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Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 1:07 Aaron Epstein So AI re-imagine for Excel. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:37 Aaron Epstein This looks like a screenshot from Excel or something like that.
The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:56 Amjad Masad Uh, until the Excel sheet. 2 times in the scene
The Sales Playbook For Founders | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:00 Tom Blomfield If you can work from Excel imports and exports, for example, that can work.
The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
Bob McGrew: AI Agents And The Path To AGI · Y Combinator
How Do Billion Dollar Startups Start? · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 14:28 Michael Seibel Macro you can do on an Excel spreadsheet.
- ▶ 16:33 Dalton Caldwell I would argue this is a similar thing, which is all, you know, all the Excel spreadsheet modeling you learn as an investment banker.
How To Talk To Users | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 5:52 Amber Atherton Going into it with a structure of, okay, let's fill out this Excel sheet.
- ▶ 1:01:30 Amber Atherton Get an Excel.
Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:23 Gustaf Alströmer Like, the first year or two, I remember all A-B tests was basically an Excel,
Analyzing Billions of Transactions to Understand Consumer Behavior - Michael Babineau and Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 24:58 Avni Patel Thompson I can use Excel as a database.
Building a Startup is About Solving a Problem - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 12:52 Sam Altman The normal way people do this is just someone keeps an Excel spreadsheet.