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The Pitch

#114 Brevity: Your AI Pitch Coach

The Pitch

Josh Muccio

Technology, Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Co-founders Kelvin Johnson and Max Huc know first impressions are everything. That’s why they created Brevity, an AI powered software to help craft a persuasive first pitch. But pitching a pitch product to a room full of pitch experts proves to be a bit of a challenge. Which brings up a question: what's more important, the pitch itself or the Q&A? Today’s investors are Jillian Manus, Charles Hudson, Elizabeth Yin, Mac Conwell, and Neal Sáles-Griffin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The pitch, day three, pitch three.

0:05.3

You know at the start of our show, when founders walk in the room and present their pitch?

0:10.2

Well behind the scenes, I work with each of them to craft the perfect pitch.

0:15.8

Today's founders have built AI software to replace me, the pitch coach.

0:22.3

But when one pitches a pitch product to a room full of pitch experts, which yes is as

0:27.8

hard as it sounds, a question arises.

0:31.3

What's more important to investors, the pitch itself, or everything else?

0:37.0

The back-and-forth, the Q&A, the human connection part?

0:41.3

Because sure, AI can craft the perfect pitch, but can it actually close a deal?

0:48.2

I'm Josh Muccio, welcome to the pitch, where real AI pitches real investors for real money.

0:56.4

I'm Neil Salis Griffin, managing director here at TechSar Chicago, and I'm happy to welcome

1:00.4

me all to my city.

1:01.4

I'm Elizabeth Yen, and I'm a general partner at Hustlefund.

1:04.3

I'm Charles Hutton, managing partner, precursor ventures.

1:07.2

I'm Jillian Manes, managing partner of structure cap help.

1:10.5

I'm a key rapper called the second, most people call me Mac, and if you follow me on Twitter,

1:13.9

it's Mac the VC.

1:19.6

The pitch for brevity is coming up right after this.

1:24.3

This episode is brought to you by Kraken Pro, with all new trading features and a fully

1:28.6

customisable interface.

1:29.9

It's Kraken's most powerful crypto trading platform.

1:32.6

Well, ever.

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