How Excel Became a $100 Billion Opportunity** Presenting the work of Hiran de Silva. Red by Juniper. There is a gap in the market. Not a small inefficiency.Not a tooling...
Archive - March 2026
By Hiran de Silva Let’s talk about automation. Not the kind people say they’re doing.The kind that actually removes work. The Simple Reality of Automation Imagine your...
By Hiran de Silva Before we talk about automation… before we talk about what Excel can do… We need to establish something far more basic: What exactly is “current...
By Hiran de Silva There is an irony at the heart of how Excel is used across industry. Most of the work being done today…does not need to be done by people at all. Two...
By Hiran de Silva ‘A Better Way?’The Best Way?‘Stop Doing That, Do This Instead’? One of my favourite rants and explainers … on what people call...
The Absurdity at the Heart of Excel Social Media By Hiran de Silva If you spend any time watching Excel content on YouTube or LinkedIn, you’ll notice a very common...
By Hiran de Silva Voiceover Script Most spreadsheets in the world live alone. A spreadsheet is created.Data is imported.The analyst cleans it, reshapes it, joins it with...
A 30-Year Mis-Statement Is About to Be Tested By Hiran de Silva Over the last few days something interesting has happened. Whenever someone on LinkedIn posts yet another...
Why Microsoft changed the name, and why the confusion never really went away By Hiran de Silva There is a strange story inside Excel. It is a story about a tool, but it...
By Hiran de Silva There is a fascinating pattern hiding inside the history of spreadsheets. It only becomes visible when several different ideas are placed side by side...