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Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software Mar 19, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 23:40 Benedict Evans In fact, I found this wonderful quote from the New York Times from 1980, talking about VisiCalc and spreadsheets, and this, this, this guy says, of course, it was a guy who says, well, I used to code DCF models in machine code, and it… 2 times in the scene

From Business to Warfare: How AI Affects the Modern World | Azeem Azhar Jul 2, 2024 · 3 mentions

Is AI a platform shift or a paradigm shift? With Benedict Evans Apr 10, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 6:36 Benedict Evans And if you read Dan Bricklin talking about creating Visicalc, you know, he shows, and the young people of today won't know this, but before either of us were born spreadsheets was paper. 3 times in the scene

Howie Liu, Airtable // Founding Airtable (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) Apr 20, 2015 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:39 Howie Liu If you go back and look at the original launch articles for VisiCalc or Lotus one through three, they actually never once mentioned, you know, the idea of using it to track things like sales leads or, you know, job applicants or wedding…

Panel Discussion // NYC Data Business Meetup // May 2013 Dec 5, 2013 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:00 Peter Semmelhack Um, in fact, if you go back in history on Apple, they didn't invent VisiCalc either, which is the reason that Apple even got to where it got, the Apple II.
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