Excel

Riley Brown Uses and recommends it

“On Windows, Excel just does so much better than if you use it on a Mac. The sixth tool that you should download immediately to your Windows laptop is the Claude extension for Excel.”

The Game w/ Alex Hormozi Uses and recommends it

“This is a pure math question. Put all of them on an Excel sheet. Look what your LTVs are. Look what your conversion rates are, and then move pricing so you can maximize earnings per click.”

a16z Uses it

“I also grew up in Excel and I still use Excel to organize my thoughts. If I'm trying to run an analysis... it's just even the spatial organization of it.”

“Is Excel under threat? No. It's like my love language, dude... You use it to build intuition... Similarly, I think about that with Excel. It's the way I build trust, the way I build understanding. There may be something better in the future, but for me, I think it'd be really, really hard to rip away from me.”

“Excel is my most favorite… when you first were able to make sense of numbers, your relationship with numbers changed.”

“I would never hire a finance person didn't know how to use Excel. And I pretty much probably wouldn't hire a finance person today that doesn't know how to use a tool like Codex.”

“You can go into Excel, hook it up with Claude, hook up Claude with Standard Metrics, and then ask it to do a discounted cash flow. It'll just build it for you. It's amazing.”

Codie Sanchez Uses it

“I put it in an Excel spreadsheet. These days, you could throw that Venmo into AI and Rock and Roll.”

Greg Isenberg Mentioned it

“You have Claude Sheets which is basically their answer to Microsoft Excel.”

“I purchase everything and I organize everything. I take pictures of everything, and then the whole team that's on land has access to that Excel spreadsheet.”

“They were able to put in an Excel spreadsheet, send it in email, and avoid the fax machine and interoffice memos.”

“The Excel — I don't think we've met a company that doesn't use Excel spreadsheets, at least pre-Back Ops.”

“Do I have to disclose that I used Excel or that I used a calculator or that I used a synthesizer?”

David Heinemeier Hansson Mentioned it

“None of it came true in the sense beyond, like, Microsoft Access databases or Excel spreadsheets. Those are end user programming environments, but it's nothing like what we're able to do now.”

“If you're a long-short stock picker and you can't use Excel to create a company model, you're totally obsolete. And in future years you're going to have the same thing where if you don't know how to use AI tools, you're also going to be obsolete.”

“I remember negotiating that term sheet on his desk with a computer opened, going on decimals in the Excel to determine the exact number of shares.”

TBPN Mentioned it

“It's now a competitive esport for reasons that I still don't really understand. But it's fantastic. There's a great community around it. It's surprisingly watchable. And yeah, I won that competition in 2024.”

“People went and did tutorials on how to use Excel, how to use Word, how to use all these email tools, and then that became the upskilling you needed to go work at different companies.”

“The app talks directly to the add-in in Microsoft Excel on your desktop. When it's done, you can close Excel. So it's not just about drawing a rectangle on the screen and everything needs to happen in that rectangle.”

“On average they're using like QuickBooks, Excel. You may be using like Ramp, Bill.com. They're like manually sending you PDFs and emails.”

“Half of the jobs were telling people who used Excel to use a database and the other half were telling people who used a database to use Excel.”

“I didn't work within Excel or any documentation and it was all email, meetings, social.”

Tim Ferriss Mentioned it

“12 people sitting around in Kevin Kelly's house talking about measuring things with Excel spreadsheets.”

Dialectic Mentioned it

“if you had to do your job without ever using Excel ever again, how do you think it would affect your returns?”

“Before I even asked the questions, I actually would have reviewed literally Excel spreadsheets of data if I have to to be able to look at the information”

“We don't collect data. We don't have any data. It'd be like accusing Excel of being a surveillance tool, right? It's like this is a way of bringing your own data that you have lawful authorities to collect together to make decisions. Sounds a lot like Excel.”

The Knowledge Project Podcast Mentioned it

“I don't know that when people think I work hard, it's, you know, I was crunching more Excel models or building more PowerPoint.”

“Maybe the first time someone looked at Excel, they were like, 'Wait, where do I type the paragraphs or something' and you're like, 'Oh, no.' You have to think differently about it.”

Cal Newport Mentioned it

“I'm in Microsoft Excel and I'm like, can you sort row five by this amount and cut out all columns that you know have less than this many values?”

“Imagining being an accountant before Microsoft Excel and after Microsoft Excel... So much of the act of being an accountant was like adding up numbers and things, you know, and now it's like building a model.”

Tom Bilyeu Mentioned it

“If you really want to get a sense of what exponential looks like, go copy a single cell in an Excel spreadsheet and paste it in.”