Microsoft Excel

“85% of the market still operates on Excel.”

“Excel is a proof that non-coders also have to program, right? Programming is really powerful. And it's the tool that gives all of the non-coders a really powerful programming you know, ability.”

“All of the vendors were replacing Microsoft Excel as the tool that most companies use for budgeting and planning. We actually embraced Microsoft Excel as the grid technology in our software, so we kept people in a very familiar environment, and you know, we us…”

“Far and away, the first thing to point out is the first version of Microsoft Excel was for the Mac.”

“Excel is the world's first graphical spreadsheet program, and that's why it wins, and that's why it's so important.”

“And so I'm not sure this has ever been publicly disclosed before, but Apple spent just as much marketing Excel as Microsoft did. They matched Microsoft's marketing spend with their own campaign for it and split the bill.”

“Old observation that most spreadsheets don't have any formula. Most people use Excel to make tables, not to make, not for financial calculations.”

“To me, it's actually the most important software to ever have been made.”

“I was in touch with larger organizations and they had one person you know, employed just for pulling data from LinkedIn, visualizing it in Excel. And this, you know, this sucks, this costs a lot of time and it's also very expensive to do.”

“She is making courses and she is making six figures a month off this thing. So she's making Single digit millions a year. She has a few days of the year where she's made six feet over a 100,000 dollars on a day in course sales.”

“If you go to Teachable's top courses, Udemy's top courses, learning to master Excel is always in the top, like, 10 earning courses.”

“So you used to say that if you do file new in Excel, and you get all those different suggestions for different templates, each of those becomes a company.”

“The difficult thing about competing against a spreadsheet, and probably other products like that, is that a spreadsheet is just endlessly flexible. Right? There's nothing you can't do in a spreadsheet.”

“What do you use Microsoft Excel for in your business? Cause whatever using Excel for, you can find solutions to.”

“The vast majority of the world today is doing it on Excel and exactly was created to create software to help drive the millions and millions of dollars that people pay and use to pay compensation out”

“Inside there was like a paper return survey, because we still didn't have a website, and so it was a piece of paper that was like an Excel thing that had all the items, and then you would fill out with words what you were going to keep, what you weren't going …”

“A relational database is basically like Microsoft Excel on steroids. If you take Microsoft Excel, and you've got tables and rows, and you've got, you know, columns, and it's kind of like a relational database, but what a relational database does is give you an…”