PowerPoint

“I think coding is a sign for what's to come in every domain. And a lot of the primitives established there are carrying over to other places. You know, if you have a very good coding agent chances are you have a model that can also make PowerPoint slides or DC…”

“There's like a billion people that use PowerPoint and Google Slides every month, and they're not happy with it.”

“Well, everyone needs just a chat tool for sure. The engineers all need a tool like a cursor or cloud code or whatever. And it turns out the third use case that's bubbling up over and over is presentations. People are wasting all this time just like formatting …”

“And so we did build a PowerPoint export, but probably a year too late. I think we should have listened to the signals earlier on of people just telling us this is what they wanted.”

“If you think about who's buying the Google suite or the Microsoft Office suite, nobody's doing it by comparing the feature set of PowerPoint versus Google Slides. They're, instead, they're comparing Outlook versus Gmail, and maybe after that, like, Word versus…”

“I think probably the biggest difference between the Excel workflow and the PowerPoint workflow is creativity and taste. There's less objective definition of what good looks like and there's much more room for the user and also the brand to express themselves. …”

“Jeff hated PowerPoint and the famous story why it it's old now, but when the space shuttle Challenger exploded, They went and found the PowerPoint slide had been used to justify the launch. And this PowerPoint had like seven levels of nested bullets and the ti…”

“I learned skills that will be redundant, like Excel and PowerPoint. Not gonna matter in five years, but we're very helpful in the first 10 years of my career.”

“They have not let PMs provide like PowerPoint or keynote presentations on product for like two years. Every presentation on product has to be a workable demo, and they just expect the PMs to create the products, and the execs just refuse to look at static, you…”

“Stories don't begin on slides. Stories begin with the words that we're going to speak or the words that are going to be on the page or some combination of the two. Slides should be used to support a story only when necessary. They should not be the story.”

“We don't do PowerPoints and go through all that nonsense where everyone tells each other how great they're doing. It's just the silliness that you see a lot in corporate America. We send all those decks out ahead of time. We have everybody read them, and then …”

“The stat that I heard when we started the company was that PowerPoint and Google slides each have Something like five hundred million monthly active users. So there's like a billion people making presentations every month.”

“And the other tools I thought of that came to mind were there's keynote and Google slides, which are successful products, but to me, they're basically just PowerPoint clones for a different platform bolted into like sort of a suite.”

“My feeling was nobody had tried rethinking the format itself of a presentation. They tried to make better PowerPoint editors, but it was still just making the same. 16 by nine slide format that you click through with like clip art and text.”

“We don't exist in an island. So people would say, yeah, I made something kind of cool in your product, but if I can't turn it into a PDF at the end of the day to send it to the client, then it's useless to me. In fact, it's worse than useless because I wasted …”

“PowerPoint or whatever, whatever tool you're using. I mean, like, just be careful about being overly reliant upon it. It just, it's. Especially when you have a combustible founder who may take you off path such that your deck in its current order makes no sens…”

“We made a call that we would kind of rebuild our version of like PowerPoint, Word, and Excel, because we do believe, at least for the time being, that the way in which people interact with technology, regardless of type of technology, will remain quite consist…”

“Steve said, I want you to keep three things in mind. One is it should be difficult to make ugly presentations. Two, you should focus on cinematic quality transitions. And three, you should optimize for innovation over PowerPoint compatibility.”

“Things have to be simple, understandable and repeatable, right? If your message is simple, it means someone else can understand it. And if somebody else can understand it, that means they can repeat it even imperfectly without you in the room, without your Pow…”

“We still sell seats predominantly. I think it depends just a lot of the product, right? I think the way to think about Sulthesia right now is PowerPoint two point zero, right? And like PowerPoint is one of those things where we have thousands of people using t…”

“The customers who bought Proposify to send beautiful proposals and get faster sign-off, that messaging didn't really resonate with the mid-market, because they're like, we have cool PowerPoint decks, like, we know how to send proposals. What they really wanted…”

“Forethought was the company that made PowerPoint. Microsoft acquired the first major acquisition for the company.”

“I would think that pretty soon you'll just be able to stick a PowerPoint or business plan into an AI model, and 30 seconds later, it'll give you a thumbs up or thumbs down.”

“The reason writing a four page memo is harder than writing a 20 page PowerPoint is because the narrative structure of a good memo forces better thought and better understanding of what's more important than what and how things are related. PowerPoint style pre…”

“We don't do PowerPoints at meetings as a general rule. We do discussions at meetings, interactive, lively discussions.”

“PowerPoint is really designed to persuade. It's kind of a sales tool. And internally, the last thing you want to do is sell. You want to, you're again, you're truth seeking. You're trying to find truth. And the other problem with PowerPoint is it's easy for th…”

“The thing about writing something down as opposed to putting it on a slide is you need to think things through, and I'll say this. I write for a living. It's the most painful thing. You know, it's a terrible decision as a career because it hurts. And the reaso…”

“A prototype is worth a hundred meetings. And if you can have a discussion around a PowerPoint with bullet points and stuff, I mean, you're going to miss so much. You're going to have unnecessary disagreements and debates, and you're not going to have everyone …”

“The reason Amazon moved to the six-page memo process was in part because they felt like PowerPoint and the prevalence of PowerPoint in meetings gave too much power to charismatic speakers.”

“The other thing you could do is what you get from sort of the investment ranking world, which is where I started, where what you call a slide is actually a book. And it's, you're printing it out, so you would have sort of, the, typically the slide is split int…”

“When you think about what would be more effective for making decisions in a meeting or getting input into people's heads, it would clearly be the Amazon approach of doing these six-page memos.”

“The underlying commonality and the spark that we look for is product first thinking. Like it doesn't mean that somebody we have even invested in companies which are in PowerPoint or sometimes even pre PowerPoint. So it's not that somebody has to have a product…”

“I think it's an interesting combination of something every company needs, but something that is overlooked, and Really, there's no solid software for it out there. Everybody can still build org charts in PowerPoint and Visio.”

“For me, I mean, I tweeted that I'm kind of 90% there on this. The gap for me is doing charts in PowerPoint.”

“Some of the worst investments I've made We're two really smart people with a PowerPoint deck, and I was like, oh my gosh, their vision, and they're so articulate, and they're so smart, and it never tends to work.”

“Mostly PowerPoint but we do have some, you know, former Prezi people that also, you know, are looking for a more efficient way to do it.”

“So my first advice is to have slides. They're not only useful for fundraising, but the PowerPoint deck has become the de facto business plan. It can substitute for your mission statement, vision statement, etc. Like, there's never not a good time to have a goo…”