Billion Dollar Pitch Decks

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80points
17comments
#721of 2,570 in 2022
Top 29%of 2022 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

2 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score -0.11.

Idea: 1 for, 4 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Commenters enjoy seeing real decks, including imperfect ones

    From 2 comments
    • I love the site. Its encouraging how simple and cheesy a lot of them. They even have errors. For instance, Airbnb slide 7 says $84M trips with Airbnb (they should not have had…
      bko on HN
    • This is so nice to see how shitty some decks look like but how profitable and good the businesses are! Cool thanks for that :)
      jack335 on HN

Objections

  • Commenters doubt all the decks are from billion-dollar companies

    From 2 comments
    • Are you sure all these are billion-dollar companies? I highly doubt that. This is just a collection of startup pitch decks, some of which are unicorns.
      chirau on HN
    • Was wondering the same thing, honestly the only brand that stood out was Airbnb, I haven't heard of most of the others.
      samspenc on HN
  • Many decks seem too narrow or template-based to be useful

    From 2 comments
    • I looked at maybe a dozen of these decks. The only one that made any kind of sense to me was AirBnB's. I've never raises funds, or even watched it happen. But given how these…
      specialist on HN
    • I looked at the Sequoia capital deck and it was just a template. What’s interesting about that?
      op00to on HN

Requests

  • Separate the startup digest from the pitch decks into different domains

    From 1 comment
    • Good website. But I would rather split startup digest and pitch decks into separate domains. It will make those projects better focused.
      sweatC on HN
  • Add a collection of $2 million pitch decks

    From 1 comment
  • Include the email versions of decks that got meetings

    From 1 comment
    • Though decks can be a good resource, I find talking through a deck easy. I'd be keen to see the email versions that got the meetings. Yes, I know, most meetings are going to come…
      pedalpete on HN

Questions

  • How did these companies get their first 100 users?

    From 1 comment
    • I would be rather interested in how they got the first 100 users. Raising money is the easy part.
      ilrwbwrkhv on HN
  • Did any of these companies make money?

    From 1 comment

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