♞ Founding Titans Deck Breakdown

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Don’t need the website, founder name, email, but otherwise the design, name, logo and one-liner are all solid here.

The team here isn’t impressive enough to warrant being the top slide, but they aren’t so weak that this is an issue. I like the “Total Team” addition, it speaks the language of investors who are hoping to see a well-rounded team that can fill multiple roles.

This is a great perspective framer. It shows the potential for the company as well as the challenge the company will confront. It’s a great slide that sets the lens through which investors can interpret the rest of the deck.

Big investors are buying this “unlisted” stock

When the founder who sold his last company to Zillow for $120M starts a new venture, people notice. That’s why the same VCs who backed Uber, Venmo, and eBay also invested in Pacaso.

Disrupting the real estate industry once again, Pacaso’s streamlined platform offers co-ownership of premier properties, revamping the $1.3T vacation home market.

And it works. By handing keys to 2,000+ happy homeowners, Pacaso has already made $110M+ in gross profits in their operating history.

Now, after 41% YoY gross profit growth last year alone, they recently reserved the Nasdaq ticker PCSO.

Invest for $2.90/Share

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I don’t love that they skipped a real problem slide, but this is a perfectly fine solution slide that quickly explains the idea and what the company is aiming to do. In this case, given that the product is tangential to the VC industry, there is more that they can get away with since VCs can relate to the product.

This is a good “why now” slide to show why this product needs to exist today. It uses wider trends to demonstrate that this product can only be brought to market during a limited window of opportunity.

Good placements for a product/demo slide where you can see exactly what they are doing.

Simple and straightforward business model here. This deck as a whole is extremely strong.

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