@vinnielauria: 10 slides. No product. $580M raised. Now worth $380B. Anthropic's early deck broke almost every fundraising rule founders are taught. Walking through it from an investor's seat, the lesson isn't the design. It's what they chose to leave out. → The cover was just the company name and a title. No tagline, no valuation. When you're first in a category, decoration is a distraction. → The mission slide was three words: reliable, steerable, interpretable. Not marketing copy. It became their research agenda and their enterprise pitch two years later. → The product slide had no product. 200+ organic inbounds, 2,500 on the waitlist, zero revenue. Just proof of pull for something that barely existed. → The ask was talent. They raised a round and recruited for it in the same 10 slides. The through-line: you don't need to show what you've built. You need to show what you saw before anyone else did. What did you see before the market caught on? 👇 #startupfundraising #pitchdeck #venturecapital #startupfounders #foundertips

Crepekings :

What’s funny is if Anthropic failed you could be making a completely reasonable post mortem from the other pov

Sam Nass :

you're just giving outcome bias

rollin444 :

Bro, fun vid but that deck is not that good. Ex-Open AI employees years ago could raise with a freakin napkin

Gustaf :

Stop praising the deck, it’s ok but not the best one

Tyler Sorenson :

Slide 4 and 5 are pretty weak imo

Juan Tejeda :

They didn’t get funded because of the deck, but the demo.

G2GUNIT :

If this wasn’t Anthropic you would not be saying this right now about the deck. 🤣

SuperbikeGuy :

So why are they claiming they need safety regulation to be safer?

ThePorchmen :

What they never tell you is when you’re that connected the deck means nothing

Drip Yip :

Not hard to sell water in a desert

Rsr :

Ai created the entire presentation including the slides, I will like to see the prompt

extremesnorlax :

pitch decks are such bs

theprofessorzero :

this deck was definitely made by claude

Tea & Tyranny :

Trust me, nobody gave them millions because of this deck.

Adam :

They are going bankrupt next year

OBI :

please you guys should rest its only remarkable when there's a secured deal I just seen one that had the "best" pitch and believe me it's way better than this and now this is the "best". there's no internationally standard pitch deck, just pray the investors find your business profitable for their liking

HUTCH DOWN RECORDS :

That's not why

Akiv Abdiel :

SOMEBODY :

they're already viral, dont need to explain more to investors. for starups, dont follow them

sarafcknrinehart :

Love this breakdown

GDPRTCL :

It’s ironic that Anthropics bottleneck was, and still is, People

yz1896 :

No product is disingenuous. They didn’t have a GTM product at the time but they didn’t come empty handed.

Alexx :

Question: As a solo founder, how do you deal with the team slide?😎

BigKnow :

Josh :

This is terrible. And you’re biased. Their deck sucks, but it doesn’t matter when their friends invested in them. $500M from SBF!