What Keeps Excel as the heart of business: Chandoo
FP&A Today · 2025-07-03 · 1h 3m
Episode notes
Today’s guest barely needs an introduction. Purna Duggirala (aka, “Chandoo”) is a celebrity in Excel circles. Since 2004, Chandoo has been regularly sharing everything he learns working with Excel training hundreds of finance teams, and had roles including as Data Lead, Remuneration Modeling & Analytics for the New Zealand government. The 16-time Microsoft MVP runs Chandoo.org , which aims to “make you awesome in Excel and Power BI” getting 250,000 visitors per month from all over the world and his YouTube channel has 750,000 subscribers. His stated goal is “to make you awesome at Excel and Power BI”, and produces the go-to Excel resources from blog posts and videos to full online courses. My Excel Journey and Community building Skill gaps in FP&A Teams Power BI vs Excel vs Python Copilot - advantages and limits My favorite Excel function Check out Chandoo’s Free Data analyst course:
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