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.