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Re:Startup Financial Modeling: What is a Financial Model? (2... by JaakkoP on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @11:09PM (#24854533)
This may have been true in 2016, but since then, I’ve seen CEOs raising multimillion dollar rounds using Google Sheets, financial modeling software, and Excel alike.

There’s certainly still some preference towards Excel in 2020, but in no way using sheets will mean that you’re not “financially savvy.”

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Re:Startup Financial Modeling: What is a Financial Model? (2... by formercoder on Thursday October 22, 2020 @08:03AM (#24857108)
Back in 2016 google sheets couldn’t do circular calculations, so many financial modeling tasks were impossible.
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Re:Startup Financial Modeling: What is a Financial Model? (2... by ska on Thursday October 22, 2020 @11:54AM (#24859356)
This is a good point. It started off with a bit of a "toy spreadsheet" reputation (fair or not) and that may have biased some people for a while. It shouldn't matter now.
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