So it's the late '70s and not far from where Sneider worked, a guy named Dan Bricklin was sitting in class at Harvard Business School, bored out of his mind. GOLDSTEIN: Sneider says it could take a day - a really boring day - just to make one tweak. SNEIDER: Then you'd have to re-add and then cross-add. GOLDSTEIN: Allen Sneider worked as an accountant in Boston in the 1970s. But even making a tiny tweak was a huge hassle.ĪLLEN SNEIDER: You'd take out that large eraser and start erasing.
If you ran a business, your accountant would put in all your expenses, all your revenues, and you'd get this really detailed picture of how the business worked. But a spreadsheet used to be an actual sheet, a sheet of paper. JACOB GOLDSTEIN, BYLINE: When you say spreadsheet today, most people think of Microsoft Excel. Here's Jacob Goldstein of our Planet Money team.
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