Microsoft Excel, every mention
9 scenes (2025) · ← back to Microsoft Excel
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every year 2025 anyone Ted Seides 4David Lyon 4Jose Feliciano 3Jen Birmingham 3Stan Miranda 2Ryan Lovell 2Michael Rees 2Mark Baumgartner 2Josh Kopowitz 2Jace Auby 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft Excel comes up
Year in Review 2025 (EP.478)
- ▶ 34:54 Ted Seides Most people track it on an Excel spreadsheet.
Josh Wolfe & Brett McGurk – Venture, Geopolitics, and the Next Frontier (EP.476)
- ▶ 39:51 Josh Wolfe Google, 20 years ago, looked at Microsoft's main cash cow of Office, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Outlook, and they gave it all away for free, because they could, because they have this advertising model in search.
David Lyon – Hybrid Capital Solutions for Private Assets (EP.471)
- ▶ 10:32 David Lyon 30 years ago, we didn't have Excel.
- ▶ 14:09 David Lyon The barrier to entry was, could you figure out Excel?
- ▶ 51:16 David Lyon Just sitting in Excel saying, well, if margins got better, I don't think that's a good way to scale a fund and go through life.
- ▶ 54:18 David Lyon And it's not just, well, I took an Excel
Dave Thornton – Unlocking Venture Access Through Stock Options at Vested (EP.469)
- ▶ 2:09 Dave Thornton I was the nexus between technology and trading, so I built out the risk models and the trading models, and I automated as much of the back office machinery as I could, given that everything was Excel-based, so there were limits, but that…
Josh Koplewicz – Flexible Capital and Creative Structures at Thayer Street (EP.451)
- ▶ 5:38 Josh Kopowitz I was not someone that had been in warden doing Excel classes. 2 times in the scene
Jon Madorsky – Navigating the Evolution of Private Equity Secondaries (EP.448)
- ▶ 28:56 Jon Madorsky It might not be able to fine tune or drive a lot of the assumptions that we need the qualitative rich data that we're collecting, but to actually create and populate the Excel model is something that I can absolutely imagine AI using.