Pitch Deck

The more inflated the language in your startup's pitch, the less convincing it seems. If you're a seed stage company, don't tell me you're transforming global this or poised to dominate that. Tell me you noticed something that might turn out to be an overlooked opportunity.

In 2004, Zuck invented social media from his dorm room and gained 70,000 users in a month In 2023, Meta is a $1T company with 3B users Here's Fakebook's original pitch deck:

Loom sold for $975MM Here's a side-by-side comparison of their pre-seed and seed pitch decks:

Slide decks hide can shallow thinking. Narratively structured memos are harder to write because they require better thinking. It’s worth it.