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Poor cover slide, doesn’t explain anything so it’s just a waste of valuable real estate in the deck.

This is a good perspective framer to demonstrate the high potential of the company and how its industry could become a dominant player in the tech space moving forward. Even today, years later, when we see Meta glasses becoming better and better, we understand the potential that this company had.

This is a unique problem that I personally don’t relate to. I think they could have taken this deck in lots of different ways; to me, this problem isn’t something worth solving. I would have been more interested in seeing this pitched as either bringing the gameification and benefits of social media to real life, or as a vitamin to explain how it would augment social reality in a future with AR. Instead, they chose a problem that likely won’t connect with some investors.

This is not a solution slide; it’s straight into the product, and I believe this is a function of the fact that they weren’t solving a real problem.

This is impressive traction; it’s also a little scary. Not sure how I feel about this slide, but I think anyone who would invest would have liked this slide here, where they can immediately see the traction after the problem/solution.

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