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I've collected over 600 pitch decks

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Re: I've collected over 600 pitch decks

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Post by drew_m »

ttul wrote: post #40

The pitch deck is only good if the concept, team, and opportunity are good. A pitch deck should not be hard to put together if you have those three things on your side. If you do not, no slick pitch deck will really help you.

Not that I have first-hand experience at successfully pitching for huge money, but I completely agree. A lot of successful companies have average pitch decks but have great content on their side. One takeaway I've gotten from this side-project is that with pitch decks design doesn't matter but story-telling does.

Re: I've collected over 600 pitch decks

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Post by mgamache »

good resource. I wish the decks had some metadata:

1) A date as there's a fashion to these decks and what worked a few years ago might be all wrong today 2) Did they get funded from the deck? 3) revenue (or user count) at the time of the deck 4) Market Size 5) Founder's previous exit (or connection to Google/FB etc..) I know this is difficult, but some founders can get money on an envelope sketch because they made VCs wealthy in the past.

I realize this is difficult data to get, but it would make the decks much more informative.

Re: I've collected over 600 pitch decks

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Post by drew_m »

luckydata wrote: post #38
dajohnson89 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you suspect they're fake?

In a couple spots I know they are. In others there's foresight that the founders simply wouldn't have had. In some the tone is clearly 2 year business student etc... they are not real pitch decks. I've seen more than my share of real ones to know the difference.

Sorry man... I'm sure you have good reasons to question the validity of some of them and I don't doubt your sincerity. It was my understanding that they are all legitimate. I don't want to promote a 2nd year business student's work as an original pitch deck so I can look more closely into the provenance of problem slides if you could name these and I'll either redact them or adjust the title accordingly. Thanks for bringing this up :)

Re: I've collected over 600 pitch decks

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Post by drew_m »

primogen wrote: post #7

Can somebody explain the images used to represent men and women on slide 16 of the Facebook pitch deck? [1] [1] https://starthouse.xyz/facebook

Kegstand? If so, fair play for them having that in one of their early pitch decks and still becoming one of our tech overloads. I felt if we put a foot out of line in our pitch deck we were sunk. Number don't lie though, they had serious traction...

Re: I've collected over 600 pitch decks

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Post by drew_m »

luckydata wrote: post #25

Most of those pitch decks are "after the fact" fabrications, not the actual original decks. I'm afraid this resource is nearly useless, even if I admire how much work went into it.

Thanks for the admiration for the work I put into it. It didn't take too much time and it was a fun project to work on :) I'll try to remedy the fabricated decks

Re: I've collected over 600 pitch decks

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Post by joeblau »

jedberg wrote: post #30

As a fun exercise once at YC Demo Day, I decided to categorize the information on each slide and then record the order the categories were presented. I then noted which presentations I found the most compelling. Sadly I can no longer find the notes, as they were on paper. I remember the categories I came up with: * Name of company * Problem being solved * Solution being offered * Total Addressable Market * Current re…

YC also has a post for their seed deck template[1].

[1] - https://blog.ycombinator.com/intro-to-the-yc-seed-deck/

Re: I've collected over 600 pitch decks

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Post by vertis »

fenwick67 wrote: post #48

The Uber pitch deck is amusing, including the quote "profitable by design" (Uber is still not profitable 10 years later)

It's interesting, but there is a real difference between, has found product-market fit but unprofitable because trying to grow in "silicon valley style" and no product-market fit and might never make money.

To my mind, Uber chooses to lose money. They don't have to spend 700m a year advertising, and they could probably trim the fat in other areas as well (and have in the case of COVID--19),

Leaving COVID--19 alone for a second, the operating expenses have to be taken with a grain of salt, I would be very surprised if they HAVE to do a lot of those to keep the business from falling apart.

Ref: https://news.crunchbase.com/news/understanding-uber-loses-mo...

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