Microsoft Excel, every mention
19 scenes (said by Ben Gilbert) · ← back to Microsoft Excel
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Ben Gilbert 19David Rosenthal 15Steve Ballmer 3Doug DeMuro 2Packy McCormick 1Howard Marks 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft Excel comes up
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 45:28 Ben Gilbert Their whole thing at first was, we're not gonna make a better spreadsheet than Excel, so if we put it in the web, it has to be about sharing collaboration.
- ▶ 45:54 Ben Gilbert You built your big model in Excel.
Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:12:58 Ben Gilbert And on top of that, someone was tracking some one-off rebates in a separate Excel file.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:35:42 Ben Gilbert The other way into Now Assist so it can automatically generate office files like PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets directly from assets and knowledge in the ServiceNow platform.
- ▶ 3:18:33 Ben Gilbert Hmm, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- ▶ 3:58:09 Ben Gilbert What users want is we have a good version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint that people can run on their iPads, and we've decided not to ship it to try and advantage Surface and other Windows eight devices.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 32:49 Ben Gilbert Who ran Excel and was an executive overseeing office for a long time in the early days.
- ▶ 2:32:08 Ben Gilbert The Excel team is to focus on GUI.
- ▶ 2:32:10 Ben Gilbert The whole marketing message is Excel on a Mac is better than Lotus one, two, three on a PC.
- ▶ 2:33:38 Ben Gilbert By 1988 or 89, it was Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- ▶ 2:33:50 Ben Gilbert And so you don't have the ability to do this, like, very nice copy-paste from an Excel table and just paste that into Word.
- ▶ 3:02:28 Ben Gilbert People are doing their work in Excel.
- ▶ 3:08:04 Ben Gilbert All the employees wanted to use Excel and Word, and they just had to figure, they were doing it anyway.
- ▶ 3:50:52 Ben Gilbert So a lot of the keyboard shortcuts in Excel to this day are there because they were originally the Lotus one, two, three shortcuts, and they wanted people to have the same muscle memory that just worked.
- ▶ 3:57:51 Ben Gilbert You know, when Microsoft has an install base of a hundred million people using Excel, in this episode, let's just say ten million people who were using Excel, and suddenly some
- ▶ 4:00:44 Ben Gilbert And I worked on a shared experiences team that would check things in that would be a dependency that Word, Excel, PowerPoint, all of them took on the shared code.
- ▶ 4:17:44 Ben Gilbert Pete, I think ran Excel.
Nvidia: The GPU Company (1993-2006) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:41:23 Ben Gilbert Yeah, it reminds me of the people that do, like, the crazy cool art in Microsoft Excel by, like,
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- ▶ 2:32:10 Ben Gilbert So you, you, you've got this concept of the not boring flywheel, um, which I wanna say any, it's, you can draw, it's kind of like you can make an Excel spreadsheet say anything.