How to Build a Top 1% Pitch Deck
Join us for education and laughs with Industry Expert & VC Comedian Shaun Gold!
Sometimes being a founder sucks. You're financially stressed, your co-founder just backstabbed you, and you're dealing with uncertainty.
However, on other days it's amazing. Today is one of those days! When work = play!
Learn how to pitch with high energy speaker Shaun Gold from Open VC, a community of 14,000+ investors, matching investors and VCs.
Shaun Gold is a true polymath, renowned for his broad expertise and diverse experiences across multiple industries. He is a lifelong entrepreneur, 2x Amazon Best-Selling Author, international speaker, ghostwriter, investor, and super connector. He serves as the head of content at OpenVC (where his articles on startup topics are read by over 40,000 visitors a month) and as a General Partner at Improve Ventures, a VC fund focused on emerging markets. He is also involved in a joint venture between Point Capital and Improve Ventures focused on the startup secondary market, handling SPVs of $10 million or more.
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