The only (and ultimate) PowerPoint Deck you will ever need again

Over the past 20 years I created thousands of slides that we presented to VCs to have them invest into our companies or to Fortune 5000 companies to turn into customers. For various reasons I am a fanatic of good and well prepared presentations. My main argument is always: Why should somebody invest millions into your company or its products if you don't even care about the presentation you give to them as a main argument?

There is only one chance for a first impression.

What I was always missing is a great template that could be used as a foundation. Of course we created those within our companies and everybody could use these templates but it was always only built with our background and for the requirements we already knew. So each time something new came up (eg. a new product/feature/solution/case study/etc.) I sat down and worked on the next set of templates. As many of you I used Slideshare to find inspiration and background information but it's not much useful for me to serve as a template.

Until Now. Last week on my flight to Las Vegas for the Shoptalk conference and the Adobe Summit I had the luck to sit next to Axel Schaefer and learned from him about the most amazing PowerPoint template I have ever seen. It's from You Exec, an executive network platform built to share knowledge across business people around the globe.  Update: As it seems You Exec is not the creator of the slidedeck as it was created by DesignSmash*.They assembled a huge deck full of graphics, animations, tables and more for any kind of information you want to share. Here are some details:

• 7 different Color Schemas
• 290 Slides (!)
• Each in 2 rations: 16:9 and 4:3
• Dark and Light Backgrounds

As this might sound too good to be true (I thought the same!) my colleague Kelly Goetsch already checked and it's virus free: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/d6a1cd8bfcd8c45ce9375d5c0c8fa709442fd35ea6e365fba10bd053ec8b8336/analysis/1490366444/

Enough said. Just check it out on your own. Let me know if you like it. No credits to me anyway. I neither found it and I did not create it. I am just as passionate about great presentations as you are and therefore needed to spread the word.

*Disclaimer: I am sharing here publicly available information from the web and am not related to any of these sites, therefore I can't tell you anything about the author. You have to make sure on your own about the usage rights.

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