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Oct 28, 2026
Andrew McDermottGUEST
I was a history major and an adventurer who wanted to travel.
Andrew McDermottGUEST
My first job was really in IT, and I washed up in Hong Kong and got a job in J.P. Morgan's IT department when they were switching from Lotus 1-2-3 to Excel, which you and I probably remember a lot of people don't.
Andrew McDermottGUEST
And my great skill set was I knew how to write macros in Excel.
Andrew McDermottGUEST
So they trained me in finance a little bit.
Christopher MaverickGUEST
Can you make something that is fun to use? Like I know people who are, I don't know, accountants or whatever, who are like, I love Excel.
Christopher MaverickGUEST
Excel is so fun, but that's okay because I'm also a weird nerd just for other stuff, right? What makes Excel useful is in a way that Lotus 1, 2, 3, which was a product that nobody uses anymore, Excel became something that was fun to use for the people who use it.
Christopher MaverickGUEST
And
Cheryl PlatzHOST
you have a theory about how making the mundane fun is part of why AI has become so sticky, right?
Mark CubanGUEST
In my mind, when it came to software, there was only going to be one person who understood any given software better than me, and that would be the person who wrote it.
Mark CubanGUEST
And that if I busted my ass, I was tied per second, right? When that's a new program like Lotus 1-2-3, if you remember that one.
Mark CubanGUEST
Shut up.
Mark CubanGUEST
Shut up.
Christoph HeinGUEST
Und das ist 'n Problem, das hast du vor, hast du heute, das hast du vor zehn Jahren, vor 20 Jahren und vor 30 Jahren und vor 40 Jahren gehabt.
Christoph HeinGUEST
Egal, ob du vor 40 Jahren irgendwie Lotus 123 eingeführt hast, ja, oder vor, vor, vor, vor 30, 40 Jahren, äh, TM1 oder, oder, oder S Base oder was auch immer es damals alles für Tools gab, ja.
Christoph HeinGUEST
Oder, oder vor zehn Jahren Tableau und Power BI, ne.
Christoph HeinGUEST
Du hast immer dieselben Themen.
Jacob RhoadesPANELIST
There are obviously enterprise versions of these that have license agreements, but it's still an interesting thing, like to think about that privacy.
Frank BuchholzHOST
Well, I know that, Jacob, you like to make fun of me because I make reference to some of the older technologies that I've worked with, but it would be that, you know, we watch that pendulum swing where we talk about going from like a mainframe to a PC, And I would argue like Lotus 1-2-3 was probably like what caused a lot of people to start buying a PC.
Frank BuchholzHOST
What is that application that allowed them to do that? I always name drop that I work for this company, Silicon Graphics, that got put literally out of business by Nvidia at the time by selling a $300 gaming card.
Frank BuchholzHOST
And that business caused people to go from a large device to a small device again because of this $300 gaming card and be able to do things like Photoshop on your device.
Shane EmmonsGUEST
Let's not let's not pretend it's not going to eliminate jobs, but it creates sites.
Shane EmmonsGUEST
My personal favorite example, and just because I was born on the cusp of it and so I've seen it play out as I've grown up, is back in the 70s ahead of Lotus 1-2-3 and Smartsheet, you had people building spreadsheets by hand.
Shane EmmonsGUEST
And so there was about 600,000 people employed to do that job across the entirety of the world.
Shane EmmonsGUEST
That job does not exist anymore.
Darren MillerGUEST
I genuinely did not know anything about spreadsheets at the time.
Darren MillerGUEST
But took his advice, fortunately, and in a break saw a couple of videos on my friend's shelf called Dr. 123 or Dr. Lotus 123, put these Betamax or VHS tapes in the machine and played this basically a training course.
Darren MillerGUEST
And I totally got the bug of what this was about and became a – I would consider myself a world expert in using spreadsheets, and that's what I built my finance career on.
Darren MillerGUEST
And unfortunately, as someone curious who had developed this expertise, I could see weaknesses in the technology and things I would fix if I was building spreadsheets, the application Excel or Lotus.
Keith KleinHOST
I mean, so many companies like, you know, Dan Brooklyn, right? Yes.
Keith KleinHOST
With creating this first VisiCalc and the spreadsheet and, you know, Lotus 1-2-3.
Keith KleinHOST
So I was in college, 90 to 94, and I had a Sony laptop that was probably the size of like a big backpack.
Keith KleinHOST
Yeah.
Guy HaddletonGUEST
And I wrote a foreign exchange program with the Development Financial Corporation of New Zealand about managing foreign exchange risk.
Guy HaddletonGUEST
And that gave me a whole grounding in the spreadsheet, Lotus 1-2-3, the initial business spreadsheet.
Liam DannHOST
So did you have some... experience or background in that from the army side or did you just pick it up in the
Guy HaddletonGUEST
NBA? The army was paper and pencil and that was it and signals, communications.
Liam DannHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Guy HaddletonGUEST
And, uh, I wrote a foreign exchange program with the Development Finance Corporation of New Zealand about managing foreign exchange risk, and it ga- that gave me a whole grounding in the spreadsheet, Lotus 1-2-3, uh, the initial, um, business, um, spreadsheet.
Liam DannHOST
So did you have some experience or background in that from the, the Army side-
Guy HaddletonGUEST
No
Guy HaddletonGUEST
"Hey, I can do that." And so I, I left, and I, I didn't have much money.
Liam DannHOST
Yeah.
Guy HaddletonGUEST
And I, I put an ad on the, uh, Financial Times and just said, "Business plan on Lotus 1-2-3," yadi, yada.
Guy HaddletonGUEST
Um, 49 pounds.
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