Charlie LiuGlobal Chief Customer Happiness Officer | CEO Founder, FCFO & CFO Tech Advisory, MCC Inc. · Founder CEO & CFO Advisory at MCC Inc - FP&A Experts & Top Tier Vena Partner | Driving Financial Excellence | Chief Happiness Officer

Making Cents with Charlie - Rapid Fire with Eugene

25 Mar 2026 · 2 min

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In this brief rapid‑fire segment of the "Making Cents with Charlie" podcast, host Charlie (Speaker A) asks guest Eugene (Speaker B) a series of quick‑fire preference questions. Eugene answers coffee over Red Bull, prefers light mode, and uses SUMIFS instead of VLOOKUP or INDEX‑MATCH. The conversation then shifts to a reflection on the biggest professional mistake, with Eugene citing a bad hire. Finally, Eugene vents about the overused corporate buzzword "enablement," calling it a cringey term that should be eliminated. The exchange is light‑hearted, informal, and punctuated with humor, ending with mutual thanks and a playful sign‑off from a third speaker.

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Well, Eugene, let's end this with just some rapid-fire questions I think will be fun. So just give me the first idea or thought that comes to your head. Coffee or Red Bull?
Coffee.
Dark mode or light mode? Light mode. Oh God, you're disgusting. No, I live with yourself. VLOOKUP or INDEX MATCH? I know there's better ones now. I know the audience, I know there's XLOOKUP, but Eugene and I came from an older time? VLOOKUP or INDEX MATCH?
Neither. I use SUMIFS.
Ooh, I got— I can see that. Biggest mistake, a bad hire or a bad formula somewhere? Bad hire. Bad hire. I wanna say bad hire, but I've done some advisory work where I'm like, ooh, I messed up there. Thank God we Caught in time. Cringiest corporate jargon that you love to just get rid, get rid of this, get rid from the surface of this earth?
Oh, it would be a contentious one. I mean, it would be enablement. It's so overly used and it's a solution to everything. There's a lot more to enablement. Processes, learnings, critical thinking. There's a lot more to cover than simple enablement. So I would love to write that off the face of the earth and toss it into the ocean.
I love it. Well, thank you so much, Eugene, for doing this with me. Thank you for being at MCC with me and also being at MCC Podcast with me. Oh, thank you. This is a lot of fun.
This is a lot of fun. Same here.
Let's make sense with Charlie. Serious business on serious hoes.