Board Deck
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5 statements about Board Deck, every show
Cool: Board decks should be ~20 slides focused on discussion
“Like, I don't think any slide deck should be 112 for a board. I mean, usually there's 20 slides, maybe, that get to the heart of the most important topics you're facing at a time, and then most of the time should be discussion and not presentation.”
Howard Lerman: The best time to send board decks is Saturday morning
“The best time to send a board deck is Saturday morning, the week before your board meeting”
Palihapitiya requires standard cash burn reporting for every board role
“In every board that I take, the first thing that I say is, here's a template I want. I'm not going to ask you a bunch of stuff, but I just want some transparent reporting. And the first page is always, how much money at the beginning of the month? How much mon…”
Mehrotra: Pitch Investors with Your Actual Internal Board Deck
“I always, my view of it is show your investors your board deck that you use to run your own company. And if you're not willing to do that, then that's a problem because you're running a company differently.”
Chaudhary: ClassDojo shares board decks and financials with all employees
“So internally in the company, everything is public. Like we board decks are public, financials are public. You have all the information to make like a globally optimal decision about what you should do next, rather than like just getting a sliver of informatio…”