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Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban · Y Combinator Jul 28, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:31 Blake Scholl Imagine a whole bunch of engineering specialists, each working in an Excel spreadsheet on their own discipline, and then handing off the results of analysis from one engineer to another.

Replit's CEO On The Only Two Jobs Left In The Company Of The Future · Y Combinator Apr 25, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 32:48 Amjad Masad And coding agents turned to be a workaround and hack because a lot of things that you could do in front of the computer, you could do with code, including, you know, scripting an Excel sheet, right? 2 times in the scene

Cursor Head of Design Roasts Startup Websites · Y Combinator Nov 20, 2025 · 4 mentions

The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator Sep 12, 2025 · 2 mentions

The Sales Playbook For Founders | Startup School · Y Combinator Aug 15, 2025 · 1 mention

The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street · Y Combinator Jul 31, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 1:18 Chas Englander So our own version of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, with the major difference that it's built on top of an agentic system that kind of mirrors what a human has access to at the firms we work with. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:08 Chas Englander So you have an Excel spreadsheet that's already connected into these data sources.
  • ▶ 29:57 Chas Englander You know, at least as of today, if our product, we made it, we made a call that we would kind of rebuild our version of like PowerPoint, Word, and Excel, because we, we do believe, at least for the time being, that the way in which people… 2 times in the scene

Scaling and the Road to Human-Level AI | Anthropic Co-founder Jared Kaplan · Y Combinator Jul 29, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:37 Jared Kaplan I come from a research background rather than, uh, rather than business, so I don't, I don't know that I have anything very, uh, very deep to say, but I think that, like, in general, any place where, um, it requires a lot of skill, um, and…

Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs · Y Combinator Jun 25, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 11:28 Satya Nadella And then suddenly people said with email and PCs and Excel, they said, let's bring those, like, let me just send an Excel spreadsheet and email.
  • ▶ 20:37 Satya Nadella Uh, in fact, when I think about Excel, I think of it as an IDE.
  • ▶ 39:17 Satya Nadella I mean, I mean, I mean, that's why I always say what's your, if somebody asks me what's my favorite product, it's always, you know, VS code is one and the other one is Excel. 2 times in the scene

State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents · Y Combinator May 30, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:54 Garry Tan Is it, I mean, what's funny is like literally it's like word documents and Excel spreadsheets, right?

Bob McGrew: AI Agents And The Path To AGI · Y Combinator Jan 31, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:26 Garry Tan You know, the alternative is Excel spreadsheet, writing SQL statements yourself, or, uh, cost plus, you know, government integrator, or like Accenture, and they're never going to get something usable.

How Do Billion Dollar Startups Start? · Y Combinator Oct 11, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:23 unnamed speaker So if you have lots and lots of salespeople, it turns out it's quite a complex math that goes beyond my Excel skills to figure that out.

Why Founders Shouldn't Think Like Investors · Y Combinator Mar 21, 2024 · 2 mentions

How To Talk To Users | Startup School · Y Combinator Dec 1, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 13:50 Gustaf Alströmer Even though it might appear basics to you, for example, like Excel or Google Spreadsheets is actually competitors to many, many, many, many hundreds of startups. 3 times in the scene

Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator Dec 18, 2019 · 2 mentions

Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator Jun 26, 2019 · 1 mention

Analyzing Billions of Transactions to Understand Consumer Behavior - Michael Babineau and Kevin Hale · Y Combinator May 29, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:18 Michael Babineau How do I load this into Excel? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:28 Michael Babineau Like, uh, think of it as a, a, a group of analysts who are, um, you know, working in Excel and trying to figure out, like, is, you know, is, um, Stitch Fix a good, like, a, a, a, a poised for growth in the longer term?

Starting a Startup After Business School - Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis of AptDeco · Y Combinator Dec 14, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:37 Reham Fagiri I mean, I think we were just like able to dig into a lot of detail that it was hard to catch when if you're just manipulating Excel documents before.

Andrew Kortina of Venmo and Fin on Technological Determinism and Work's Relationship to Dignity · Y Combinator Nov 20, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:52 Andrew Kortina It can be nice to escape that for a while, and I think, like, craft has that sort of, you know, like, cooking is like that, or, you know, writing software is like that, working with your hands, I think is like that, um, doing Excel, I…

Carolynn Levy And Panel (Jon Levy, Jason Kwon) - Startup Legal Mechanics · Y Combinator Aug 29, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:09 Carolynn Levy Um, you need to keep a record of every single share of stock that your company issues, and we used to have to do these on these complicated Excel spreadsheets, but fortunately there are now multiple online platforms that will keep track of…

Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator Mar 30, 2018 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 4:24 Vivek Ravisankar Um, so we, I, I still have the Excel, which projects us to make, I think somewhere on the lines of a hundred million dollars, uh, or a hundred crores, uh, whatever it's like, fifty million dollars, something along those lines. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:30 Vivek Ravisankar Uh, the Excel was completely off the trajectory of the Excel graph and where we were.

The Number One Goal is Getting Started - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy · Y Combinator Mar 2, 2018 · 1 mention

Building a Startup is About Solving a Problem - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy · Y Combinator Sep 21, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 11:25 Avni Patel Thompson I had a landing page on Squarespace, signups and feedback forms were done through Typeform, Stripe handled the payments, I did scheduling via Google Calendar, communication with SMS, and my database was Excel.
  • ▶ 15:22 Avni Patel Thompson And so I moved on to Excel.

Later Stage Advice with Sam Altman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 20) · Y Combinator May 1, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:52 Sam Altman The normal way people do this is just someone keeps an Excel spreadsheet.
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