A pitch deck that is music to the ears

A great book about the prodigiousness of Max Martin and other Swedish producers: "The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory". Lots of industry tales about artist who did and didn't take the advice of their producers. Kelly Clarkson, for example, stopped taking Max Martin's advice after her breakout album and slowly declined with fewer recognizable hits.

The theme: Hits can't be planned or predicted. It's a numbers game where you keep trying to make a large number of them and eventually something breaks through.

This merely shows that most VCs are utter dullards who want complex things -- using computers to solve some kind of business problem -- to be turned into something extremely simple and are willing to swallow a pile of bullshit for that to happen.

I'm sure Theranos' pitch deck was super tight and got right to the chorus while also being full of things that were impossible to create.

If pitches have to to be overly short because there are so many of them, do fewer of them.

A refreshing take on a much discussed topic.

Note that pitch is also a musical term, so the title is a little weird.