff Jordan I'm back on Excel.
a16z Podcast | The Micro and Macro of Mobile
- ▶ 7:45 Benedict Evans A lot of, there's a lot of people whose job involves using PowerPoint or Excel or perhaps Word, and who would feel quite rightly that they couldn't do the tasks they need to do without it, and therefore can't do those tasks on a tablet. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Engineering a Revolution at Work
- ▶ 5:04 Benedict Evans Uh, but then there's a kind of, as you say, it's like, I think to my time working in big companies, the kind of the PowerPoint Excel paradigm, uh, 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:56 Benedict Evans We've gone from having a network drive with a more or less chaotic or sensible folder structure, and you could put everything in the project folder, and it might be Excel or Photoshop or Illustrator or any other thing or Visio or…
When Software Eats the Real (Estate) World
- ▶ 12:36 Alex Rampell They don't want to go phone calls back and forth, look at Excel spreadsheets, all of this kind of backwards stuff from 30 years ago.
AI: What's Working, What's Not
- ▶ 24:31 Frank Chen Oh my god, you saw that room full of people that were the Excel spreadsheet.
10 Year Futures (vs. What's Happening Now)
- ▶ 12:32 Benedict Evans Everybody you see here is basically a cell in a spreadsheet, and the whole building is an Excel file.
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