Puri: Most Pitch Decks Fail Due to Jumbled Messaging, Not Design
Shaan Puri · This AI Startup Idea Has 500 Million Customers Waiting For It · Feb 23, 2024 · at 5:57
Sean Puri discusses common presentation mistakes and how people focus on aesthetics rather than narrative clarity.
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“Most decks are terrible, and they're not, and everybody attacks this from a, how do we make the slides fancier? Prezi's like, hey, what if you were hang gliding while you were looking at the slide deck? He's like, no, no, Prezi, just chill out. It's not, that's not what we need. And other people pitch is like, you know what if a designer just designed everything? It's like, cool, but the actual message is the part that's out of order, jumbled up and unclear. It's foggy. And that's why this deck is no good. Not because the background color needs to be soft pastel pink.”
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