Why Does Figma's CFO Still Use Excel?

Praveer Melwani says Excel is not under threat. It is his love language, the way he builds trust and understanding, and the models are not quite good enough to create a forecast or a model.

He grew up in Excel and still uses it to organize his thoughts and run an analysis because of the spatial organization. A lot of the output people are still creating is a model, and that model could be hosted somewhere else, but he wants a tool for refining his understanding and playing with the work by hand. He ties the habit to Figma. Prompting and natural language can take an initial stab at a first draft, and sometimes it is easier to riff and make changes directly. On a screen someone has designed, an agent can be prompted to change the background from red to green. A color wheel shows all the different shades and the real feel of what is going on. Excel works the same way for him. Something better may exist in the future, but ripping Excel away would be really hard.