Microsoft Excel, every mention

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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft Excel comes up

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▶ 25:02 George Sivulka The spreadsheet in Excel is the most important software to have ever been invented. 3 times in the scene
▶ 32:12 George Sivulka Just like you don't ping the cloud to run your Excel model unless you're in Google sheets.
▶ 38:55 George Sivulka I think longer term, just as I'm talking about how generalization beats specialization, you saw over the last 20 years of enterprise SaaS, Excel get unbundled into a million specialization things. 2 times in the scene

▶ 4:41 Benedict Evans Or, which is the traditional bread and butter of SaaS, is you go and find something, and you unbundle it from Excel, or email, or Salesforce, or, or, or, or SAP.
▶ 7:05 Benedict Evans It can't replace Excel, it can't. 2 times in the scene
▶ 16:20 Benedict Evans You know, you force, you know, you, you, I mean, the, the, the analogy I always used to use is, you know, you would, um, you've got people who take data out of SAP, put it into Excel, make charts, put charts in PowerPoint.

▶ 10:37 Evan Kaplan And I, listening to Mike's talk, well, we still use Excel from 1985, so, so there was a little bit of humble pie for us to eat, because it was pretty clear that the language, and this is, this is right around the time of the, we really…

▶ 1:02 Mike Palmer They basically take an old product like Power BI, they throw Excel in there, some sort of connection to OpenAI, and they wrap it all into a marketing term called Fabric, and they charge you more money for it.
▶ 3:59 Mike Palmer Like the most common, uh, feature in all BI products was the button that said download to Excel.
▶ 10:51 Mike Palmer If you went back and looked at Excel's release in 19, Microsoft's release in 1985, looks an awful lot like it does today.
▶ 22:11 Mike Palmer Uh, and that's kind of the magic that we mostly made work, and when I say mostly, I always tell folks, what's the difference between a spreadsheet in Sigma and a spreadsheet like Excel, and the difference is in Sigma, there is no cell…
▶ 30:48 Mike Palmer They basically take an old product like Power BI, another existing product called Power Apps, they throw Excel in there, some sort of connection to OpenAI, and they wrap it all into a marketing term called Fabric, and they charge you more…

▶ 49:56 Amjad Masad And the kind of mental model they have, you know, if Excel has like a billion users, anyone who's able to use Excel should be able to use Agent. 2 times in the scene

▶ 53:49 Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) And that's when suddenly they're like, okay, can I just put this into Excel because I'll answer it myself.

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