Spreadsheets play a huge role at early stages of any complex business. Almost no early stage business has a budget and competence for maintaining a dev team cap

Spreadsheets play a huge role at early stages of any complex business. Almost no early stage business has a budget and competence for maintaining a dev team capable of producing working code at its rate of change. When it does, we call it “a software startup”. Success rate is still questionable, so people call these investments “venture”. People create spreadsheet messes not because they are stupid or lazy. They do what everyone else itt would deem impossible: create and evolve a mostly working system as needed while doing their regular job. I’ve helped to migrate both excel-based and software-based enterprises. Few factories on foxpro/clipper, a couple of realties and one leasing on excel. There’s no real difference in how much gray hair you get in the process. Pretty sure if some company came to ours with what we see in TFA and asked us to help with migration, we’d laugh for a week straight.