All articles tagged with #pitch deck
Jeff Dean, Google’s longtime chief scientist, revealed slides for his new AI startup Discovery Loop, highlighting the founders’ Google-built successes (Search, Ads, Gmail, Gemini, TPUs) and a plan to automate the experimental loop in AI research, with Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals aboard; initial funding is led by Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures, with Alphabet participating.
Aether, a company that raised $49 million in a Series A funding round, has released its pitch deck which focuses on extracting lithium from previously inaccessible reserves. However, the deck downplays this use case, which is the smallest opportunity mentioned. Despite this, the deck does have some positive aspects, including a bold vision, impressive competitive advantages, and addressing challenges in the industry. The article also mentions that Aether could have improved certain aspects of the pitch deck.
A leaked sales deck for the failed Fyre Festival in 2017 contains the pitch CEO Billy McFarland gave investors ahead of the event. The sales deck contains misleading information about Fyre Festival and has been described as "beyond parody." McFarland got investors to pump $26 million into his company, money he was ordered to forfeit after he was sentenced to six years in prison for fraud. The pitch deck includes exaggerated claims and outright lies that would eventually doom the festival.