Microsoft Excel, every mention
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every year anyone Shane Parrish 3Connor Teskey 3Mario Harik 2Tobi Lütke 1Sarah Jones Simmer 1Sahil Lavingia 1Neil Pasricha 1Morgan Housel 1Kunal Shah 1Bret Taylor 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft Excel comes up
The Magic of Thinking Big | XPO CEO Mario Harik
- ▶ 31:29 Mario Harik In some cases it's an Excel spreadsheet.
- ▶ 1:20:47 Mario Harik And however, before I even ask the questions, I actually would have reviewed the Excel spreadsheets of data if I have to, to be able to look at the information and what the data is saying.
Beating the Market: Connor Teskey, CEO Brookfield Asset Management
- ▶ 8:42 Connor Teskey There's almost a false degree of precision in, in today's world of Excel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:16 Connor Teskey I, I don't know that when people think I work hard, it's, you know, I was crunching more Excel models or building more PowerPoint.
Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
- ▶ 1:52:22 Morgan Housel I think I can be like, oh, let me just pull up Excel, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna calculate this and figure it out.
Steve Wozniak: The Engineer Who Built Apple [Outliers]
- ▶ 38:58 Shane Parrish Because in Boston, Bob Frankston and Dan Bricklin had been working on something called VisiCalc, short for Visible Calculator, the world's first electronic spreadsheet, Excel's ancient ancestor. 2 times in the scene
Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
- ▶ 1:22:16 Bret Taylor And so I think that, uh, just in the same way, if you're an accountant, you know, using Excel doesn't make you less of an accountant, uh, and, um, and just because you didn't, you know, handcraft that math equation, it doesn't make the…
Matthew Dicks: The Storytelling Expert
- ▶ 1:18:21 Shane Parrish In an Excel spreadsheet, that's what you use.
Adam Robinson: Positioning Yourself For Success
- ▶ 33:33 Adam Robinson I paid some programmers to hard code what I normally do using Excel.
Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations
- ▶ 14:39 Kunal Shah So I would like teach them Excel and, and I would not know these subjects.
Sarah Jones Simmer: The Foundation of Trust
- ▶ 4:05 Sarah Jones Simmer There's this beautiful detailed Excel model, um, that like the infrastructure's there and the heart isn't.
#98 Sahil Lavingia: Observing the Present
- ▶ 28:13 Sahil Lavingia And Excel starts erroring out, and you're like, yes, like this, we can, we can do this forever if we need to.
#72 Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits
- ▶ 1:13:42 Neil Pasricha I made an Excel spreadsheet of every company I could think of that I wanted to work at, and it had also been through a hard time, a flat stock price for a decade, a PR crisis, something that would make it interesting, but also, um, that…
#41 Tobi Lütke: The Trust Battery
- ▶ 1:37:06 Tobi Lütke After I hired my first CFO, I, every single spreadsheet I got from him, um, looked really, really complicated, and was far beyond my Excel skill set, but I learned how to use the craziest Excel lookups, because I need, like, I just rebuilt…