Crossing the Chasm...
summary
A rapid parody of a startup pitch that exposes precise garbage claims and tactics rather than topics and promises claims like customer wins in 50 of the top two Fortune 1000 companies and metrics dressed as proof with unspecified benchmarks that “show web scale” while admitting open source companies do not of course have revenue and thousands of partners equate to mailing-list growth the deck relies on buzzwords and tricks such as swap the axes and paid analyst stardust instead of real deployments or verifiable customer outcomes
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Start
- 0:24Literature review
- 0:35About the CEO
- 0:50The Founders
- 1:05Our Investors
- 1:20Company History
- 1:51Our Value Proposition
- 2:12Our Customers
- 2:38Key Aspects of Our Product
- 2:52The IBM* digital turbo-encabulator
- 3:11Digital turbo-encabulator architecture
- 3:42Benchmarks and Scalability
- 3:52Financials
- 4:13Cutting frills like payroll: the power of open source community!
- 4:23Competing products are inferior
- 4:33The GrubnerC®TM MYSTICAL MATRIX
- 4:45Annual subscription: $10,000,000.37
- 4:56The "golden template" to avoid
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