Don’t Use A Designer To Do Your Pitch Deck. Do It Yourself Instead.

There’s a company called Slidebean that sells pitch deck formats. As part of their sales material, Slidebean has redone the original pitch decks of companies like Uber and Airbnb in their “improved” format.

The only problem I have is that I actually liked the original format that the companies had better.

For example, let’s take a look at two versions of the Airbnb pitch deck:

or:

I’ll take the white background with the simple black text every day of the week. BTW, that white background with just the text is Airbnb’s original deck, not the “improved” Slidebean version.

You need to keep your pitch decks simple.

You don’t earn style points with investors for having a designer come up with an interesting format for your deck. If anything, the interesting format hurts you.