Equals Raises $6.6M from David Sacks at Craft Ventures to Replace Excel
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Equals Raises $6.6M from David Sacks at Craft Ventures to Replace Excel
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Re: Equals Raises $6.6M from David Sacks at Craft Ventures to Replace Excel
#2$6.6m doesn't sound like that's a lot of money to make an Excel killer. Also, it looks very much like a spreadsheet to me.
Re: Equals Raises $6.6M from David Sacks at Craft Ventures to Replace Excel
#3$6.6m doesn't sound like that's a lot of money to make an Excel killer. Also, it looks very much like a spreadsheet to me.
Well it said replace "Excel", not replace the "spreadsheet" ;-)
I can definitely see the appeal after watching the video. Not sure whether that would be enough to pull me away from Excel/Google sheets especially since that is "free" if you are in microsoft land or google land.
Re: Equals Raises $6.6M from David Sacks at Craft Ventures to Replace Excel
#4$6.6m doesn't sound like that's a lot of money to make an Excel killer. Also, it looks very much like a spreadsheet to me.
Well it said replace "Excel", not replace the "spreadsheet" ;-) I can definitely see the appeal after watching the video. Not sure whether that would be enough to pull me away from Excel/Google sheets especially since that is "free" if you are in microsoft land or google land.
Aren't Excel and slreadsheet synonyms? Certainly seem to be!
Excel seems so ingrained at this point, supporting something else would be very hard I think.
Re: Equals Raises $6.6M from David Sacks at Craft Ventures to Replace Excel
#5Looks neat.
Causal [1] seems to be another option (they also raised funding recently).
Re: Equals Raises $6.6M from David Sacks at Craft Ventures to Replace Excel
#6Copy excel shortcuts is smart, but no, this will not replace Excel. Transpile VBA into something like python, automagically open and translate Excel files, and then maybe, MAYBE you'd find a niche of other startups that don't want to integrate with the Microsoft stack. Otherwise, good luck.
Re: Equals Raises $6.6M from David Sacks at Craft Ventures to Replace Excel
#7>> we all STILL invariably end up back in a tool that was built in the 80’s: Excel.
You lose a lot of goodwill with intentionally misleading statements like this. I'm writing this on a computer, and they were built even earlier than the 80s!
Re: Equals Raises $6.6M from David Sacks at Craft Ventures to Replace Excel
#8I've seen seemingly immortal tech giants die to the newcomer, but MS's office is just too ubiquitous and embedded everywhere. So even if there's a superior excel alternative, who would use it when they already have Excel along with tons of other office tools.
Re: Equals Raises $6.6M from David Sacks at Craft Ventures to Replace Excel
#9>> we all STILL invariably end up back in a tool that was built in the 80’s: Excel. You lose a lot of goodwill with intentionally misleading statements like this. I'm writing this on a computer, and they were built even earlier than the 80s!
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Re: Equals Raises $6.6M from David Sacks at Craft Ventures to Replace Excel
#10It sounds like if they get any significant traction, it would be trivial for Microsoft to add the equivalent features to Excel.