October 2021
Beginner
336 pages
7h 40m
English
book
Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story and Designing Your Slides, 3rd Edition
by Jerry Weissman
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Chapter Ten
Design Your Slides as a Science
Case Studies: Bill Gurley, Benchmark Capital • Jeff Bezos, Amazon • Winston Churchill • Robert Cialdini • Dan Warmenhoven, Network Appliance • True Temper Tools • Joel Goldberg, ABC • Lawrence Lessig • Ludwig Mies van der Rohe • Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures • Reid Hoffman, Greylock Partners • William Wordsworth • Irwin Federman, USVP • Phil Knight, Nike • Carolyn Davidson • Andy Warhol • The Beatles
The purpose of a presentation deck is to enable entrepreneurs to effectively tell the story of their business. In many ways it’s like a structured scientific proof.…A well-organized deck will gradually transport the listener to the desired conclusion—“this will be a great investment.”1
Bill Gurley
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