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