Microsoft Excel, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft Excel comes up
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
From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 2:46 Abhinav Asthana Like he was like, kind of, I think he mastered Microsoft Excel to such an extent that eventually you could just press a button and he would get all his work done.
Building a $4B data platform: Inside dbt Labs' unconventional path | Tristan Handy (Founder & CEO)
- ▶ 19:18 Tristan Handy You can see that in Excel or Tableau or other products that like existed before that.
How Figma taps into taste, simplicity, and storytelling | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO)
- ▶ 9:35 Yuhki Yamashita Like for example, at Microsoft, I started and it was very much about the super detailed spec, um, where if you were the PM, you could be the PM just on control Z or, you know, undo feature of Excel or something.
How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Crossbeam, RJMetrics, Stitch Data)
Building products that delight customers | Adam Nash (Daffy, Wealthfront, LinkedIn, eBay, Apple)
Mastering modern entrepreneurship | Steve Blank (Author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany)
- ▶ 27:47 Steve Blank And the, the first step is when I teach students and you ask them for an Excel spreadsheet, every one of their spreadsheets have a five-year plan that looks like this.
How to leverage intuition, customer support, and raw effort | Colin Zima (Omni & Looker)
- ▶ 18:11 unnamed speaker And so like, that's the philosophy that we have is like, if someone wants me to help them write SQL, or like, I don't know, debug something in Excel, like I'll go do something I do support for other people's products in Slack, because I…