Microsoft Excel, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft Excel comes up
1227 Would $24m ARR Dashlane Ever Merge with LastPass?
- ▶ 10:22 Emmanuel Shalit You know, people, our biggest competition is do nothing or it's an Excel file or an Evernote note, which is a terrible ID.
1181 How MovableInk Broke $40m in ARR with 1 Pricing Axis to Drive Expansion Revenue
- ▶ 11:39 Nathan Latka I'm sure there were Excel sheets and rationalizing this somehow, so I'm assuming you were
1170 Playbook he used for taking 3 companies public f\rom scratch
- ▶ 21:18 Will Herman Ah, XL.
1167 How FloQast Grew 300% YoY to $8m ARR Selling to Accounting Teams
- ▶ 4:01 Mike Whitmire We're able to access their Excel workbooks to help automate this reconciliation process.
1142 Why went public, then sold to Vista for $564m on $100m in ARR
- ▶ 2:44 Chris Cabrera And, uh, the vast majority of the world today, uh, is doing it on Excel and exactly was created to, uh, create software to help drive the
1128 New CEO with New Funding Grows SalesScout from $35k to $260k MRR
- ▶ 16:37 Chris Lynde Uh, well, I'm an analytics guy, so I, you know, I'm, I'm all over the BI, so it's Excel and Tableau and Looker and tools like that.
1113 His Vegas Raceway Grossed $10m in Y1, Here's How
- ▶ 8:53 Aaron Fessler He's going to make an Excel spreadsheet.
1101 Bloomreach CEO: We've turned down acquisition offers in $400m range
- ▶ 12:33 Raj De Datta They just haven't been with you long enough, so you can divide by churn and the Excel works, but you don't really know how long they're with you, and I think we're still early.
1089 Workato CEO: "We're Enterprise Version" of Zapier, Segment, Elastoic
- ▶ 18:48 Nathan Latka LTV can really lie to you if you're just plugging numbers into Excel sheet, but I'm just talking about numbers you already have, which is CAC and how quickly you get the money back.
1088 How Ex-Salesforce Leader Launched Video for Salespeople Growing 100% YoY
- ▶ 17:23 Nathan Latka I mean, if you just do this in Excel, you, anyone can make the argument for infinite, but that can, but then you could say, well, then I'm gonna spend infinite on CAC, which would be dangerous.
1087 Yeah I'd sell (Live negotiation)
- ▶ 13:27 James Kappen Um, it's hard to, you know, one of the main friction points actually is moving their content from wherever they have it, Microsoft word, Excel, Dropbox, getting it into our platform.
1067 Vero CEO: "We're API Driven Email Marketing" with $150k+ in MRR
- ▶ 15:45 Nathan Latka I mean, generally, if you just stuck these things in an Excel sheet, which probably is not valuable at two percent monthly logo churn, that's like a lifetime value of 50 months at the 500 puts you at like 25 grand, but that's a target…
1066 Optimove CEO: "Conditions Were Right To Stop Bootstrapping w/ $20m Raise"
- ▶ 3:17 Pini Yakuel But everything we do today, we did manually with people and presentations and Excel files, uh, throughout the years, uh, for the first three years, we've accumulated money through this agency business.
1057 Talend CEO: "IPO was right move"
- ▶ 8:07 Mike Tuchen If you're comfortable using Excel and a tool like Tableau, then here's a way for you to solve that same kind of data integration problem in a much, much simpler, um, approach.
1045 Tech CEO: I Sold for $20m! Guess what he's doing now...
- ▶ 10:21 Kevin Davis Like before us, they were using Excel, email, manual PayPal links.
1038 How Prezly Bootstrapped To $1.6m+ in ARR
- ▶ 10:28 Nathan Latka Many people would go, well, Nathan, you're just putting them into Excel sheet.
1020 Urban Outfitters Inventory Management Tool Breaks $6m in ARR
- ▶ 4:35 John Andrews Uh, the way that these decisions are made today is generally based on gut instinct and Excel spreadsheets, right?
995 Pakistan King of SaaS
- ▶ 3:46 Nathan Latka Are you just paying for kind of clear bit and full contact to enrich your web scrapers and then feeding that Excel list back to your clients? 3 times in the scene
970 28 Year Old Turns Down $12m Acquisition Offer, Doing $65k in MRR in CoBrowsing, Live Chat Space
- ▶ 9:48 Nathan Latka But sometimes they're like, they're in Excel sheets the whole time.
955 How Skillshare Doubles YoY to $30m+ With Huge Content Library
- ▶ 4:28 Michael Karnjanaprakorn I think, you know, you know, I think when I, when I was thinking about what to do next, I had an Excel file with like over a hundred different business ideas.
- ▶ 19:42 Nathan Latka From the guy that had over a hundred ideas in an Excel sheet before picking out Skillshare, Michael says, focus and go all in on one thing.
937 SaaS: How He Gets 100-150% Expansion Revenue in Customer Year 2
- ▶ 6:23 Pierre Asayag So we're, we're, we find ourselves as a replacement for low tech solution very often when you come in a mix of Twitter list and Excel.
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?
- ▶ 13:28 Nathan Latka For a company like yours, where you've got so many upsell revenue opportunities, expansion revenue, et cetera, um, a lifetime value can sometimes lie to you because you put an Excel sheet, you project it and let it go out.
902 SaaS: Bootstrapped BiznessApps Passes $17m in ARR, 3000 Agency's Building SMB Mobile Apps
- ▶ 12:23 Nathan Latka I'm literally in an Excel sheet just doing math.
901 SaaS: Bootstrapped Enterprise Marketing Maropost Passes $36m ARR
- ▶ 15:22 Nathan Latka If you look, if you're, if you're running a business in an Excel sheet, which you're not doing, it'll lie to you because it'll say lifetime value is infinite because you don't, you barely turn anybody.