“Excel has been foundational to the finance profession. Along with my old HP-12C calculator, it’s one of the tools that defined my early career.”That flexibility shaped how finance teams thought. Sharan recalled hosting “So What Meetings” — sessions held after weeks of model-building — to figure out what the numbers actually meant. “The challenge with Excel has always been that too much time is spent creating and formatting, and not enough time is spent on the ‘so what,’” he said.Nitesh Sharan , CFO of Soun ...