Presentations

“Presentations are a naturally episodic use case, which means we can't expect on our prosumer base to have more than a hundred percent net revenue retention.”

“It still doesn't create good presentation. Still doesn't create good financial models. Still writes like pretty poor docs.”

“A lot of CEOs outsource their presentation to a junior manager. Don't do that. It's your voice. When somebody else does it, it's not your voice. It's a voice over. A voice over is very different from a voice.”

“I've never outsourced my presentations to anybody. I do it myself. Number one. I've never repeated a presentation in 30 years of my life.”

“Well, what's the new clip art? It's going to be AI-generated imagery, like for sure. It's going to be like personalized, hyper-themed imagery on every slide that feels seamless.”

“Just because the presentation is good or bad, it has nothing to do with whether you should necessarily invest or not. Sometimes you have to be awake to the possibility of what it's going to be, regardless of how messed up the presentation is.”

“One of the reasons for so many bad presentations, one of the reasons that so many people are worse at sales than they could be is because few people actually express excitement about what they're speaking about.”

“A lot of communication experts will watch like a presentation And they'll go, well, I think you should move your hands more or less, or I think you should speak up. Like they're doing that through their perceptual lens. They're not optimizing for the engagemen…”

“But when you present to execs, you should start with the conclusion. And then, if they already agree with you, stop presenting. Like, there's no reason to keep presenting.”

“So this motion of traversing between what is, what could be, what is, what could be, what is, what could be that sense of longing for the future. It makes people leave their current state or the status quo or our current reality and makes them long for this fu…”

“The concept that each slide should make one point, so your whole presentation should be grounded in what we call the audience journey, which is the big idea, where you're trying to move them from, where you're trying to move them to, and then a big idea is wha…”

“Make the title the takeaway of the slide. So that the person looking at it has to do zero work to take away. So example, you'll sometimes see like the problem or the team. Replace like the team with our team, you know, is a veterans of whatever industry or eve…”

“Stories are vastly more memorable. It's how we are tuned to package information. Bullet points are for memos, not for presentations. Bullet points are overrated as a way of containing information.”

“A great ending is usually a story, frankly, because a story has a conclusion and it's got that appropriate moment for surprise or laughter or applause.”

“Presentations is actually our largest use case and our fastest growing and alongside things like video and other content types as well.”

“Number of presentations, Sean, actually went up by 150% in COVID because more people were communicating remotely.”

“If you want to exchange or deliver information to a group of people, one of the worst ways to do it is with a live verbal presentation. If your goal is actually to deliver that scientific paper or that insight, then you should either write a book or write a me…”