Re:Unicorn Startup Airtable Lays Off 27% of Firm, Shifts Foc...
by aurareturn on Friday September 15, 2023 @08:51PM
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Don’t forget plain old Excel, which every office worker knows how to use.
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Re:Unicorn Startup Airtable Lays Off 27% of Firm, Shifts Foc...
by browningstreet on Saturday September 16, 2023 @10:50AM
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Maybe:
My son is a physics major in college. He was telling me last night that in one of his required math/physics classes this week his prof had to do an intro-to-excel section because 2/3 of the class had never used excel before.
I worked in IS in a bank you’ve heard of. We did a lot of planning and data mocking in excel — lots of the senior business users and even some of the tech folk weren’t baseline competent at managing rows and cells. I’m not talking pivot tables and reports … just cells.
I don’t think it’s a “solved problem”.
I love Airtable, esp the visual component and live exporting. I hope they can keep developing.