Pitch decks in 2000: Audience

In reports, ads and assignments it fits fundraising, sales kickoffs, grant talks, competition finals. Skip it when dumping the whole dashboard — a deck is a speech, not a warehouse. This page gathers anatomy, fit, craft, failure modes and work / ads / school recipes for Pitch decks.

When the story is: fundraising, sales kickoffs, grant talks, competition finals. Skip it in cases like: dumping the whole dashboard — a deck is a speech, not a warehouse. Sequoia/a16z memo culture plus Keynote-era startup theatre one idea per slide; a chart only if it is the sentence

Yes if one claim is visible at a glance in Meta, Google and retail print; otherwise link to a full figure. Yes for lab reports and poster boards if axes, units and a source line are present. Excel or Google Sheets or PowerPoint; export SVG/PDF. Do not rely on hue alone. Label directly and check greyscale.