Microsoft Excel, every mention
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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?