Pitch Practice with Paul Buchheit and Sam Altman at Startup School SV 2016

During Startup School two companies went on stage to pitch Paul Buchheit. Sam Altman followed each founder and repitched their startup to Paul.
The two startups were:
Shipamax [www.shipamax.com/] - Jenna Brown
Shipamax helps companies hire ships.
MyPurpleFolder [www.mypurplefolder.com/] - Kelli Thomas-Drake
MyPurpleFolder helps patients and caregivers keep track of their medical records.

[@garthgoldwater5256]

I would watch fifty hours of this no problem

[@rotimibest8530]

Same here. Even 100 hours

[@loveBROGaming]

Same here even 10,000 to get them hours in 😂

[@BladeofLight1996]

I love the first pitch, the founder has deep domain experience, understands the market well. She does need a bit more confidence, but I understand that it must be daunting to pitch in front of 100's of people.

[@davordebrecin2054]

Sam is simply amazing.

[@rsdntevl]

the second lady speaks in riddles

[@ashu1461]

The Bear Is Sticky With Honey

[@santiseedcompany5738]

@@ashu1461 😂😂

[@nbme-answers]

i call this style “what's important is my startup story not your problem”

[@AmsterdamEats]

Sam's closing questions were really strong.

[@theprimalpitch190]

Ouch. Gotta know "Who's your customer" Immediately. Also, answering an analytical question with a story is frustrating for the other person.

[@alvropena]

Sam's pitching skills are crazy

[@mmaaaxxxxx]

Looks like Shipamax was funded by YC in 2017, but not much more news after.

[@VoltHaul]

7mil$ Series A in 2020

[@thehari75]

Just came here for sam

[@CandidlyRed]

Winter 2024 coming later this year hehe

[@user-ii3cp7ot3s]

pitching seems hard...

[@yeeitmete]

7:00

[@JulioReguero]

The second pitch from the founder was awful

[@Ausiedundan]

The 2nd founder is a joke

[@Bubbalubagus]

This is quite flawed though; we are led to think the pitch is much better than it is because we already know a lot about the company from the first speaker where we are forgiving and willing to listen to slow details. If you just skip ahead and listen to Sam Altmans, he just sounds uppity and like a hype-man and it’s hard to trust his “$100 billion market” statements.

[@VoltHaul]

18:56 this is it. This is what is super hard to grasp. How to make the conversion from meeting to "how do we actually get an investment out of this"

[@theprimalpitch190]

interesting but not pitch practice