Microsoft Excel, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft Excel comes up
OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
- ▶ 42:29 Sherwin Wu Who doesn't code, but loves using these tools and, you know, is like an Excel wizard or something.
The new AI growth playbook for 2026 | How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year
- ▶ 45:57 Elena Verna Finally, Excel can move over.
The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen
- ▶ 38:45 Lenny Rachitsky Just like, here's an Excel spreadsheet.
Naming expert shares process for creating billion-dollar brands: Vercel, Azure, Windsurf, Sonos
- ▶ 41:54 Lenny Rachitsky I heard you guys launched a new data intake product that automates the hours of manual work that teams spend importing and mapping and integrating CSV and Excel files. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
- ▶ 31:30 Lenny Rachitsky I heard you guys launched a new data intake product that automates the hours of manual work that teams spend importing and mapping and integrating CSV and Excel files. 2 times in the scene
Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada
- ▶ 27:48 Aparna Chennapragada Bowls of Excel.
- ▶ 48:34 Lenny Rachitsky Uh, on the flip side of this question, uh, there have been, uh, probably 5000 startups that have tried to disrupt Excel, and you guys just keep winning, so something there is working really well. 6 times in the scene
How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)
- ▶ 40:19 Lenny Rachitsky I heard you guys launched a new data intake product that automates the hours of manual work that teams spend importing and mapping and integrating CSV and Excel files. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:28 Nabeel S. Qureshi But the exact same solution, they were previously kind of framing it as, uh, I think it was like supercharged Excel or something like that, and nobody was biting.
How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want? | Jerry Colonna
- ▶ 39:28 Lenny Rachitsky I heard you guys launched a new data intake product that automates the hours of manual work that teams spend importing and mapping and integrating CSV and Excel files. 2 times in the scene
The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell
- ▶ 30:47 Lenny Rachitsky I heard you guys launched a new data intake product that automates the hours of manual work that teams spend importing and mapping and integrating CSV and Excel files. 2 times in the scene
Inside monday.com’s transformation: Radical transparency, impact over output, & the path to $1B ARR
- ▶ 13:58 Daniel Larea It should be able to export it to Excel.
The things engineers are desperate for PMs to understand | Camille Fournier (“The Manager’s Path”)
- ▶ 40:16 Lenny Rachitsky I find that once you can build product through teams and not sit there all day in Excel and check in on deadlines and things like you, it's hard to give that part up.
Building a world-class data org | Jessica Lachs (VP of Analytics and Data Science at DoorDash)
- ▶ 1:07:16 Jessica Lachs So, uh, I can teach you how to build a discounted cashflow model in Excel, and I can learn how to make kick ass slides.
Lessons from a 2-time unicorn builder, 50-time startup advisor and 20-time board member | Uri Levine
- ▶ 1:09:23 Uri Levine So if you have salesforce.com, which is absolutely amazing, their reaction is going to be what's wrong with Excel.
Be fundamentally different, not incrementally better | Jag Duggal (Nubank, Facebook, Google)
- ▶ 42:56 Lenny Rachitsky One Schema intelligently corrects messy data so that your customers don't have to spend hours in Excel
Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more
- ▶ 45:07 Jason Fried They're not like they can read an Excel spreadsheet.
How to tell better stories | Matthew Dicks (Storyworthy)
- ▶ 2:59 Lenny Rachitsky One Schema intelligently corrects messy data so that your customers don't have to spend hours in Excel
- ▶ 1:07:48 Matthew Dicks What I do is I took an Excel spreadsheet, two columns, the date, and then I stretched the B column across, and in that B column, essentially the length of a computer screen, that's where I write my story.
- ▶ 1:19:09 Matthew Dicks I actually use old fashioned Excel, but yes, Google Sheets would work too. 3 times in the scene
The ultimate guide to product operations | Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles
- ▶ 52:21 Melissa Perri Sometimes those people are really good at Excel and PowerPoint, but they're not great at the Looker and BI.
Building beautiful products with Stripe’s Head of Design | Katie Dill (Stripe, Airbnb, Lyft)
- ▶ 53:54 Lenny Rachitsky One Schema intelligently corrects messy data so that your customers don't have to spend hours in Excel
Inside Etsy’s product, growth, and marketplace evolution | Tim Holley (VP of Product)
- ▶ 33:11 Lenny Rachitsky One Schema intelligently corrects messy data so that your customers don't have to spend hours in Excel
An inside look at Deel’s unprecedented growth | Meltem Kuran Berkowitz (Head of Growth)
- ▶ 19:12 Meltem Kuran Berkowitz So then you have an Excel sheet, keywords on the left, volume on the right.
The ultimate guide to Martech | Austin Hay (Reforge, Ramp, Runway)
- ▶ 2:52 Lenny Rachitsky One Schema intelligently corrects messy data so that your customers don't have to spend hours in Excel
Velocity over everything: How Ramp became the fastest-growing SaaS startup ever | Geoff Charles
- ▶ 1:14:59 unnamed speaker We just, we just got really good at like Excel and Excel shortcuts.
Lessons from scaling Ramp | Sri Batchu (Ramp, Instacart, Opendoor)
- ▶ 36:02 Sri Batchu Like you can have a financial plan, uh, in Excel and the reality, uh, can diverge quite a bit.
Storytelling with Nancy Duarte: How to craft compelling presentations and tell a story that sticks
- ▶ 49:34 Nancy Duarte Excel spreadsheet, because you're aligning around a process, and so don't feel like every single meeting needs, like, cinematic pictures of kittens, because that's not going to get you anywhere.
The ultimate guide to product-led sales | Elena Verna
- ▶ 50:24 Elena Verna It can be, uh, widgets within Salesforce or ETLs that you pipe through HubSpot Marketos into Salesforce, or it can be CRM solutions for PLG specifically that you literally deliver in Excel sheets to sales team to prototype a different…
Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Reddit, Grubhub)
- ▶ 26:15 Casey Winters So, you know, if you're not great at like Excel or Google sheets and you need to model something,
Navigating comms and PR | Lulu Cheng Meservey (Substack, Activision Blizzard)
- ▶ 1:01:17 Lulu Cheng Meservey I use a lot of Microsoft Excel, which I think is controversial.
Lessons from scaling Stripe | Claire Hughes Johnson (ex-COO of Stripe)
- ▶ 37:57 Claire Hughes Johnson Like, let me coach you how to make this Excel model.
Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator, Airbnb)
- ▶ 33:11 Gustaf Alströmer So they will do the same thing in like Excel, like a million times, like by just like tabbing, because that's the only thing that they know.
An inside look at how CNN builds product | Upasna Gautam
- ▶ 2:55 Lenny Rachitsky One Schema intelligently corrects messy data so that your customers don't have to spend hours in Excel
Leading with empathy | Keith Yandell (DoorDash, Uber)
- ▶ 2:28 Lenny Rachitsky One Schema intelligently corrects messy data so that your customers don't have to spend hours in Excel
Lessons from Airtable’s unconventional growth strategy | Zoelle Egner
- ▶ 2:54 Lenny Rachitsky One Schema intelligently corrects messy data so that your customers don't have to spend hours in Excel
How to build your product strategy stack | Ravi Mehta (Tinder, Facebook, Tripadvisor, Outpace)
- ▶ 3:39 Lenny Rachitsky One schema intelligently corrects messy data so that your customers don't have to spend hours in Excel just to get started with your product.
How to price your product | Naomi Ionita (Menlo Ventures)
- ▶ 43:15 Naomi Ionita So it's a lot of automation around the experimentation results and analysis that used to live off to the side in Excel or Jupyter Notebooks now is automated away with Epo.
Developing a growth model + marketplace growth strategy | Dan Hockenmaier
- ▶ 7:06 Lenny Rachitsky So maybe a simple way to think about it, just summarizing is it's essentially a formula for your business that often lives in Excel that kind of summarizes and puts together all the things that can drive your business.
How to scrappily hire for, measure, and unlock growth | Crystal Widjaja, Gojek and Kumu
- ▶ 6:00 Crystal Widjaja I ended up owning a huge Excel database of like