PowerPoint
4 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 4, 2025 by Jon Noronha · across every show →
Everything said about PowerPoint, oldest first
Sep 4, 2025 neutral
Noronha: Presentation Competitors Only Built PowerPoint Editors, Never Rethinking the Format
“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.”
Sep 4, 2025
Noronha: Presentation software fails if it doesn't interoperate with legacy workflows
“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 …”
Sep 4, 2025 neutral
Noronha: Keynote and Google Slides Are Just PowerPoint Clones in Suites
“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.”
Sep 4, 2025
Noronha: PowerPoint and Google Slides have roughly 1B combined monthly users
“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.”