Microsoft Excel
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2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 18, 2016 by Eliot Horowitz · said 136 times in 54 episodes since 2013 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by George Sivulka (19), Benedict Evans (15), Sandy Steier (11), Sajith Wickramasekara (6), Eliot Horowitz (6), Mitch Trojanowski (5), Mike Palmer (5), Liz Crawford (3)
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2026 12 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
2025 19 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- AI That Ends Busy Work — Hebbia CEO on “Agent Employees”
- Dashboards Are Dead: Sigma’s BI Revolution for Trillion-Row Data
- AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on What Really Matters Now
- The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit
- Rewriting Success: What InfluxDB 3.0 Teaches About Scaling—and Scrapping—Your Core Tech
- Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy
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2024 11 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Is AI a platform shift or a paradigm shift? With Benedict Evans
- From Business to Warfare: How AI Affects the Modern World | Azeem Azhar
- AGI, The Future of AI Agents And The Next Wave of Opportunities in AI | Richard Socher, CEO, You.com
- AI, Data and Blockchain: a VC perspective | Tomasz Tunguz, Founder of Theory Ventures
- AI's Killing Marketing. Ecosystem-Led Grow is the Future | Bob Moore, the CEO of Crossbeam
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2023 18 mentions in 5 episodes 4 per episode
- AI and the Future of Knowledge Work with Hebbia’s CEO George Sivulka
- The Single Platform for Everyday AI - Fireside Chat with Florian Douetteau (Dataiku) & Matt Turck
- Hippocratic AI’s Munjal Shah: Building the First Safety-First LLM for Healthcare
- Why Vector Databases Are Exploding: Chroma Co-Founder Jeff Huber on Building AI-Native Infra
- LLM Powered Search | Vectara Founder & CEO, Amr Awadallah
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2021 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2019 11 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Data Science Is A Literacy, Not A Job // Peter Wang, Anaconda (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- Why Does The World Need Another Computer? // Anant Bhardwaj, Instabase (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- Empowering Superheroes at Work // Rich Waldron, Tray (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- The Case for Hiring More Analysts // Benn Stancil, Mode (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- Fireside Chat: Zach Perret, Founder & CEO of Plaid (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- Drug Discovery as a Data Problem // Sajith Wickramasekara, Benchling (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- Data-Driven Real Estate Investing // Jean Sini, Cadre (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- AI, Big Data, and Data Governance // Stan Christiaens, Collibra (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- Fake News, Alternative Facts and the Enterprise // Satyen Sangani, Alation (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 9 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
- A Fireside Chat With MongoDB CTO Eliot Horowitz (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- The Benefits of Fast Business Intelligence // Amir Orad, Sisense (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- Lessons Learned from Advanced Data Science Orgs // Domino Data Lab [FirstMark's Data Driven]
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2015 14 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Liz Crawford, Birchbox // Data Science & Analytics at Birchbox (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- Howie Liu, Airtable // Founding Airtable (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- Anthony Deighton, Qlik: Top 10 Requirements For Visual Analytics (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- Anand Sanwal, CB Insights // What's Next? (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- Bob Muglia, Snowflake // Navigating The Cloud (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- Ryan Smith, Qualtrics // The Qualtrics Story // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
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2014 18 mentions in 5 episodes 4 per episode
- Sandy Steier, 1010data // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- Michael Schmidt, SiSense // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- Michael Rubenstein and Catherine Williams, App Nexus // Data Driven #31 // Nov 2014
- Amit Bendov, SiSense // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- Joe Reisinger, Premise // Data Driven NYC 21 // Dec 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
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2013 8 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- John Foreman, Mailchimp // Data Driven NYC 19 // October 2013
- Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #9 // Nov 2012
- Michael Flowers, New York City // Data Driven NYC #17 // June 2013
- Jeremy Bronfman, CEO, Enigma // Data Driven NYC #17 // June 2013
- Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #12 // Jan 2013
- Hilary Mason, Bitly // Data Driven NYC #3 // Feb 2012
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Everything said about Microsoft Excel, oldest first
Mar 18, 2016 neutral
Horowitz: Relational databases function like Microsoft Excel on steroids
“A relational database is basically like Microsoft Excel on steroids. If you take Microsoft Excel, and you've got tables and rows, and you've got, you know, columns, and it's kind of like a relational database, but what a relational database does is give you an…”