I help founders make killer pitch decks | $2+ Billion raised | Mediocre Angel | VC Prof | Founder @ OPTIO and Secret Agency | Brother to @LeadershipAcad1
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Four simple rules for making killer pitch decks:
1) Be simple, not precise - no one reads the 5th bullet
2) Show, don't tell - visualize everything
3) Say what you mean - State your argument clearly on every slide
4) Tell a story - think campfire, not conference room
Matt Gore Pitch Deck Cowboy retweeted
Modern Screwtape letters
Demons giving temptation advice
My brother is writing the
MULCIFER LETTERS
here’s an excerpt (I dare you to read any of these and not feel the brilliance)
Remember this is a demon writing advice to another demon….
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Tummy Ache
It is time to make your patient self-righteous.
It is time to give her a dietary preference.
Years ago, Americans judged one another viciously for their sexual mores — who was sleeping with whom, and how. Those were rich veins to mine for gossip, judgment, and the self-righteousness that follows.
They still judge each other for sex, of course, but secretly. Officially, such matters are off limits now — “love is love,” and all that.
Thus our official policy: substitute food for sex. If you cannot hate them for their polycule, hate them for their lunch.
Start by having her “do her own research” on diets. The American food system is a triumph of corruption and mediocrity, so you have a great deal to work with. ... go to website to read the rest
Link to full website in next comment
I should fire myself. I just met with an English client wearing an Argentina hat and an American World Cup shirt.
Putting myself in timeout.
Matt Gore Pitch Deck Cowboy retweeted
This is the simple reason why investment bankers, consultants and lawyers will never get fully automated by AI
The acquisition was predicted in their seed pitch deck
MAJOR LEAK
I found the @techbrospod's pitch deck in Palmer Luckey's sauna
They're raising 20M on a quarter billion post
Here's my complete breakdown:
Business owners:
what’s the most money someone’s stolen from you? How’d they do it?
Here’s a wild one:
Employee stole money by sending it to his mom. Fired him, Never got the money back.
Then he sent unsolicited dick pics to another employee.
Result? Pics forwarded to mom.
Founders are leaving 30u30 out of their pitch decks
I’ve had three clients do this now
Negative signal
If he’d had @LucyNic Italy would be bombing Iran right now
Another reason I will not be a great man
Great men of history had little to no introspection.
The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself.
@pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about:
David: You don't have any levels of introspection?
Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible.
David: Why?
Marc: Move forward. Go!
I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home.
David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection.
Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self.
He just woke up and was like:
I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again.
Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective.
All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s.
Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff.
The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology.
And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual.
We need to criticize the individual.
The individual needs to self criticize.
The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past.
It never resonated with me.
Matt Gore Pitch Deck Cowboy retweeted
I read an entire book on the daily habits of great thinkers.
My takeaway: they do an enormous amount of caffeine, nicotine, booze, and drugs.
So yeah I’m on a full can of Lucy a day.
