The puzzling thing about this is the right to invest. Surely founders who'd pay a "deck designer" $20-40k are the last ones you'd want to invest in.https://twitter.com/JasonrShuman/status/1207869785402486791 …
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I have never voluntarily looked at a startup's deck. As soon as a founder starts to open their laptop, I ask them to stop, and just tell me in words what their startup does.
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It's not just that I hate decks. Explaining a startup in conversation is a much more exacting test.
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What do you think is missing from the current
@ycombinator application process? They admit turning away a lot of promising companies and making mistakes. What else could be done to fix that?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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If I knew of something specific they could change, I'd have already suggested it.
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