I'm not a fan of unsolicited redesigns. Design is easy when you have none of the constraints of a real project.
And I agree with you that I don't have all the constraints. But it looks that they just used some of the default Powerpoint charts and shapes, so I just thought I could give it a humble try.
You can see the full-size slides here: http://fr.slideshare.net/EmilandDC/kpcb-internet-trends-2014...
In high-school we used to have 'focus correction areas' where our teacher would put up one or two sentences (poorly written or not) and we would spend a couple of minutes fixing them. The lessons I learned in those sessions have stayed with me, even as I've forgotten rest of the material.
One of the reasons I love Stephen Few's books and website[1] is that he takes bad graphs and improves them. You can see the before and after on the same page.
The only critique I have is replacing bar charts with bubble charts. Comparing the radius or area of two circles is far more difficult than comparing heights of bars.
Putting "humble" in bold is an ironic admission of obliviousness.
And I think you are over-interpreting things by seeing irony everywhere.