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The "Kiss of Death" That Kills 90% of Startups | Nikhil Gupta, ArmorCode Sep 8, 2026 · 1 mention

We Turned Pre-Seed Into a $10 Billion Category | Gaurav Jain, Afore Capital Jul 17, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:35 Gaurav Jain Airtable built a prosumer horizontal tool, in their case, focusing on Excel and, like, sort of making a better version of Excel, if you may.

Why Construction still Runs on Spreadsheets (And How AI Fixes It) | Sneha & Graham, Merlin AI Apr 9, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 2:56 Sneha Kumari And that picture somehow, um, is, is far from, uh, it's, it's, it does, it's not as simple to achieve when you have, when you're sitting with five different point solutions and trying to, you know, get that picture alive, you always, of…
  • ▶ 8:47 Sneha Kumari Despite having Dynamics also using smart sheets and using Excel,
  • ▶ 39:55 Sneha Kumari Imagine me sitting down and doing that Excel, and now you can do it on your own, all the data being fed and, you know, uh,

How Digital TEAMMATES Transform Billion Dollar Industries? | Samay Kohli of GreyOrange & Budy.ai Feb 21, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 20:08 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Like it's not like they're maintaining their records on Excel. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 44:57 Samay Kohli I'll do an email once and twice, then you'll be like, so let's just put this on a Google sheet or let's put this on a Microsoft Excel share drive.

7 Myths About Selling B2B SaaS In India ft Unicommerce Founder Kapil Makhija Aug 29, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 14:03 Kapil Makhija Uh, the, uh, and as we were exchanging notes, uh, before, uh, we, uh, we start talking about this topic that a lot of software, a lot of businesses still run on manual operations or Excel, uh, which is the case in e-commerce also, because… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:42 unnamed speaker Uh, people may think that they can work with Excel, but when you're dealing with, uh, with multiple e-commerce marketplaces, it becomes a nightmare.
  • ▶ 1:02:16 Kapil Makhija Like I said, 85% of the market still operates on Excel.

Paras Chopra: How To Build A Successful Startup In India | Sold Wingify For $200 Million Jul 4, 2025 · 2 mentions

15 Years Of Investing Lessons In 75 Minutes With Prime Ventures and Stellaris Partners | Neon Show Jun 13, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 6:28 unnamed speaker And second thing you also understand, which comes when you're investing in startups, uh, when you start investing is that it's very easy to build, uh, models on a Excel sheet and like write stories and vision on, uh, 4 times in the scene

Why Traditional Playbooks Are Failing & What Really Works In SAAS? | WizCommerce, Pienomial & Merlin Jun 5, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:14:42 unnamed speaker Like, you know, for an example, Microsoft PowerPoint, like, you know, or Excel sheet people are using it on the paper by PowerPoint came in 2 times in the scene

Why Stripe Paid $150M For A Young Indian Startup | Saurya Prakash Sinha, Recko May 30, 2025 · 4 mentions

Indian SaaS, AI Wave, IPO & Best Country For Co. Registration | 2024 Insights With SaaS Founder Aug 31, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:00 Shashank Bijapur When I, when you go in for RFP, they're looking at all the check marks that are there in that Excel sheet, and you need to make sure that each of those features exist.

2024 VC Updates, IPO Trends, And Fundraising Advice with Churchill’s Raja Doddala I Neon Show Jul 5, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 47:04 Raja Doddala Yeah, the most common one, the most, one of my pet peeves is make it really hard to find your top line performance, um, where we have to, you know, put it in Excel and calculate it.

The India Opportunity, Youth’s BIGGEST Problem & Future of Startups | India Quotient VC on Neon Show Nov 3, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 56:14 Anand Lunia I can bet you that 80% of the country or world cannot use even the basic features of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, right?

From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna Apr 3, 2023 · 1 mention

Acquisition By Freshworks and Building SaaS in Chennai with Srikrishnan Ganesan, Founder, Rocketlane Mar 13, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:15 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You saw a large market and an unsolved market because it was essentially getting solved on Excel sheets and Asana.

Understanding the Trillion-Dollar lending market in India ft. Rangarajan Krishnan Mar 6, 2023 · 2 mentions

India's Favorite WhatsApp Solution Provider Ft. Karthik Jagannathan, Founder of Gallabox Nov 21, 2022 · 1 mention

How He Built India's #1 SaaS for Manufacturers? Ft. Divyaanshu Makkar, Co-Founder-Sourcewiz Aug 23, 2022 · 1 mention

How Open Became The 100th Unicorn - The Story of Asia's First Neo Bank ft. Anish Achuthan Jun 13, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:17 Anish Achuthan If you are a large enterprise, obviously they used to give you that thing, but that to a complex process, you have to have download a software, have an Excel converted into a different file format, and it was very complex to do that. 2 times in the scene

How did Bipin Preet Singh Build a 540 Crore Fintech Product(Mobikwik), with 120M users? May 11, 2022 · 1 mention

Leaving HUL to Building a D2C Food Brand ft. Shashank Mehta , Founder & CEO - The Whole Truth May 9, 2022 · 1 mention

HOW They're Competing With ADOBE! ft. Satej Sirur, Founder @Rocketiumapp Mar 7, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:50 Satej Sirur Uh, you know, within Excel, for example, which was, you know, whether it was fundraising or looking at sales numbers or CRMs for, for that matter, uh, that sort of thing.

@HealthifyMe founder on Funding, Growth, Healthcare in India ft. Tushar Vashisht Oct 18, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:49 Tushar Vashisht So I built the first version sitting in Kerala in the farmer's hut on the Excel, my co-founder literally typing away calorie values.

Inside the mind of Pravin Agarwala, Co-Founder, BetterPlace | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast Apr 25, 2021 · 2 mentions

Inside the mind of Abhishek Goyal, Co-Founder, Tracxn | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast | Top Podcast Ep Apr 19, 2021 · 1 mention

Inside the mind of Jumbotail Founders, Ashish Jhina & Karthik Venkateswaran | 100x Entrepreneur Apr 14, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 33:41 unnamed speaker Uh, you know, not everything can be, can be modeled out on an Excel sheet. 2 times in the scene

Inside the mind of Aloke Bajpai, Co-Founder & CEO, ixigo Nov 2, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:08 Aloke Bajpai Uh, you know, thinking outside the box and therefore, you know, you know, running an Excel sheet or doing some data crunching from a big data system would, would never have thrown up those insights.

Nikhil Kapur, STRIVE Ventures on different SaaS models in Asia Aug 10, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 53:10 Nikhil Kapur But then Google acquisition happened, and at that time, I decided, um, you know, I've already been on sort of a large corporate journey, and one of the big reasons I came out from Microsoft was because I realized, like, you know, I'm one…

Anup Jain, Orios Venture Partners, on identifying the best founders & investing in Consumer Brands May 24, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:26 Anup Jain We have not risen from looking at Excel sheets, uh, only to make investments and to be able to mentor founders.

@unacademy founder on Building a 3 Billion Edtech Giant ft. Gaurav Munjal Feb 18, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:32 Gaurav Munjal You can't measure the expense of the cake that I will send, but you have, you need to realize that at the end of the day, great organizations are not built on Excel sheets.

100x Entrepreneur | Episode 19 | Kunal Khattar, Founder and Managing Partner of AdvantEdge Founders Oct 3, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 40:25 Kunal Khattar So one of the key things that we've, we've sort of incorporated in the fund is, we don't, we, we look at Excel sheets, but we don't manage by Excel sheets. 2 times in the scene

100xEntrepreneur | Episode 14 | Karthik Reddy, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blume Ventures Aug 16, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:50 unnamed speaker They'll come to us and say, man, I've just finished like my, I'm looking at my Excel sheet and I've pitched to 80 people.
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