| The numbers don’t lie. According to DocSend, the average pitch deck is reviewed for just three minutes. And if you think a senior VC is reviewing the presentation your team crafted for months as if it were a Fabergé egg — well, you might be disappointed. Even if you are lucky enough to land a meeting, it’s more likely that a junior person went through your pitch and ran it up the chain. "The biggest lie in venture capital is: 'Yes, I read through your deck,'" says Evan Fisher, founder of Unicorn Capital and Minimal Capital. "Because those words are immediately followed by, ' … but why don't you run us through it from the beginning?'" According to Fisher, the pro forma pitch deck is a thing of the past. Instead, the founders he’s worked with who made video pitches netted two to five times as many investor meetings as people who sent traditional pitch decks. They also received up to five times more in terms of investor commitments from the first 20 meetings. “Even if the only benefit was that other investment committee members heard the story direct from the founder, that alone would make your video pitch worth it,” says Fisher. Thanks very much for reading Extra Crunch this week! Walter Thompson
Senior Editor, TechCrunch
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