Excel

12 statements across 11 episodes · 3 bullish · 4 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2013 by Nick Walter · across every show →

Everything said about Excel, oldest first

Dec 5, 2013
Disclosure
numberFire handles part of its predictive data modeling using Excel macros
“It's done on one hand, a lot of Python into R on one hand. Another part of it is actually done in Excel in a series of macros done by our chief analyst.”
Nick Walter Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 13:46 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #9 // Nov 2012
Sep 22, 2014 positive
Assertion Supported
Sumo Logic has 150 employees and backing from Greylock, Sequoia, Accel
“Just real background, you can see where some of us came from are about a 150 people. We're backed out of the gate by Greylock, and then we just added, ah, Sequoia recently, and Excel, and Sutter Hill, and some other companies as investors.”
Vance Loiselle Sep 22, 2014 ▶ 1:18 Vance Loiselle, Sumo Logic // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Sep 14, 2015 negative
Insight
Deighton: Users export data to Excel only when lacking better software alternatives
“It's not that they don't want to, ah, you know, it's not that they desire export to Excel for some fundamental reason, they make good with that when they have no better alternative.”
Anthony Deighton Sep 14, 2015 ▶ 12:37 Anthony Deighton, Qlik: Top 10 Requirements For Visual Analytics (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Feb 3, 2017 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wickramasekara: Life science research still runs on paper, email, and Excel
“This is an industry that runs on paper, email, and Excel, and it's something that touches everyone.”
Sajith Wickramasekara Feb 3, 2017 ▶ 3:28 Drug Discovery as a Data Problem // Sajith Wickramasekara, Benchling (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Feb 3, 2017 negative
Insight
Wickramasekara: Curing cancer with Excel is worse than dev without version control
“They're literally trying to cure cancer using Excel. This is the equivalent of one of the companies you work at building software without version control. It's honestly probably a little worse, actually.”
Sajith Wickramasekara Feb 3, 2017 ▶ 6:01 Drug Discovery as a Data Problem // Sajith Wickramasekara, Benchling (FirstMark's Data Driven)
May 13, 2019
Insight
Stancil: Technical data skills are learnable, analytical thinking is harder to teach
“They're gonna need SQL skills, they're gonna, they might need Python or R skills, they'll need something like Excel but those things are learnable, whereas I think, like, the way of thinking is often harder to teach.”
Benn Stancil May 13, 2019 ▶ 18:24 The Case for Hiring More Analysts // Benn Stancil, Mode (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Oct 22, 2019
Insight
Quants and heavy Excel users make the best low-code automation users
“Typically we see people that are quants or particularly useful with spreadsheets and can build heavy Excel models are a really good tray user.”
Rich Waldron Oct 22, 2019 ▶ 14:22 Empowering Superheroes at Work // Rich Waldron, Tray (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Apr 10, 2024 neutral
Insight
Evans: Every enterprise software company is unbundling Oracle, Gmail, or Excel
“Basically every enterprise software company for the sake of argument is unbundling Oracle, Gmail, or Excel.”
Benedict Evans Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 10:16 Is AI a platform shift or a paradigm shift? With Benedict Evans
May 1, 2025 neutral
Insight
Palmer: "Download to Excel" was the most common feature in all BI tools
“The most common feature in all BI products was the button that said download to Excel.”
Mike Palmer May 1, 2025 ▶ 3:59 Dashboards Are Dead: Sigma’s BI Revolution for Trillion-Row Data
May 22, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Evans: Current AI models still cannot replace existing software like Excel
“But it still can't actually replace any of the software you use. It can't replace Excel, it can't.”
Benedict Evans May 22, 2025 ▶ 7:02 AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on What Really Matters Now
May 29, 2025 positive
Opinion
Sivulka calls Microsoft Excel the most important software ever invented
“The spreadsheet in Excel is the most important software to have ever been invented.”
George Sivulka May 29, 2025 ▶ 25:02 AI That Ends Busy Work — Hebbia CEO on “Agent Employees”
Sep 11, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2035
Crespo: Microsoft Excel will still be actively used in ten years
“I have a prediction that Excel will still be here in five years. And there is a good reason. You can keep that. In five years, Excel will still be there. And in 10 years, Excel will still be there.”
Eleonore Crespo Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 36:31 Goodbye Excel? AI Agents for Self-Driving Finance – Pigment CEO
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