Matt RyderEx-special ops sniper turned CEO revolutionizing sales calls

POV: you got 20 NPCs fired with 1 excel sheet ($40M/year CEO)

2 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this informal, profanity‑laden monologue, Matt Ryder recounts a story about a young employee at a massive corporation who was tasked with reconciling 12,000 daily transactions—a job that previously required a 20‑person team. The employee promised to automate the process in a week, built an Excel macro, and reduced the reconciliation to a one‑hour, 100 % accurate operation. The company, faced with the prospect of massive layoffs, kept the solution secret while the employee was sent around to other departments to replicate the automation. Ryder uses the anecdote to illustrate how powerful Excel and Google Sheets macros can be, describing them as capable of handling CRM functions, triggering emails, and fully automating workflows. He also hints at the broader implication that such automation can lead to large‑scale job displacement.

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Hey, man, everyone's going to get fired, so we have to play this really fucking cool. There was a guy at a really large company, one of the world's largest companies. They had to reconcile 12,000 transactions a day, so they had like 20 people doing it. This young dude came, he knew Excel. He goes, if you give me a week, I'll automate everything. His boss goes, okay. He wrote a macro that reconciled 12,000 transactions with 100% accuracy in an hour. They were like, what do we do now? We tell nobody. Then he was flown around to the different departments. To systemize them, and the conversation was like, "Hey man, everyone's gonna get fired, so we have to play this really fucking cool." He's like, "Yeah, yeah, cool." This macro done. Excel is so powerful; it's almost mind-boggling. In Excel and in Google Sheets, there's macros, and macros can do anything. So you could have it set up as a CRM to where, like the moment someone bought, it sent to the spreadsheet, then that would automatically tick a box. That box tick would activate that email to be sent out. So you can literally automate the whole thing.