Excel

“It's probably fifty-fifty, and that's because half of it is, is trying to learn enough and experiment and break things in Excel before we have to spend the dev resources to build it, to automate it”

“So Excel was actually, you know, first money in with us. We got Partner there, Samir Gandhi, that's been super, super supportive.”

“We just need to be there because we don't have huge competition. And so if we needed to have a bigger presence to sort of outdo the guy next door, then it would cost us a lot more. But because we're competing with in-house Excel models we just need to be on pe…”

“You're not going to go back to an XL model that operates 4000 times slower than Then T-rex, and that's just sort of baseline VBA code.”

“Really pen and paper Excel files and, you know, Google Docs are the primary competitor”

“We've been talking then mostly to New York based and California based ones. So we've talked to everybody, KKR and just everybody. We went to this You know, forum where we presented to all the top players and Excel and everybody else. And so they're all trackin…”

“So, 80%, 70 or 80%, depending on who you listen to, of people use Excel for their budgeting.”

“The way that these decisions are made today is generally based on gut instinct and Excel spreadsheets, right?”

“The basic problem that is that planning is extremely manual. That's done in Excel spreadsheets by sales strategy folks, and that gets, never gets you know, visibility on the ops side of the house. So ops is executed in CRM systems manually through custom code …”

“The difference would be that we work with the legacy systems at companies rather than have to implement something completely new, AKA Excel, Google Sheets.”

“What makes us special is that we don't have our own reporting UI, but we let you use whatever tool you already have in your organization, so we can bring the data for you into an Excel file, or in the Google Seeds, or Google Data Studio, Power BI, Tableau, wha…”

“Lots of our target customers are still doing that with pen and paper and Excel spreadsheets. Obviously that's inefficient. It's difficult to demonstrate your compliance and you can't really learn anything from your data.”

“98% of financial models are built in Excel.”