Welcome to Five Pitch Friday.

A summary of this week’s research at BetterPitch.

(scroll down to see our new product launch)

Here we go:

1. Nvidia

Nvidia is an overnight success story 30 years in the making.

In a talk at Stanford, Jensen shared his biggest piece of advice:

“If you want to be successful, I would encourage you to grow a tolerance for failure.”

2. LinkedIn

LinkedIn made $15.7B in 2023.

Microsoft’s acquisition is one of the most successful of all time.

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3. PowerPoint

Another incredible Microsoft deal.

There are more than 500M global PowerPoint users, with 350 presentations started every second.

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4. Loom

Loom was originally a user testing software with no traction.

The founding trio maxed out their credit cards to build the company. But, they had no success. They pivoted 5 times in 7 months and were two weeks from shutting the company down. Then, they caught a break.

People began using their product to record feedback videos showing their screen and face.

This was not the intended use. But, people loved it.

After raising $203M and serving 25M users, they sold to Atlassian for $975M.

Boy are they happy they didn’t quit.

5. WeWork

WeWork raised $22B and was valued as high as $47B.

Then, they imploded.

Adam Neumann collected $700M before the company’s bankruptcy.

Now they’re being restructured at an $8M market cap.

Guess who’s trying to buy WeWork?

Adam Neumann.

The biggest loser on this one is SoftBank, who incinerated $23B on the deal.

Oops.

See you next Friday,

-PitchDeckGuy

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