Microsoft Excel, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft Excel comes up
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
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
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
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.
AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom’s CA Budget Lie
- ▶ 19:14 Jason Calacanis They were replaced with Excel.
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.
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.
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.
Inside America’s AI Strategy: Infrastructure, Regulation, and Global Competition
- ▶ 13:46 David Sacks So whether it's like Excel models, PowerPoints, websites, you name it, knowledge workers are now able to generate
Satya Nadella on AI’s Business Revolution: What Happens to SaaS, OpenAI, and Microsoft?
- ▶ 9:04 Satya Nadella You put an Excel spreadsheet, put some numbers, sent it in email, everybody entered numbers, and you had a forecast.
- ▶ 27:13 Satya Nadella I mean, even with the PCs, in fact, if you think back at it, the lawyers brought Word in, and then finance bought Excel in, and then email came, and then it became standard issue.
Senator Rand Paul: Tariffs, Debt, China, and a Warning for America
- ▶ 37:54 Chamath Palihapitiya This is just me doing some addition in an Excel spreadsheet.
AI Doom vs Boom, EA Cult Returns, BBB Upside, US Steel and Golden Votes
- ▶ 1:01:54 Chamath Palihapitiya So let's ignore the CBO's kind of brittle math and the Excel that they post on their website.
DOGE kills its first bill, Zuck vs OpenAI, Google's AI comeback
- ▶ 1:10:29 Chamath Palihapitiya Actually, let's pick, let's pick on Excel because maybe that's like. 4 times in the scene
E173: Google buying HubSpot? FTX depositors not made whole, AI job fears, Ukraine joining NATO
- ▶ 57:57 David Friedberg As opposed to, Hey, I got to go build the Excel spreadsheet and check the formula in every cell and do all the manual.
E172: SBF gets 25 years, Trump's meme stock, RFK Jr picks VP, Biden's 2025 budget & more
- ▶ 11:51 Chamath Palihapitiya When I had my one and only interaction with SPF, which was over a zoom, I asked for a model and this arrogant ding dong that worked for him sent me like a five line Excel spreadsheet.
E161: US strikes Houthis, market instability, Q1 rate cuts in doubt, Carta's major mishap, DEI
- ▶ 30:02 Jason Calacanis It's a Google or an Excel sheet that says who owns the number of shares in a company.
E158: Global trade disrupted, Adobe/Figma canceled, realtors sued, Trump blocked
- ▶ 1:06:35 Chamath Palihapitiya And then as a result, it's only a matter of time until they can put two and two together in an Excel spreadsheet to figure out that owning 50% of a hundred million dollar company is greater than owning 18%
Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
- ▶ 2:00:17 Chamath Palihapitiya It's also the formula in, in an Excel spreadsheet that says they are nothing without the team.
E151: WW3 risk, War with Iran?, 4.9% GDP, startup failures growing, new Speaker & more
- ▶ 47:04 Jason Calacanis The rest are done on other pieces of software or even in Google sheets or literally in an Excel sheet by an attorney who is working with the company.
All-In Summit: Bill Gurley presents 2,851 Miles
- ▶ 28:57 Bill Gurley Well, that's similar to what happened with that, that there was a, there was an Excel spreadsheet in that EHR example of the features you had to have in your product.
All-In Summit: Tobi Lutke on consumer spending, teams, Amazon, AI, and more
- ▶ 17:43 Tobi Lütke I, when I implemented them in 2004, um, here's what you had to do, is you had to take the credit card, put it into an Excel spreadsheet, and upload it to an FTP site.
E130: DeSantis's Twitter Spaces, debt ceiling, Nvidia rips, state of VC, startup failure & more
- ▶ 1:02:19 Chamath Palihapitiya Because it turned out that most of the things that we use it for Excel, Microsoft word, a browser.
E126: Big Tech blow-out, Powell’s recession warning, lab-grown meat, RFK Jr shakes up race & more
- ▶ 28:28 Jason Calacanis If you didn't know how to use a computer and type and use an Excel spreadsheet or do a PowerPoint, you were done.
E124: AutoGPT's massive potential and risk, AI regulation, Bob Lee/SF update
- ▶ 1:04:35 David Friedberg Just like you could use Microsoft Word to forge letters, just like you could use Microsoft Excel to create fraudulent financial statements.
E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union
- ▶ 1:05:15 David Sacks The, the use case I saw this past week in a, in a product demo was they were showing me like an Excel spreadsheet, like a very complicated Excel spreadsheet modeling and financial asset. 3 times in the scene
E112: Is Davos a grift? Plus: globalist mishaps, debt ceilings, TikTok's endgame & more
- ▶ 1:29:42 Chamath Palihapitiya Because these guys were using Excel to do a bunch of complicated capitalization and cost accounting, made two or three years of mistakes.
E94: NFT volume plummets, California's overreach, FBI meddling, climate change & national security
- ▶ 30:51 Chamath Palihapitiya They understand how to use Excel.
E92: Adam Neumann's second act, a16z's $350M bet, housing policy, Inflation Reduction Act & more
- ▶ 1:08:35 Jason Calacanis This is what I got from this Excel spreadsheet. 2 times in the scene
E74: Market update, inverted yield curve, immigration, new SPAC rules, $FB smears TikTok and more
- ▶ 1:07:20 Chamath Palihapitiya They hire a consulting firm who uses an Excel spreadsheet to guesstimate how badly they have polluted the environment. 2 times in the scene
E19: Robinhood's GameStop decision: Why did it happen and how can it be prevented in the future?
- ▶ 52:05 Chamath Palihapitiya This is an Excel problem.