Is it time for founders to ditch the pitch deck?

Last month (actually it was August—I’ve been busy), my desperate plea to founders to please stop sending AI slop decks went viral. I wrote it because my Monday-morning pitch deck review routine had gone from exciting to neutral to mildly annoying to downright soul-sucking in the course of a year. Decks used to be like a bag of Bertie Botts Every-Flavored Beans—some blah, some gross, some absolutely delightful. Today, it’s all vanilla and completely indistinguishable. I heard from a lot of you in response. Fellow investors adamantly agreed. Most VCs can tell when a deck is AI-generated, and are