spreadsheets

“So the reason why you switched from spreadsheets to databases, which is a completely different kind of thing, right, is because of spreadsheets couldn't handle the larger amounts.”

“If in the early eighties, You know, if we could go back and go into a time machine and deliver to the past a spreadsheet that worked on unlimited amounts of data, would things have happened the way they happened? You know, yes, somehow data governance would ha…”

“90% of spreadsheets are not used for kind of their intended purpose of numerical analysis, but really, you know, they're used as a makeshift database.”

“Spreadsheets did not result in a collapse in the number of people working in finance. They're quite the opposite. You have way more people in finance, because now it's possible to do all this more, all this new stuff that you couldn't have done before.”