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“Dumbest idea I’ve heard” to $100M ARR: Inside the rise of Gamma | Grant Lee (co-founder) Nov 13, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 21:48 Lenny Rachitsky Like hearing this, I could see why investors would be like, you know, like, I guess so, but Slides has been around, PowerPoint has been around for 40 years.
  • ▶ 1:05:44 Grant Lee We just tell you, Hey, this is an alternative to PowerPoint.
  • ▶ 1:14:19 Grant Lee We thought we could actually introduce that could be better than how you work in PowerPoint today.
  • ▶ 1:21:12 Grant Lee And the default tool today is going into like a PowerPoint or Google slides where

How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma Aug 28, 2025 · 1 mention

Brian Chesky's secret mentor who scaled Airbnb (after dying 9 times & building a hotel empire) Aug 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:27 Chip Conley And don't, I think the other thing is, um, PowerPoint or whatever, whatever tool you're using.

35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest and beyond | Bob Baxley Jun 12, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 39:29 Bob Baxley And three, you should optimize for innovation over PowerPoint compatibility. 2 times in the scene

Rituals of Great Decision-Making | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024 Oct 31, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:19 Shishir Mehrotra The first one was, there was this really famous memo that got sent out from Jeff Bezos saying, no more PowerPoints.

Lessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack | Tamar Yehoshua Sep 26, 2024 · 1 mention

Building product at Stripe: craft, metrics, and customer obsession | Jeff Weinstein (Product lead) Jul 11, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:07:34 Jeff Weinstein We don't need to do big internal updates with long-winded PowerPoint presentations and scrambles the night before.

How to tell better stories | Matthew Dicks (Storyworthy) Dec 15, 2023 · 5 mentions

The ultimate guide to product operations | Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles Nov 16, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 52:21 Melissa Perri Sometimes those people are really good at Excel and PowerPoint, but they're not great at the Looker and BI.

Mastering product strategy and growing as a PM | Maggie Crowley (Toast, Drift, TripAdvisor) Nov 5, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:13:17 Maggie Crowley And I think one of the first pieces of content that I was really happy with was like, I was working with somebody and they were making a PowerPoint presentation slides or whatever.

What sets great teams apart | Lane Shackleton (CPO of Coda) Oct 1, 2023 · 3 mentions

The ultimate guide to A/B testing | Ronny Kohavi (Airbnb, Microsoft, Amazon) Jul 27, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:19:25 Ronny Kohavi But when I was at Amazon, I still remember that email from Jeff, which is no more PowerPoint. 2 times in the scene

Storytelling with Nancy Duarte: How to craft compelling presentations and tell a story that sticks Jun 1, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:37 Nancy Duarte They use PowerPoint, like we use whatever tool the brand wants, and we push it in each medium.

Building better roadmaps | Janna Bastow (Mind the Product, ProdPad) Oct 16, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 16:06 Janna Bastow One of the things that I've stopped doing is I used to sit down with a PowerPoint and start writing my deck in PowerPoint for slides now. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:58 Janna Bastow Now I can stop using PowerPoint or
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