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The PitchDeckLive blog

Writing and pacing tips for pitches you deliver out loud.

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The Y Combinator Pitch Deck: What YC Partners Actually Look For

A guide to the YC pitch deck format and the rehearsal habits Y Combinator partners use to drill founders before Demo Day. Drawn from Kevin Hale, Michael Seibel, and Paul Graham's public writing and talks.
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Airbnb Pitch Deck Breakdown: Why a Scrappy 2009 Deck Raised $600K

A slide-by-slide breakdown of Airbnb's original seed pitch deck — what worked, what every modern founder copies from it, and the structural lessons that still hold seventeen years later.