Eleonore Crespo is the co-CEO of Pigment, an enterprise software platform. She discusses long-term scale and valuation ambitions alongside co-founder Romain Niccoli.
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.”
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Crespo: AI will compress 15-year scientific research timelines into two years
“I actually think that now, probably in two years, you can actually, actually achieve things that you would have done before in 15 years.”
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Crespo: Enterprise AI finance systems will always require human supervision
“I do believe that in what we do, they will always be on top of that a supervising human.”
Insight
Crespo: Developers cannot effectively use Cursor without understanding coding fundamentals
“The fundamentals of what coding is today, you are not able to use cursor. If you don't understand coding”
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Crespo: Pigment reduces cohort analysis build times from months to minutes
“I think vibe planning is the sense that now you can build easily models on pigment. So you can do vibe planning on like, you know, like building super, super simple, like maybe, you know, like a cohort analysis that would have taken you months to build. Now yo…”
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Deloitte partners carry a $25 million annual quota, says Crespo
“For instance, I was with a Deloitte partner, and they were telling me, for them, their yearly so-called quota is twenty-five million. And for those who don't know, in enterprise software, the quota is more between one and two million if you're lucky, right?”