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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Google Sheets comes up on Top Founders, the Startup Ideas Podcast, 20VC, the MAD Podcast, My First Million
Making $$$ with Grok Bot
- ▶ 11:00 Billy Howell Do we have it in Google sheets?
- ▶ 22:33 Billy Howell It can be a Google sheet.
Why Does Google Pay Him $2M A Year?
- ▶ 5:12 Stéphane Danzy It's, uh, add-on in Excel to bring AI in Excel and Google Sheet, and then we have the service activity.
- ▶ 7:14 Stéphane Danzy We were first in bringing AI in Excel and Sheet way before Copilot, way before Gemini and Sheet. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:21 Nathan Latka It's shocking to me that Google pays you, you know, millions per year for a product for, which is document management when they have Google sheets.
Google’s AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable’s 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels China AI
- ▶ 58:15 David Sacks I remember at the peak hype for this company, people were saying like, oh, this is like a new Excel or a new Google Sheets.
Most people and companies aren't tool-builders
- ▶ 4:22 Benedict Evans A shared, a shared, um, a shared Google sheet with time codes in one column, and then comments in rows.
How Gamma pulled off their AI pivot | Jon Noronha (Co-founder and CPO of Gamma)
- ▶ 31:39 Brett Berson Like, you could argue Google Sheets is like an example of this. 2 times in the scene
Mark Cuban on the AI Bubble: Who Actually Gets Wiped Out?
- ▶ 18:15 Jason Calacanis Like, you'd just be like, I'm gonna put it in Notion, Google Sheets, whatever.
GPT 5.6 SOL IS HERE! How to use it.
- ▶ 13:06 Dan Shipper And of course the first thing we tried to do is vibe code around CRM and have it be like a combination of agent and, you know, Google sheets and stuff like that.
Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:18 Mike Mignano You gotta give up your Gmail, and your Google Docs, and your Google Sheets, and your calendar, right?
This Insanely Simple App Makes $50K/Month
- ▶ 13:42 Jake Glacer And then Google Sheets, I feel like I have to mention sort of run everything through that.
6 Exits by 24: The Demand-First Startup Sale
- ▶ 4:55 Faze Imran Then you'd have Google Sheet.
Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:40 Ryan Petersen I have a Google sheet.
Our Agent Negotiated a Vendor Renewal, Became a CFO and a Better SDR .. but has too many guardrails
- ▶ 20:53 Jason Lemkin a Google sheet, our historical financials.
What Agents That Actually Work Look Like Right Now with Replit's CEO and Founder
- ▶ 13:33 Jason Lemkin She would go manually put it in a, in a Google sheet. 2 times in the scene
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 40:33 Benedict Evans You're doing that in email in a shared Google sheet, like, because why would you buy software for that?
OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:51 unnamed speaker Here's a Google sheet.
Our AI is Hiring! Would You Work for One? And Are Autonomous Agents ... Safe? The Agents #005
- ▶ 13:38 Jason Lemkin So that instead of me struggling to find it in Salesforce, Marketo emails, Google sheets,
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:53 Cliff Weitzman Give me by the end of the day, a Google sheet with 50 people in the Bay Area that you want to be friends with.
Neural Computers, GameStop’s $55B eBay Offer | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:13 John Coogan And it could have transformed it with Excel or Google sheets under the hood.
Stop using Claude. Start using Codex?
- ▶ 24:16 Riley Brown You can connect it to Sheets.
Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
- ▶ 27:29 Sarah Sachs Model behavior engineers started with a title data specialist before I joined, when they were working with Simon on, like, Google Sheets. 2 times in the scene
⚡️ The best engineers don't write the most code. They delete the most code. — Stay Sassy
- ▶ 20:05 Stay Sassy EM I think a very good for what it's worth, heuristic for some software is if you can replace it with a Google sheet or a spreadsheet. 2 times in the scene
How AI agents & Claude skills work (Clearly Explained)
I fixed OpenClaw so it actually works (full setup)
- ▶ 59:16 Moritz Kremb And it will then go into where all of my leads are stored inside of like a Google sheet, um, which is just like this, this file basically. 2 times in the scene
Which AI Model are companies actually Paying For in 2026? | Rohit Agarwal, Portkey
- ▶ 1:09:32 Rohit Agarwal This is where I think the world changed in the last six months where people were like, it's not just Q and A, but now my agent can take actions from, it can update a Google sheet, it can send an email, it can do those things.
Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
- ▶ 26:59 Benedict Evans And Frame.io is unbundling Google Sheets and Dropbox. 3 times in the scene
Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 4:06 Olivia Moore They're adding AI to, uh, Gmail, Sheets, Calendar.
- ▶ 11:03 Anish Acharya The existing product services, like Sheets or Docs, there's just so much, one sort of momentum and inertia from the past, but then management overhead around those, it's harder for them to do anything other than the most obvious…
AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
- ▶ 31:05 Ranjan Roy Like the Excel add in and Google sheets that you can use it directly in there, which still why Gemini is not great within the Google workspace environment is ridiculous to me.
He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
- ▶ 4:31 Ryan Anderson It was basically a big Google spreadsheet and I had some basic interactions, you know, really simple automations I had built between my email and Gmail and a Google sheet. 2 times in the scene
Zero to $40K/Month With One Marketing Channel (No Social Media)
- ▶ 12:54 unnamed speaker So now you can just set a dashboard, either in Google Sheets, Data Studio, or any tool that you like, and start tracking the cost of acquisition,
The Top 5 Issues Managing Multiple AI Agents in Production
- ▶ 29:07 Amelia Ibarra It doesn't know my Google Sheets login.
What is Perplexity Computer?
- ▶ 30:15 Greg Isenberg Whatever you use, even if you use, like, Google Sheets as your CRM, if you have all the data and you can load it up into here and you have a computer that can go and access this, that's really cool.
Dumb iPhone Apps Are Making People Rich Again (Here’s how)
The AI Tsunami is Here & Society Isn't Ready | Dario Amodei x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 26:47 Dario Amodei We can integrate Claude into, into, you know, Google Sheets. 2 times in the scene
AI and SaaS
- ▶ 7:32 Benedict Evans And then you've got the middle case of Excel and Google sheets and email, where like we don't, haven't got a dedicated tool to do that thing.
- ▶ 21:00 Benedict Evans You're FedExing hard disks around the country, or maybe you've got a Google drive if the files aren't too big and you've got enough bandwidth, and then there's a Google sheet with time codes and comments and a whole bunch of email, and…
How Digital TEAMMATES Transform Billion Dollar Industries? | Samay Kohli of GreyOrange & Budy.ai
- ▶ 44:30 Samay Kohli So for example, when a community for us says, hey, uh, I want to do this differently with me, they would like between the digital worker sets up a Google sheet with the community, right? 4 times in the scene
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:05 Sebastian Siemiatkowski Historically, I would have brought in an animator, a designer, an accountant, a finance Google sheet guy, et cetera.
How I grew my AI startup to $3M ARR in 3 months. | Chaz Englander, Founder of ModelML · PMF Show
- ▶ 22:38 Chaz Englander Also, I remember, we literally hooked up the items database to a Google Sheet, and even the image of the item was being pulled from, like, an image URL on the Google.
From 1 Agent to 20+: The Reality of Managing Multiple AI Agents Across Your GTM
- ▶ 35:51 unnamed speaker It's porting that submission, one, to a Google Sheet, because I'm crazy, and I just like backups of everything also in Google Sheets. 2 times in the scene
The surprising advice from a founder who built 2 unicorns | Jason Cohen (WP Engine)
- ▶ 1:33:50 Jason Cohen I'd say you just give it to it and give a chart to it and say, like, make this into a table that I can paste, like literally say that I can paste into Google Sheets and it will do in a way that literally you can copy and it will actually… 2 times in the scene
I got a private lesson on Claude Cowork & Claude Code
Charisma Expert: 5 Ways To Project Confidence (Even When You Don’t Feel It) | Dr. Shadé Zahrai
- ▶ 58:45 Dr. Shadé Zahrai It's a Google sheet.
Artificial Analysis: The Independent LLM Analysis House — with George Cameron and Micah Hill-Smith
- ▶ 7:21 Shawn Wang Or a Google sheet where you just like copy and paste the numbers from every paper and just post it up there.
It took him 4 years to launch—then he hit $1M ARR in 30 days. | Siqi Chen, Founder of Runway · PMF Show
Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:27 Matt Fitzpatrick I don't think anyone, and I think there was a lot of Google Sheets in that era, and you've seen some comments on it. 2 times in the scene
AI Enterprise - Databricks & Glean | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 24:57 Ali Ghodsi Like, you know, uh, you know, Google Sheets versus Excel is like, huge religious battle inside our company.
#2287 AI made a “no code” founder into a coder
- ▶ 8:17 Ben Tossell So I managed to put like a Webflow site with Zapier on the back, like as the API connector, and then Google Sheets or Airtable is like the database.
Google Pushes OpenAI, Bezos Returns, AI’s No. 1 Hit
- ▶ 23:15 Ranjan Roy Cause like, have you, do you ever use Gemini in docs or sheets? 4 times in the scene
Google Gemini 3 Reactions, Google Antigravity, Anthropic-Nvidia-Microsoft Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:04 unnamed speaker You have sheets, and then you stuff a Gemini thing over here.
20Product: How AI Changes Product Design | Does the Design Phase Become Irrelevant in a World of Vibe Coding | The Five Pillars of Truly Great Product Design with Carl Rivera, Chief Design Officer at Shopify
- ▶ 4:55 Harry Stebbings Last night, I saw your comment on the G sheet last night, and it was like, I don't know who this is, and I'm like, Kai, have you done me a fucking bad one?
#2283 How Dan Shipper uses AI to build artisanal AI apps
- ▶ 31:48 Andrew Warner And Google Sheets templates for it.
OpenAI’s Risky Browser Bet, Amazon’s Mass Automation Plan, Clippy’s Back
- ▶ 14:05 Alex Kantrowitz Cheat spreadsheet. 2 times in the scene
#2282 Neil Patel’s insanely powerful AI sales machine
- ▶ 45:31 unnamed speaker In Google Sheets, and then you send the email.
No Priors Ep. 137 | With Warp Co-Founder & CEO Zach Lloyd
- ▶ 10:03 Zach Lloyd Like I, you know, I've worked on one of those apps, Google sheets and just like,
5 AI Tools I’d Use to Make $1M (w/o employees, money, or time)
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
- ▶ 4:21 Harry Stebbings Google Sheets, you led engineering there, rewrote it from the ground up, is what I was told in my extensive referencing, which as a venture investor is almost fuck all, because we don't do diligence these days. 5 times in the scene
Genspark's Super AI Agent is INSANE
- ▶ 19:38 Greg Isenberg Um, but like, I need more of a lightweight Excel, uh, Google Sheets type of experience that is hooked up to an LLM. 2 times in the scene
Is the AI Boom About to Break Security? — With Grady Summers, CEO of Netwrix
- ▶ 27:30 Alex Kantrowitz You know, I had a funny thing that happened to me a little while back where a PR agency shared with me a Google spreadsheet by accident that had their, uh, entire, it was basically their CRM, a list of hundreds of reporters, the notes…
Episode 802 | Marketing Not Scaling, Where to Publish Content, an...
- ▶ 19:42 Rob Walling That is not worth it because people can just go to, it's easier to just go to Excel, go to a calculator, go to a Google sheet, do it in their head. 2 times in the scene
He quit Google & his 1st startup failed—but his 2nd grows at $1M ARR every 10 days. | Zach Llyod,... · PMF Show
- ▶ 3:01 Zach Lloyd I built a lot of Google's spreadsheet product, which was cool, and then by the time I left Google, I was a principal engineer, and I was leading engineering for the whole, uh, Google Docs team, which was pretty cool.
Tira, Bombay Shaving Co., Inde Wild | WTF is Fueling India’s Beauty & Skincare Revolution? | Ep. 25 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 2:29:05 Bhakti Modi I know that me and I have this Google sheet where we came up with names like Sorbet, Blush, and then.
What Vibe Coders Wish They Knew Sooner
- ▶ 11:19 Cody Schneider So if I reach out to a hundred people and actually let's do this in a Google sheet, just to like show like fake data.
#2279 How are there so many AI agencies?
- ▶ 24:15 Rob Howard Um, and the other thing is like, honestly, Google sheets can do a lot of this stuff, right? 2 times in the scene
#2278 How to build a $15M/year AI company.
- ▶ 13:29 Pavel Dolezal So, uh, it's a hurdle, you know, like you see all these nice demos with agents and everybody, you know, but like, if you look under the hood, what they are actually doing there, you know, using Excel or Google spreadsheet and maybe Google…
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 32:26 David Rosenthal So the next big web apps following Gmail were maps, docs, and spreadsheets.
- ▶ 42:05 David Rosenthal Docs and spreadsheets.
- ▶ 42:30 David Rosenthal Docs and spreadsheets hit Microsoft right where it hurts.
- ▶ 43:56 Ben Gilbert Yeah, Jonathan Rochelle, the founder of the company that would be acquired that would become Google Spreadsheets.
- ▶ 44:14 Ben Gilbert And when the Sheets team came in, it was truly an open question of, can we make it so you and another person can party on the same very basic spreadsheet at the same time?
- ▶ 47:33 David Rosenthal Running docs and sheets, the incremental load to Google's infrastructure was trivial compared to search.
- ▶ 50:34 David Rosenthal Yeah, I mean, I think if you look at users of docs or sheets or slides, it's in the billion-ish, five hundred million, billion range for each of those.
- ▶ 52:04 David Rosenthal He would go on to manage all of Docs and Sheets, and I think he actually managed Maps at some point, too.
- ▶ 53:13 David Rosenthal On the back of the success of maps, docs, spreadsheets, really starts to inform Google's strategy here, and specifically they've seen, hey, we can acquire
- ▶ 3:51:23 Ben Gilbert Famously, I mean, that, that run in the 2010, aside from the big ones, from YouTube, from Android, from DoubleClick, from AdMob, there was also what became Google Groups, Spreadsheets, Docs, Blogger, they bought Applied Semantics with the…
He Bootstrapped Wrike to $10M ARR—then exited for $2.2B. | Andrew Filev, Founder of Wrike & Zencoder · PMF Show
- ▶ 32:19 Andrew Filev So, so they did not have, well, like they would use, uh, essentially maybe spreadsheets sometimes, maybe Google sheets, um, kind of a bunch of, um, sticks and random glue.
- ▶ 45:41 Andrew Filev We're just now compacting it in, in two years where again, first there was desktop Excel and then there was Google Sheets, right?
Weekly Recap: Mark Cuban, Kanye’s Wild Mansion Makeover, China Heads to the Moon, Money in Clipping
- ▶ 54:50 Mark Cuban Google sheets, right? 3 times in the scene
Mark Cuban on AI, Career Advice, and Running for President.
- ▶ 20:42 Mark Cuban Google Sheets, right? 3 times in the scene
Making $$$ with Voice AI agents and SaaS (my little secret)
- ▶ 18:50 Greg Isenberg Just like a very more, a very, uh, clean way of dealing with people are sick, kids get sick, and they get sick all the time, and wouldn't it be great if it just automatically updated the database into a Google Sheet,
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The end of Microsoft Excel's 40-Year Dominance? (Shortcut AI is INSANE)
- ▶ 0:14 Greg Isenberg It's this AI app that plugs into Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, and suddenly the tedious stuff becomes magic.
Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- ▶ 2:42:04 unnamed speaker It's like different apps that might be a Google sheet or something else.
My Agent Army Brings Me $500,000 Per Month (Exploding SaaS)
- ▶ 4:59 Romain Torres So it's a lot about scrolling social media, selecting some people based on some criteria, adding them to a Google sheet and then reaching out.
Meet the Hidden Agent Builder Turning Simple Prompts into Profit
- ▶ 21:10 unnamed speaker Like if you just want to send an email, send a message to Slack, add a row to a Google sheet, I think ultimately that's going to be built into the AI chat apps.
This AI Agent creates 1000+ SEO Pages in 52 min (Claude + MCP + Cursor)
- ▶ 30:35 unnamed speaker and it's spitting out like a Google sheet.
How I Built It: $9K/Month Micro-SaaS
- ▶ 0:53 Leandro Zubrezki Scene to Sheets is an add-on that runs on the sidebar of Google Sheets and allows users to sync their Notion databases to Google Sheets. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:48 Leandro Zubrezki So what happened four years ago, I was building an integration between Google Sheets and another service. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:38 Leandro Zubrezki Apps Script is a language from Google services that allows you to extend Google Docs, Sheets, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:04 Leandro Zubrezki I just wanted the data to be there in sheets.
- ▶ 10:04 Leandro Zubrezki And so I started to think about what kind of blog posts I could write that users could find interesting and related to notion and Google sheets.
Quadratic: The AI Spreadsheet
- ▶ 3:50 Shawn Wang By the way, I'll say it, like, you can't do this in Google Sheets. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:28 David Kirkos Uh, we have similar formula set to Excel and Google Sheets.
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