Google Sheets

“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. You probably can build it internally. And there's a lot of software that actually looks like a Google sheet or a spreadsheet wit…”

“No, no, it's terrible. Like it's terrible. And it's so odd cause you can in Gemini access your sheets and do stuff to them much more effectively than if you are in Gemini in sheets And actually trying to do any kind of work”

“We rewrote Google Sheets because it's a crazy scale. And so, you know, if you have something that has a hundred million plus users, which is what it had at the time, I think it's now like a billion users.”

“That industry just hasn't yet moved to that team productivity, but it will absolutely. And it's kind of repeating the journey of overall software that took like, 20 years. We're just now compacting it in, in two years where again, first there was desktop Excel…”

“I believe Zapier is a good place to go and find those kinds of opportunities. So if you go to Zapier and you check, for example, the most common Zapps, you will see that pair of two applications, for example, and I will have some QuickBooks and Sheets. There's…”

“And the third point is that we really systemize the business from day one as in writing operating procedures like SOP. So not only do we have pretty well functioning company, but also it's documented. And we did that from day one, basically. Maybe because that…”

“I think that what you can get done in Google Sheets is incredible, and people should go on YouTube and realize you can run an entire company's dashboard in Google Sheets.”

“As a rule of thumb, I have never seen in my life an Excel plan or a Google Sheets plan that had dozens or maybe 20 pages or tabs where it actually made sense. None. I've seen a lot of these, but I think they are all just really poorly done. If anybody wants to…”

“There is no such a thing as opinion-free software. The fact that Google Sheets is built the way it is changes how you write, how you think, how you, like, imagine the world.”

“Excel is still the main way that spreadsheets are done around the world. I bet a lot of listeners use Google Sheets. We do, too. We love it. Also use Excel, but if you do use Google Sheets, you are in the minority.”

“Lately, for example, one thing I've done is all of the learnings, I have them in my Google sheets with What did we learn? Some tags and stuff like that. And I created like a GPT from it.”

“You need to get really good at presenting your work, and you need to be really, really loud about it, but you have to be great at presenting your work, Making presentations, writing stuff, controlling the Google Sheets, and making them look presentable, and ma…”

“When it comes to like sales pipeline in particular, share a Google sheet with the companies that you want to speak to, the specific person within the company, hyperlink, hyperlink their LinkedIn. So it's super easy for me to go. Oh shit. Actually, I do know th…”

“One of the things that we do at Sequoia now is every Tuesday, Every single person writes down their most important thing for the week. And we share it. We like literally have it on a Google sheet. Every person, what is the most important thing you are doing th…”

“Oftentimes what you want to do is make sure you have the right process Before you put it in the system, right? Like you need to define the sales methodology before you put it in the system. You need to define like, and so what you will likely do is you will do…”

“Like someone like Blake Burge, who authentically writes threads on Excel and Google sheets and creates new, new content, you know, in the game format, like in threads, you know, not only is he able to like build an audience of 400,000 people in like two years,…”

“Sheets and Excel break down much, much earlier than Airtable does because we actually have, you know, kind of the app platform foundations. We have a relational database. You can scale up you know, a more complex workflow”

“That's actually a limitation of Google Sheets. If you try and make updates to Google Sheets any faster than that, Google starts to rate limit you.”

“Webflow, you know, like was very we built a lot on Webflow and Google Sheets. Actually, Google Sheets would be number one for us.”

“The difference would be that we work with the legacy systems at companies rather than have to implement something completely new, AKA Excel, Google Sheets.”

“And it's not that you move from Outlook to Gmail. It's that you stop sending email. And it's not that you move from Excel to Google Sheets. It's that you're not emailing spreadsheets around anymore. It's that you move to software that kind of captures what tha…”

“The other add-on I use is called Supermetrics which is it pulls in data from SQL and stuff like that. I'm, I bet you they do close to eight figures a year in, in revenue.”

“Some people from Google reached out and then they said that they are planning to launch this Google sheets, add on gallery. And I asked if I want, would I want to be one of the first add-ons to be featured in that gallery. And guess what? Actually, I said no t…”

“Now there are hundreds of different add-ons for Google Sheets and for any new entrant, it's very difficult to get to the top anymore and gain traction there.”

“You can take a Google sheet full of data and layouts and turn that into a progressive web app that feels like a native app on your phone in literally minutes.”

“Google docs or seeing what people are doing in sheets. It's just so much faster and smoother that I tend to lean to using those tools over notion, even though notion has those things built in.”

“Because our first round of applications was an embedded Squarespace form that went into a Google spreadsheet that pretty soon had 900 rows in it with 30 columns, and then we had to hook into Zapier to send a confirmation.”

“Depending on the stage, obviously we'll use Excel. Less likely to use something like Google Sheets just because Excel is so powerful.”

“We have a business intelligence dashboard that's run through Google Sheets using Zapier that integrates all of our business data. So we have a real-time look at what's going on. So Stripe sales data, CRM, NPS scores, Google Apps.”