I believe you can build billion dollar companies with tiny teams, if not 1 person. If you think so too and are just getting started, DM me and I might invest up to $500k.
I’m proud to share that
@Pitch
is open to everyone.
We started Pitch to redefine the way teams work with presentations. Today’s launch marks the biggest milestone in that journey, with many more yet to come. 🚀
Read more 👉
Today was my last day at
@Pitch
as CEO. I’ve given my absolute best to the company, and after 6 years, many highs, and some painful lows, I need a break. I’m incredibly proud that my co-founder and CTO of Pitch,
@adamrenklint
, will step in and take over the CEO role from now on.
Time for an update from
@Pitch
. 👋
We’re super excited to give you a peek at what we’re building. Pitch helps teams create, collaborate on, and distribute presentations faster and more effectively than ever before:
How? Read on ... 👇
Today is a good day for reflection. With
@Wunderlist
closing down and
@Pitch
ramping up toward launch, I'm excited to announce a new company:
@SuperlistHQ
— a fresh new take on supercharged team productivity.
Selenski’s courage and leadership is remarkable. While European politicians are watching, Ukraine is fighting like a beast for a free world and European values. The Ukrainian people are heroes.
#StandWithUkraine
#Zelenskiy
I can’t wait to show you Superlist. ⚡️
The team is on a mission to perfectly melt notes and to-do lists, and the progress in the last few weeks has been absolutely amazing! Exciting updates coming soon:
@SuperlistHQ
this is horrible advise. i’ve been there and can’t recommend. took me over a year to get out of it.
instead I’d suggest this:
1) make YOU and your physical and mental health the
#1
priority in life. Then your family, then your company.
2) work with a therapist to identify
Last couple weeks in Germany:
💰 Flaschenpost exit for ~€1bn
💰 Signavio exit for ~$1bn
🚀 Auto1 IPO at ~€7.6bn
💰 Adjust exit at ~$1bn
Incredible to see how our startup ecosystem thriving!
📣 Final update from
@Pitch
before we launch publicly this year (🤞).
We’re releasing our biggest product update ever today, a completely redesigned editor. And tomorrow we’ll start inviting *everyone* on our waitlist.
Read more 👉 1/2
We founded
@Pitch
so presentations wouldn’t suck. Now they shine. Say hello to Pitch 2.0 🥂
🙌 AI deck generator
😍 Slick new UI
🚀 Animations to give your ideas flow
🎯 Better analytics
Heard that Microsoft is shutting down its Berlin office completely, and everyone who doesn’t relocate to Seattle has to leave. I’m really sorry to hear that.
If you are looking for exciting opportunities in Berlin (or remote), please DM me (not just for Pitch).
In 2016 we purchased a new solar system for our house in Berlin (incl. 2
@Tesla
batteries). This is how much energy we produced and consumed in 2017 (with two fully electric vehicles, also
@Tesla
). I still get excited seeing those numbers. 🤓
Today is a special day for me – we’re releasing
@Superlist
1.0 – the new home for all your lists. Get it now for Mac, iOS, Android & Web:
When we sold Wunderlist in 2015 to Microsoft, I felt broken. We put so much hard work and passion into building the
Big news from
@Pitch
. Today, we’re officially announcing our invite-only beta, plus an additional $30m in financing from Thrive Capital and the founders of Instagram and Superhuman. It’s a huge milestone for us, let me explain why. 👇 1/7
It’s a big day at
@Pitch
: We’ve raised an $85m Series B, led by Lakestar and
@Tiger_Global
, and are unveiling our expanded product vision and roadmap. 🚀
Here’s what it all means👇
1/8
A new chapter of Pitch begins today: We've raised $85m to build the first complete platform for presentations. 🚀
Our founder
@christianreber
on our new funding, our expanded product vision, and a few initiatives you can expect to see very soon ➡️
Big day for our family! After living in Berlin for 16 years, we've started a new adventure and relocated to Mallorca. It's the kids' first day of school today, I’m such a proud dad right now. 🤩
Swift ban should just be the first step. Freeze every Russian asset that we can find. Cash, yachts, houses, apartments, holdings - absolutely everything. Add a global travel ban for every Russian on top to make sure Putin becomes the most hated person inside Russia.
We’re closing our
@Pitch
office today and will transition into an all-remote team. This is precaution, not panic. We’re are remote-friendly from the start so this is a great learning opportunity for us to improve how we work together. I hope this helps to slow down the spread.
Ideas I'd love to discuss to reset our economy in Germany and achieve prosperity for everyone:
1️⃣ 0% income tax for everyone for a minimum of 10 years
2️⃣ Lifelong 0% income tax for mothers of 4 or more children
3️⃣ Aggressive push for affordable housing nationwide
4️⃣ Removal
Vor zwei Jahren hat Microsoft die App
@Wunderlist
in Rente geschickt, um die eigene To-Do-App großzumachen. Das ist bisher nicht gelungen, wie unsere Analyse zeigt.
It’s really impressive how Microsoft has cloned Notion, yet still managed to make the interface look significantly worse. Now pre-install it on Windows and call it a “huge success”. Anticompetitive behavior at its finest.
Today we’re launching Pitch Stories!
Just kidding 😅 But, we will bring audio/video recordings to Pitch in 2021! We’re hiring engineers + product designers, join
@tomazstolfa
&
@jvuillermet
and help us to ship some exciting new features next year.
Tech stocks had a very tough quarter, and investors and founders are feeling ripple effects. Companies like $ZM, $TEAM, $HUBS or $PATH are down >50% vs. 6mo ago.
Every startup is thinking about it, so here’s my view on what’s going on, and how we’re navigating this at
@Pitch
. 🧵
We're hiring 10+ engineers until the end of 2020 (Berlin or remote).
- ClojureScript (JS) engineers
- Clojure/AWS backend engineers
- React Native engineers
- Web Developer
Please consider applying via .
Glassdoor 👉 (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
📣 We’re hiring
@Pitch
! 2020 will be our year. 🚀 If you love a great challenge and truly unique opportunities, please DM me. Designers, engineers, marketers, PMs, and researchers with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are welcome.
My Apple predictions for 2024:
- Apple will enter the AI game (new Siri) and many AI companies (esp. with hardware) will have to change course or give up
- Apple will ship an Oura competitor (Apple Ring) that's extremely well-crafted and doesn't require a monthly subscription
Microsoft is killing off Wunderlist in May 2020. Tasks will stop syncing after May 6th, and Microsoft wants people to switch to its To Do app. Details:
Superlist 2.0 will be an epic release! Completely revamped mobile app, nested lists, simplified interface, and everything will be blazingly fast. ⚡️ Hope you'll love it! Team is working hard on getting it done.
Here are a few of my favorite
@Pitch
features:
1/ 📹 Live video collaboration. We just launched it this week and it still blows my mind every time I use it. 🤯
It’s amazing how much faster it is to get work done when you can talk it out, point at things, and edit them together.
Writing this really hurts, but we made the decision to lay off 30% of the Pitch team. We’re changing our strategy to safely navigate through this economic downturn, which unfortunately means we’re parting ways with 59 incredibly gifted individuals.
I’d never take any money from a VC/angel who requests weekly or bi-weekly calls
@HarryStebbings
. If you don’t trust your founders, don’t invest in them. Great founders tell you when they need you.
We’re launching
@Pitch
for iPhone! 🎉
Next big step in our journey to build the first complete platform for presentations. Android and iPad apps coming next. 🏎💨
Download here ➡️
First day being all-remote
@Pitch
.
👌 Turned 3-hour workshop into a Zoom meeting
🎙Started using Discord to hang out & fight loneliness
🖥 Team rallied together to deliver monitors to each other
💁♂️ Experienced remote workers shared tips & tricks
Working great so far.
When I was part of Microsoft I pitched a project called ’Microsoft Listen’, a free app to record conversations and create real-time transcripts. I really want this product to exist, anyone interested in building it?
Yesterday we had to say goodbye to many super talented team members. If you're hiring, here's the full list of people we had to let go. DM me for references.
1/ Quick update on
@Pitch
: Since Jan ’18 we've hired a strong team of 34 people and built the first stable internal beta of the product (for Mac, Windows & Web). The app feels very solid already, collaborating on presentations in real-time is a lot of fun!
Ich würde mir wünschen das sich die SPD, Grünen und die FDP als Team für ein eine neue, effiziente Regierung sehen. SPD fokussiert sich auf soziale Themen, FDP auf die Wirtschaft, und die Grünen auf Umwelt. Nichts geht ohne den anderen, aber alle vertrauen und unterstützen sich.
A warm welcome to
@renn
, who's joined
@Pitch
as our VP Product & Design.
Renn brings 20+ yrs leading product design teams at places like
@lyft
+
@Grammarly
. I'm thrilled to work with someone of his caliber to take the Pitch product experience to the next level. 🚀
Really proud to show the first demo of Superlist at
#GoogleIO2022
. The team has been really hard at work to get it right, can’t wait to roll out the beta this year. Sorry it’s taking a while, software is hard. 😅
@SuperlistHQ
Here’s the full video 👉
So proud of our team! This week we’ve shipped the first piece of our platform - Embeds. Share & embed presentations on the web, directly from within
@Pitch
.
We’re also getting closer to launching publicly each week, just invited 2.000 new teams! 🎉
This week we're shipping 3 new features, 3 improvements, and 7 bug fixes.
😎 Embed public presentations: Share your deck in blog blog, website, or in tools like
@notionHQ
and
@coda_hq
!
Introducing Presentation Views, our first step toward robust presentation analytics right within Pitch. Slide-level engagement, password protection & much more are on the way. 🥳
Warum ist es so unfassbar schwierig für
@OlafScholz
Mitarbeiterbeteiligungen wettbewerbsfähig umzusetzen? Wieso positioniert sich ein Sozialdemokrat gegen die Rechte von ArbeitnehmerInnen? Seit >10 Jahren die gleichen Verbesserungsvorschläge, kein Fortschritt. I don't get it.
🇩🇪
#NotOptional
letter to German legislators
"Changes urgently needed for the new German Fund Location Act to effectively support nation’s startups."
"The legislation as it stands will make little if any difference and will be a lost opportunity for a meaningful change."
Lilium's IPO today is remarkable on so many levels. A german company, building all-electric vertical take-off and landing jets (aka flying cars), just went public. Congrats to the entire team, this is so inspiring! 👏
Made. in. Germany. 🇩🇪
#HODL
Today, we’re one step closer to radically transforming how the world moves. With a planned commercial launch in 2024, our team and partners are determined to decarbonize air travel with the first electric VTOL jet $LILM
#LiliumTakesFlight
On today's Rising Stars of SaaS,
@Pitch
CEO
@christianreber
joins
@Jason
to talk:
☯️ Achieving world class design
💻 Taking on PowerPoint, Keynote & Google Slides
📈 GTM for bottom-up SaaS
& more!
🔊:
📺:
The entire world would probably be significantly more stable if we wouldn’t have TikTok AND Instagram.
Doomscrolling is a hell of drug. The tech industry has created fake realities, and the entire world is addicted.
100%––China has BRILLIANTLY + sadistically smuggled 2 drugs into America hooking the young + vulnerable
-Fentanyl
-TikTok
Both are destroying THEIR futures + OUR shared values
Gaming was my business school. It’s the fastest way to learn to direct teams (and big egos) under crazy pressure. And most importantly, it teaches you that losing a round doesn’t mean you’re losing the game.