pitch deck

“I don't need to see those numbers because they're made up numbers anyway. They're guesses in many ways.”

“Because as it turns out, the purpose of a deck is not to answer all questions about a business. It's to create ground for, like, interesting discussions to come. Like, VCs, in general, are interested people, and they want to be curious at the end of a presenta…”

“The first pitch deck we had was terrible. It was like, 60 slides, it had, it took like, an hour to go through, and it talked about all of the things that Picketail could become. It was just like, it was such a visionary, like, naive, we're going to take over t…”

“Decks are a very efficient way to communicate, and you still need to iron out all the details of what you're doing, and you should have a white paper, but you need to have a friendlier entry point for investors, employees, and partners alike”

“I can't think of one case where I sent out a pitch deck before the pitch, and the person then wanted to actually invest.”

“If you only have one deck with one pitch, you're doing it wrong. You've got to try different avenues of attack. You've got to try different language. You've got to try different pitches to determine which of these work.”