Tech History & Trends
TikTok took about 9 months to reach 100 million users. This chatbot, launched in 2022, got there in 2.
What is ChatGPT?
This team member is a triplet.
Who is Bruce Benson?
With at least 6 completed so far this year, the Tech Practice has found success with this type of project.
What are Business Plan Reviews?
This Excel 'Audit' shortcut (or name) draws blue arrows to all cells that provide data to the currently selected formula.
What is Trace Precedents (Ctrl + [ or Alt + T + U + T)?
The Apple I, Apple's first computer, debuted in this year.
What is 1976?
This team member studied in the US, Europe, and Asia.
Who is Tom Xu?
This was the Tech team's biggest account in the first half of 2026.
What is NCR?
This PowerPoint shortcut increases the font size of selected text.
What is Ctrl + Shift + > or Ctrl ]?
Once growing about 20% a year, these companies' revenue growth has fallen to roughly half of that pace as AI disrupts their value proposition.
What is Software?
This team member started a business in Brazil and lived there for several years, despite not being Brazilian.
Who is Nick Molina?
These 5 sub-sectors make up the first priority sub-sectors for the Tech Practice.
What are Enterprise SaaS, Vertical SaaS, AdTech/MarTech, EdTech and Training, Cybersecurity & Networking?
This phrase describes doing work that makes a project unnecessarily complex by trying to analyze or fix everything at once - something consultants try to avoid.
What is "boiling the ocean"?
In 1994, this company bought history's first banner ad on HotWired, asking "Have you ever clicked your mouse right HERE?"
What is AT&T?
Whose banner pointed to the words "YOU WILL"
This team member spent 10 years training for boxing / MMA with Golden Gloves and UFC coaches.
Who is Debbie Waung?
These 3 components are considered the pillars of our Tech Practice.
What are Business Transformation, Transactions, and Restructuring?
Pressing Ctrl + ~ (key left of 1), toggles an Excel sheet between showing values and showing these.
What are formulas?
Announced in January 2022 and closed in October 2023 after a roughly 21-month regulatory fight, this deal is among the largest tech acquisitions in history.
What is Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard?
For an estimated $69B
This team member is related to Emma Lazarus, the poet whose "The New Colossus" poem on the Statue of Liberty includes the famous lines "Give me your tired, your poor… I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
Who is Drew Burke?
The Tech team, in its current form, was established in this year.
What is 2018?
This Easy Slides feature should be used before sending a deck to ensure formatting consistency and spelling / punctuation accuracy.
What is Slide check?