The email provides advice for startup founders on optimizing pitch decks by removing competition and exit strategy slides, emphasizing the importance of demonstrating execution speed and focusing on long-term growth potential.
How to create a memo or deck for your startup by @gokulr
A great pitch is not hitting the right buzzwords or showing the right credentials
A great pitch is a strong conclusion that is supported by uncontroversial, logical, achievable statements that require no magical thinking... See more
There is no ideal pitch deck. The narrative depends on what you’re building—but I really like this one: 1. Vision for the world in 5 years 2. The novel wedge that will get you there 3. How you plan to distribute it 4. What could go wrong 5. What you’ll prove by the time you need…
Pitch-deck advice: I don't think I have ever seen a fundraising deck getting better by using a designer to design it. The same goes for using fancy tools like Figma, Keynote, https://t.co/SeKkLrTe6G, or Canva. At @ycombinator we recommend people to use Google Slides and keep it…
It's done! I read 3,000 startup pitch decks. I wanted to find what the incredible pitches had in common. Was there a "secret ingredient" unifying them? YES. The 4 best (that VCs wanted intros to) had the same talking point: