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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Microsoft Excel comes up on Top Founders, the a16z Podcast, the MAD Podcast, 20VC, Another Podcast
AI Safety Timeline Takeover, Bending Spoons Acquires Miro, iPhone Duo Reactions | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:20 John Coogan And then Airtable felt like the modern, you know, Excel sheet.
Inside the Race to Measure Frontier Intelligence
Why the World Order Is Collapsing and American Power Is Rising
- ▶ 12:49 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Send Felix an email like, take these comments and turn them for me, or update my tracker with the context of these emails, and Felix sends back finished PowerPoint decks, Excel models, and sourced research.
The "Kiss of Death" That Kills 90% of Startups | Nikhil Gupta, ArmorCode
- ▶ 24:39 Nikhil Gupta I'm going to get from the other ones, right?
Bogg Bag: Kim Vaccarella. The $100 Million Business She Almost Abandoned
- ▶ 35:11 Kim Vaccarella I put together an order form that I probably did on Excel or Microsoft.
Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- ▶ 29:34 Alex Rampell Yeah, so Amit took over, we implemented, he was very, very excited, but, uh, and I remember I, I, I came up in Microsoft, I think I did this in Microsoft Word or Excel, like, here's our pricing sheet, because we needed the pricing sheet,…
Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive
Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck, America's Debt Crisis, Cancer Vaccine
- ▶ 17:00 David Friedberg Excel, no one's gonna go rebuild Excel.
- ▶ 1:03:51 Jason Calacanis Don't use Excel. 5 times in the scene
Ex-NVIDIA Engineer: Why AI Is About to Get 1000x Cheaper
- ▶ 11:47 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Send Felix an email like, take these comments and turn them for me, or update my tracker with the context of these emails, and Felix sends back finished PowerPoint decks, Excel models, and sourced research.
Can AI revolutionize grid operations?
How I Use Skills + AI Agents to Run My Life
- ▶ 31:17 Greg Isenberg You know, in software in general, it always starts single player because, um, like the example you use, Microsoft Docs or Excel or something like that.
What Happens When the AI Boom Runs Out of Money · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 15:14 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Send Felix an email like, take these comments and turn them for me, or update my tracker with the context of these emails, and Felix sends back finished PowerPoint decks, Excel models, and sourced research.
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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:14 Stéphane Danzy We were first in bringing AI in Excel and Sheet way before Copilot, way before Gemini and Sheet.
- ▶ 11:02 Nathan Latka So my blunt question to you, with all due respect, why would people use GPT for work when I can just put Claude in Excel?
He spent $150K on brand before he had a product—closed $1.5M ARR in 1 month. | Endra
- ▶ 20:13 Niklas Lindgren And then they need to ingest that into an Excel file to then calculate, like, how much load do I have on this panel?
AI deployment
- ▶ 11:05 Benedict Evans You've probably never even seen Excel, for God's sake, and you think that the world is just going to change completely in 18 months, and so then you think, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:32 Benedict Evans Some of them do in some narrow specific places, like will I still do that in SAP or will, because it's too hard to do it in Excel, maybe now I can do it in flawed.
- ▶ 24:44 Benedict Evans You unbundle Excel, you unbundle email, you unbundle Google and SAP and the Salesforce and Workday, and then you turn, and very often, and you turn them into a new bundle, and you identify tasks or projects or problems that people didn't…
Everyone Is Still Undersizing the AI Market | Eric Vishria · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 12:40 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Excel models and sourced research.
Building the Intelligence Engine for Finance and National Security with Shaun Modi of Capitol AI
- ▶ 1:22 Shaun Modi So those automations can be things like PowerPoint due diligence documents, Excel workbooks, interactive web applications.
He lost his first 5 deals—built the next Looker, raised $250M | Omni
- ▶ 4:42 Colin Zima Write SQL, use Excel, do pivot tables, and also enterprise BI and embedded all in one platform. 2 times in the scene
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. 2 times in the scene
How to Build Autonomous, Long-Horizon AI Agents | Basis
- ▶ 7:28 Mitch Trojanowski Feature, you know, like implement some feature in your, in your repo or asking it to go and, you know, make a big Excel workbook.
- ▶ 28:38 Mitch Trojanowski You can, things like is the Excel 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:55 Mitch Trojanowski Um, you know, you have to compile them all into certain, at least today into workbooks of certain types, which are like big excels.
- ▶ 1:09:01 Mitch Trojanowski Excel models in the world is honestly not that dissimilar either, so I think there's a lot of potential, potential backgrounds for it.
How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn
- ▶ 17:41 David Cahn And so just this idea, I think in an Excel spreadsheet or in a chart, it's easy to show exponential scaling, but then in the physical world, exponential scaling is very challenging.
Why the Markets Are Pricing AI Wrong | Gavin Baker · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 12:23 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Excel models and sourced research.
Reinventing Insurance Through AI with Shaju Puthussery & Deepak Ramaswamy of Lightspun
- ▶ 25:59 Kristian Marquez I think of, um, I think of AI now as a tool the same as Excel.
OpenAI’s Vision for the AI Super App — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI
- ▶ 21:55 Shawn Wang Oh, that's the Excel thing. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:51 Shawn Wang There's Excel, there's PowerPoint, there's Docs, you know, the grand trio of work. 2 times in the scene
Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:31 Blake Scholl Imagine a whole bunch of engineering specialists, each working in an Excel spreadsheet on their own discipline, and then handing off the results of analysis from one engineer to another.
Sam Altman on AGI, Compute, and Human Agency · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 10:03 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Send Felix an email like, take these comments and turn them for me, or update my tracker with the context of these emails, or run the ability to pay math on this buyer, and Felix sends back finished PowerPoint decks, Excel models, and…
Worked out of a police department unpaid for a year—built a $6.8B company | Peregrine · PMF Show
- ▶ 5:00 Ben Rudolph Think dozens and dozens of Excel files, different time zones, messy data.
- ▶ 16:33 Ben Rudolph I got two free crime analysts who know how to write software and work with Excel really well.
Most people and companies aren't tool-builders
- ▶ 5:31 Benedict Evans So I think the, well, I think the answer to that, and this kind of comes back to the counter argument to all this, is how many, like, 50 person company departments run on a 10 meg Excel file? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:08 Benedict Evans It was great, but that didn't replace every other piece of software or neither did Excel. 4 times in the scene
How Gamma pulled off their AI pivot | Jon Noronha (Co-founder and CPO of Gamma)
- ▶ 29:46 Jon Noronha So Excel is such a dominant tool for spreadsheets and I love Excel. 8 times in the scene
Mark Cuban on the AI Bubble: Who Actually Gets Wiped Out?
- ▶ 14:40 Mark Cuban But if you want to start getting advanced, it's like figuring out PowerPoint used to be or Excel, right? 2 times in the scene
Why Natural Gas Will Be AI’s Next Great Shortage · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 10:19 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Send Felix an email like, take these comments and turn them for me, or update my tracker with the context of these emails, or run the ability to pay math on this buyer, and Felix sends back finished PowerPoint decks, Excel models, and…
FDE: The $1M/Year AI Job Explained
- ▶ 17:59 unnamed speaker Some of it's in a PDF, some of it's in a screenshot, some of it's in an Excel spreadsheet, or it's buried in a forwarded thread.
The Restaurant Genius Behind Carbone, ZZ’s, Torrisi & More | Jeff Zalaznick
- ▶ 38:24 Jeff Zalaznick I had never even opened an Excel spreadsheet.
- ▶ 47:08 Jeff Zalaznick For all my VIP guests at the Mandarin Oriental, I had been building, I built my own, using my JP Morgan skills, I built my own Excel database, right, of restaurants. 2 times in the scene
We Turned Pre-Seed Into a $10 Billion Category | Gaurav Jain, Afore Capital
- ▶ 13:35 Gaurav Jain Airtable built a prosumer horizontal tool, in their case, focusing on Excel and, like, sort of making a better version of Excel, if you may.
Brian Armstrong: Bitcoin, Banks & The New Rules Of Money | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 42:11 Nikhil Kamath It's a Google Drive sheet, a Google Drive Excel sheet of a sort, where everybody has access to that drive page, and when a transaction happens, we can all see it at the same time.
Roadmap for Private Credit from Australia – Frank Danieli of MA Financial Group (EP.511)
- ▶ 17:05 Frank Danieli Excel's out the window.
How to Use AI to Make Money, Grow Your Business, and Be More Productive | Geoff Woods
- ▶ 24:22 Geoff Woods It opens up the Excel files.
Token pricing
- ▶ 18:48 Benedict Evans And Microsoft had to get everybody to switch from WordPerfect and Lotus One, Two, Three, and all the other spreadsheets that were floating around to use Office and Excel, to use Word and Excel. 2 times in the scene
How to Raise a Few Billion Dollars · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 15:27 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Take these comments and turn them for me, or update my tracker with the context of these emails, or run the ability to pay math on this buyer, and Felix sends back finished PowerPoint decks, Excel models, and sourced research.
OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts
- ▶ 23:33 Jason Calacanis Excel comes out, okay, yeah, the accounting department's having a field day with it, but it's not really affecting human resources or marketing.
Handwrytten Sends 6 Million Fake Handwritten Notes a Year and Makes $10M
- ▶ 5:04 David Wachs So on the website, you can upload an Excel sheet or you can tie us into HubSpot, Salesforce,
Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
- ▶ 21:56 Steven Sinofsky Like when, back when we were first starting to get Excel used in companies, you'll laugh at this. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:04 Steven Sinofsky It's export to Excel and export as CSV and or PDF you pick. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:09 Steven Sinofsky Well, it's also, to your earlier point, you know, expertise exists in this cloud in an organization, and, and it is the, the untapped resource of the modern era, and Aaron Levy at Box has done the, the most eloquent job of explaining…
- ▶ 58:20 Steven Sinofsky And so they were using Excel when, when the other bankers were using one, two, three, there's actually floating around on the internet is this old commercial for Excel. 3 times in the scene
Everything in Capital Markets is Downstream of Algorithms · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 13:12 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Send Felix an email like, take these comments and turn them for me, or update my tracker with the context of these emails, or run the ability to pay math on this buyer, and Felix sends back finished PowerPoint decks, Excel models, and…
XBOX Layoffs, Tesla's New Model Y, $12.8M Lottery Dispute | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 13:17 John Coogan There was a lot of lock in to Excel, Word.
Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake
- ▶ 6:51 Alex Kantrowitz So, you know, in a laptop you would use it for personal use cases, like the same laptop you would watch Netflix on, you could also use Excel and PowerPoint on. 3 times in the scene
He raised $75M—but kept his team to 21 people & pays everyone the same salary. | Cos Nicolaescu, ... · PMF Show
- ▶ 11:50 Cos "Kaz" Nicolaescu Not only were the tools not that helpful in terms of productivity, but they required so much manual work from like admin staff to go in and out of those tools, import and export and transform data, put it in Excel, resave it.
AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom’s CA Budget Lie
- ▶ 19:14 Jason Calacanis They were replaced with Excel.
The Two Harvard Dropouts Who raised $800M to take on NVIDIA · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 13:40 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Send Felix an email like, take these comments and turn them for me, or update my tracker with the context of these emails, or run the ability to pay math on this buyer, and Felix sends back finished PowerPoint decks, Excel models, and…
Senior Decision Makers: Nicholas Csicsko, Trinity Wall Street (EP.508)
- ▶ 19:33 Nicholas (Nick) Csicsko This manager specifically was very open about sharing his whole portfolio to the extent that he would just, he still does, sends his entire portfolio in an Excel file to me monthly because he doesn't have any concerns about what we would…
The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
Socialists Sweep NYC, China Catches Up in Coding, AI Memory Crunch, Micron's Blowout Quarter
- ▶ 1:38:46 Travis Kalanick They update their Excel sheet and it just moves the number up a little bit.
The Agent Cloud: Databricks’ Bet on the Future of AI — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin
- ▶ 6:12 Matei Zaharia So instead of like sending emails around or Excel sheets or phone calls, why can't you share like a view of that table in real time with them?
Investing a $120 Billion Balance Sheet with No Outside Investors · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 11:43 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Send Felix an email like, take these comments and turn them for me, or update my tracker with the context of these emails, or run the ability to pay math on this buyer, and Felix sends back finished PowerPoint decks, Excel models, and…
⚡️Every product of the future will be a living system — Ronak Malde, Trajectory.ai
- ▶ 17:30 Ronak Malde The agent attempts to do some research and then write some red lines or create an Excel spreadsheet.
Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:45 Ryan Petersen My, my first Excel, uh, my first and only financial model that I made for myself for the business got to one million of revenue, right? 3 times in the scene
This Changes Retail Forever! | Who is Rohan Manthani? | Streamoid | Startup Stories Podcast
- ▶ 10:39 Rohan Manthani And so a person didn't need to sit in an Excel file and type up, you know, all these different details.
Our Agent Negotiated a Vendor Renewal, Became a CFO and a Better SDR .. but has too many guardrails
- ▶ 20:44 Jason Lemkin And, um, oh, actually the other thing I did just as a learning, this is, I think helped you just before Sastre annual, I just uploaded in Excel, uh, or
Build-A-Bear: Maxine Clark. A Former Shoe Executive Launches a Stuffed Animal Empire
- ▶ 16:12 Maxine Clark I could use Excel.
Cloudflare CEO Predicts AI Agents Will Outnumber Humans 1,000-to-1
- ▶ 32:37 unnamed speaker I mean, I don't know if Sachin Adele was an intern, but he has that famous video of him as a product manager demoing Excel, and yeah, nothing like a company man.
Become AI Native in less than 60 mins
- ▶ 11:25 Theo Tabah It's not, I've got a new tool like Salesforce, or I've got a new tool like Excel.
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 19:51 Benedict Evans Another question is like, well, you know, that seems to be a bit like what you get if you do file new in Excel, like these are templates, and they'll take you so far, but at a certain point, you know, people outgrow the templates. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:48 Benedict Evans And then in the middle, you've got this kind of fuzzy improvised space of Excel and email and the shared file system. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:02 Benedict Evans I think the other answer to, of course, the problem here, of course, is consumer surplus, which is to say that, um, this is kind of what happened with Excel in that, you know, guess what?
Feature Differentiation Is Dead. Here's What Actually Wins Now with Lovable's Elena Verna
- ▶ 37:10 Elena Verna Whether it's improving your workflows and how the systems are connected so you're not working in Excel sheets and wasting your time there so you can actually do creative things, or whether it's creating
We Need An Ecosystem in AI, And Every Company Can Win A Place In It
- ▶ 20:51 Satya Nadella Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint.
- ▶ 29:36 Satya Nadella Even for the Excel team, for example, building the RLE in which a reward can be learned is actually one of the hardest sort of infrastructure problems.
Satya Nadella on AI: @NoPriorsPodcast x Latent Space Crossover Special at Microsoft Build 2026
- ▶ 20:00 Satya Nadella It was all email operated on it, Teams operated on it, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint.
- ▶ 28:48 Satya Nadella Even for the Excel team, for example, building the RLE in which a reward can be learned is actually one of the hardest sort of infrastructure problems.
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar: IPO, AI Rivalries, New Device, and Spending $100B+ on Compute
- ▶ 11:07 Sarah Friar Didn't know how to use Excel and it pretty much probably wouldn't hire a finance person today.
Why Impulse Raised $500M to Move Things in Space | President & COO Eric Romo · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:30 Brendan Foody It's just like the barrier to automating everything that you can do in, say, Google Workspace is how do we cover the full distribution of all of the context, i.e. messages, slacks, slides, Excel sheets, and all of the tasks, prompts, and…
He hit $1M ARR by sending 500,000 cold emails—then raised a $25M Series A in 6 days. | Mark Hughe... · PMF Show
- ▶ 40:51 Mark Hughes So I just had, like, the data room ready in Docsend, like, our, like, head of operations and finance, like, like, he's a wizard with Excel, something that I'm not the best at.
Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?
- ▶ 49:14 Bill Gurley Like Claude for Excel.
- ▶ 1:14:51 Chamath Palihapitiya Good luck making drugs out of an Excel spreadsheet.
Legendary Investor Dan Loeb on AI, Credit, & Third Point’s $25B Strategy · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 13:21 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Send Felix an email like, take these comments and turn them for me, or update my tracker with the context of these emails, or run the ability to pay math on this buyer, and Felix sends back finished PowerPoint decks, Excel models, and…
OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:33 unnamed speaker Being an agentic, uh, an agentic expert should be like Excel in 12 or 24 months.
Watts, Wafers, and the Future of AI Infra | Gavin Baker · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 13:18 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Send Felix an email like, take these comments and turn them for me, or update my tracker with the context of these emails, or run the ability to pay math on this buyer, and Felix sends back finished PowerPoint decks, Excel models, and…
The Man Behind Grand Theft Auto 6: Strauss Zelnick
- ▶ 1:22:31 Strauss Zelnick I'm not, you know, I'm not doing Excel spreadsheets.
Inside Anthropic's $100 Billion Al Compute Commitment | CFO Krishna Rao · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 11:27 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Send Felix an email like, take these comments and turn them for me, or update my tracker with the context of these emails, or run the ability to pay math on this buyer, and Felix sends back finished PowerPoint decks, Excel models, and…
How Brian Chesky Is Redesigning Airbnb for the AI Era · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 16:56 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Send Felix an email like, take these comments and turn them for me, or update my tracker with the context of these emails, or run the ability to pay math on this buyer, and Felix sends back finished PowerPoint decks, Excel models, and…
Neural Computers, GameStop’s $55B eBay Offer | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:44 John Coogan If you're really working on Wall Street, you might have like CapIQ or Bloomberg plugging into a sheet, an Excel sheet that then can build you a comparison table and do like comps. 2 times in the scene
How this 1st-time founder went from closing customers for $500 a month to $300,000 a year. | Sean... · PMF Show
- ▶ 25:17 Sean McCarthy What we see is that historically, maybe they're pulling down an Excel spreadsheet, doing some sort of manipulation, and uploading it somewhere else, where obviously
Box CEO on AI Agents & Why Enterprise Can't Keep Up | a16z
- ▶ 34:25 Steven Sinofsky And I, I think like there was a moment at the internet that, that I really was thinking about when, when you guys were, when I was seeing the timescale difference, which was suddenly the eight million quadrillion pages of how to use Word…
Legendary Trader Paul Tudor Jones on AI Risk, Bubbles and Buffett · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 13:01 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Send Felix an email like, take these comments and turn them for me, or update my tracker with the context of these emails, or run the ability to pay math on this buyer, and Felix sends back finished PowerPoint decks, Excel models, and…
Alex Sloane & Matt Perelman – Buy-and-Build Playbook in the Core Economy at GSP (EP.499)
- ▶ 41:06 Alex Sloane In Microsoft Excel, every roll-up looks easy, but in reality, operations are hard.
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