The pitch deck is the presentation in the form of slides that gives detailed information about the company you’re raising money for. This one acquaintance told Carl to scrap the deck and just talk to the potential investors. Pei heeded the advice which he admitted was the right thing to do since he later said that the pitch would have gone worse had he used the deck. “The deck was indeed terrible,” Pei said.
If you recall what was going on in February of 2021, there was speculation that the executive was going to call the name of the firm Essential after buying the Essential name from Andy Rubin, the so-called “father of Android,” who founded Android, Inc. in 2003. Two years later Rubin helped sell the company to Google and also helped pivot Android from being a typical mobile operating system into one designed for touch screened phones after the unveiling of the iPhone in January 2007.
