Excel
11 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Sep 3, 2024 by Don Mal · across every show →
Everything said about Excel, oldest first
Sep 3, 2024 positive
Mal: IBM discontinued Clarity Systems' product after acquisition, opening market for Vena
“When IBM acquired the company where we worked, they discontinued the product that we then re-entered the market with our own approach, so we fill that void in a sense. Their product, the company that was sold to IBM, had an Excel look and feel capability withi…”
Sep 3, 2024 neutral
Apr 28, 2025
Apr 28, 2025 neutral
Jun 30, 2025
Sep 22, 2025
Product managers must manually prove feature value in Excel before writing code
“I now tell my product people, I've been saving it for a long time. Basically, you will not send anything To development until you will show a customer that experienced this value without the actual product. Hack it in Excel and Power BI. Be the person for them…”
Feb 26, 2026 negative
Gurfinkel: CFOs with 15 years in Excel won't adopt web-based FP&A
“You are a CFO of a 200 employees company. You use Excel for 15 years to run your finance. You will never leave Excel. So all these web-based FP&A solution, FP&A web-based financial system, you will never Even think to move from Excel to the web.”
Feb 26, 2026
Gurfinkel: CIOs want to replace Excel, but finance teams insist on it
“If you speak with the CIO of the company, you speak with the business, the typically business user, they use Excel, but their dream is to get rid of Excel, right?... Finance people want to stay with Excel because it's more just a tool. This is part of their, e…”
Feb 26, 2026 positive
Gurfinkel: Datarails beat competitors in every deal due to connectivity
“And when we came with such a compelling and impressive technology with this capability that we beat them in every deal. In every deal, we beat them because they couldn't even get close to what we offer with this connectivity with Excel and database.”
Feb 26, 2026
Mar 19, 2026 negative
Hastings: Traditional month-end accounting workbooks lose vital business context
“All of that data is lost because that work is done usually in manual spreadsheets that lives on someone's laptop, and it's done a little bit differently month over month. These are called month-close workbooks, which are always an Excel sheet living on, on som…”