Re:You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video]
by nhebb on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @10:00PM
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As mentioned elsewhere, he was a Program Manager for Excel. His story ("My First BillG Review") about spearheading the effort to bring VBA into Excel is a great read:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html