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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft PowerPoint comes up
Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020)
Pressbox and Tide Cleaners: Vijen Patel. The $1.99 Gamble That Built a National Brand
- ▶ 5:00 Vijen Patel Something around that, that number, but I, at the end of the day, the end of our work always culminated in a PowerPoint presentation, and so it just felt like there was something left to be desired.
- ▶ 1:00:26 Vijen Patel You know, I could finally, for the first time, I made a PowerPoint slide again, and, you know, all of our employees who were making 15, 20, 25 dollars an hour because we didn't have more capital, all of a sudden, they got a pay raise.
Talenti: Josh Hochschuler
- ▶ 8:07 Josh Hochschuler So, they wanted me to do Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoints and stay there all night printing things on the printer, and then collating them, and then stapling them, and then, so
- ▶ 14:32 Josh Hochschuler I put it, like, onto a little PowerPoint, and I walked around, and anyone who would listen to me, I asked them, which, which idea do you like better?
UNTUCKit: Chris Riccobono
- ▶ 4:27 Chris Riccobono I'm not great at Excel or PowerPoint or all the socializing you need to do to move up.
- ▶ 20:19 Chris Riccobono I couldn't put together a beautiful PowerPoint to go raise money. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:15 Guy Raz He was helping you kind of craft the PowerPoints and build a business model?
Tecovas: Paul Hedrick
- ▶ 21:26 Paul Hedrick I created a PowerPoint deck, met with him.
Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day: Monica Nassif
- ▶ 1:09:50 Monica Nassif And, uh, I just saw my future as death by PowerPoint.
BARK: Matt Meeker
- ▶ 7:53 Matt Meeker And it meant we spent a lot of days in conference rooms talking about PowerPoints, and when we got stuck on things, we hired consulting firms to help solve those.
On athletic shoes: Olivier Bernhard and Caspar Coppetti
- ▶ 45:07 Olivier Bernhard So why, instead of trying to convince them what our tech does, and you know, with a PowerPoint presentation, why don't we just bring shoes, we go run in their environment.
Charging up the electric vehicle market with RJ Scaringe of Rivian
- ▶ 18:58 RJ Scaringe Yeah, so they're with like a PowerPoint explaining who is Rivian.
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020)
- ▶ 20:19 Luis von Ahn So I use, I use PowerPoint. 2 times in the scene
Orgain: Andrew Abraham
- ▶ 31:13 Andrew Abraham I don't have a fancy PowerPoint presentation prepared.
Bluemercury: Marla and Barry Beck
- ▶ 17:20 Marla Beck I think at a certain point, we knew we had hidden the idea, and we developed like a ten-page PowerPoint, and we were gonna go try to raise money.
HIBT Lab! Armbrust American: Lloyd Armbrust
- ▶ 16:19 Lloyd Armbrust I did the worst PowerPoint presentation of my life.
M.M.LaFleur: Sarah LaFleur (2020)
- ▶ 11:16 Sarah LaFleur Uh, I didn't know how to do PowerPoint.
Policygenius: Jennifer Fitzgerald
- ▶ 57:22 Jennifer Fitzgerald Into the system to get, to generate quotes, then we put those quotes into a custom PowerPoint presentation for the quote requester. 2 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience: Jennifer Neundorfer of January Ventures
- ▶ 18:59 Jennifer Neundorfer You need to get the points across, but then we, we hear how the founder would tell their story rather than flipping through on a static PowerPoint.
Khan Academy: Sal Khan
Zocdoc: Oliver Kharraz
- ▶ 0:03 Oliver Kharraz Uh, Cyrus ended up going door to door for doctor's offices, actually showing them a PowerPoint page, and this is really a testament to Cyrus's sheer will and determination.
- ▶ 13:52 Oliver Kharraz You know, we, what we, what we started doing is actually mocking up, uh, the site, uh, and how we imagined it back then, uh, in PowerPoint and just the, the image of a website. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:04 Oliver Kharraz So, uh, Cyrus ended up going door to door for doctor's offices, actually showing them a PowerPoint page. 2 times in the scene
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn
- ▶ 20:07 Luis von Ahn So I use, I use PowerPoint. 2 times in the scene
S'well: Sarah Kauss
- ▶ 25:22 Sarah Kauss I started designing the product actually in PowerPoint.
Stripe: Patrick and John Collison (2018)
M.M.LaFleur: Sarah LaFleur
- ▶ 11:00 Sarah LaFleur Uh, I didn't know how to do PowerPoint.
Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker
- ▶ 0:05 Tristan Walker I remember the very first pitch deck, which was a PowerPoint of graduated to keynote, but like we had a PowerPoint of like clip art because I didn't have 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:59 Tristan Walker Actually, I remember the very first pitch deck, which was a PowerPoint. 2 times in the scene
Framebridge: Susan Tynan (2017)
- ▶ 22:53 Susan Tynan I say we because there were some people on the PowerPoint, um, pitch check who now have joined.
Live Episode! RXBAR: Peter Rahal
- ▶ 25:33 Peter Rahal You know, we couldn't afford, um, a, like, proper packaging, um, so we just, we designed it on PowerPoint, and then we would send the. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:58 Peter Rahal Instead of going to a designer, we went to PowerPoint.
Honest Tea: Seth Goldman (2017)
- ▶ 6:07 Seth Goldman These days, people really put together PowerPoints.
Patagonia: Yvon Chouinard (2016)
Framebridge: Susan Tynan
- ▶ 22:37 Susan Tynan I say we because there were some people on the PowerPoint, um, pitch check who now have joined.
Warby Parker: Dave Gilboa & Neil Blumenthal
- ▶ 12:55 Neil Blumenthal Um, we actually prepared a PowerPoint, um, because even though this was going to be a vendor that we were buying from,