I've collected over 600 pitch decks • Hacker News Board

Re: I've collected over 600 pitch decks

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Post by jedberg » Tue, May 26, 2020, 3:17 AM UTC

joeblau wrote: post #49

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/

Wow funny. I did my analysis before this but I guess they’ve been using the template internally for a while.

Re: I've collected over 600 pitch decks

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Post by arnonejoe » Tue, May 26, 2020, 3:20 AM UTC

The demographics slide from Facebooks pitch deck in 2004 is pretty hilarious. I wonder if sean parker created this.

https://starthouse.xyz/facebook

Re: I've collected over 600 pitch decks

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Post by jkingsman » Tue, May 26, 2020, 3:27 AM UTC

arnonejoe wrote: post #52

The demographics slide from Facebooks pitch deck in 2004 is pretty hilarious. I wonder if sean parker created this. https://starthouse.xyz/facebook

I feel dumb but I don't get it... do the first two pertain to the third's kegstand?

Re: I've collected over 600 pitch decks

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Post by Forgeties79 » Tue, May 26, 2020, 3:40 AM UTC

peterpeppers wrote: post #35

WatchDog wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Women don't have feet?

We stand on the seat on public restrooms....or hover.

One of these sounds harder than the other but I keep changing my mind as to which...

Re: I've collected over 600 pitch decks

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Post by Reedx » Tue, May 26, 2020, 3:48 AM UTC

Related, I think it'd be interesting to see a compilation of projected revenue from pitches vs actual.

Re: I've collected over 600 pitch decks

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Post by gitgud » Tue, May 26, 2020, 4:17 AM UTC

It's the funny that Facebook were pitching advertising to investors in 2004, and they didn't have any ads until 2007.

It's also interesting that there's no information on sources or anything to explain these pitch decks. I'm pretty sure the original would not start with "Facebook's original pitch deck", so how much each pitch has been altered?

Also survivor-ship bias... these are all highly sucessful companies with amazing products. It would also be great to see how failed businesses still got funding, e.g; "Juicero" or "Theranos"...

https://starthouse.xyz/facebook

https://about.fb.com/news/2007/11/facebook-unveils-facebook-...

Re: I've collected over 600 pitch decks

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Post by shp0ngle » Tue, May 26, 2020, 4:25 AM UTC

Well, now it's time to train a GAN network on these to create new pitches from scratch.

Re: I've collected over 600 pitch decks

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Post by eru » Tue, May 26, 2020, 4:44 AM UTC

dorkwood wrote: post #8

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

I believe it's the view you'd see under a toilet stall.

Americans have weirdly exhibitionist toilets.

(But then they think German sauna is weird.)

Re: I've collected over 600 pitch decks

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Post by nojvek » Tue, May 26, 2020, 4:48 AM UTC

shp0ngle wrote: post #57

Well, now it's time to train a GAN network on these to create new pitches from scratch.

AI generated AI startups. Why not?

Re: I've collected over 600 pitch decks

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Post by rainyMammoth » Tue, May 26, 2020, 5:06 AM UTC

dorkwood wrote: post #8

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

I believe it's the view you'd see under a toilet stall.

I still don't get it. Why is there nothing for Womens