It's a pleasure to be here.

Let's look at the most successful technology executive in the business, and see how a presentation goes.

I want to know your product, that's very important.

Always write a technical concept for your event.

And this brings me to my modest proposal.

My name is David Rose. I am a serial entrepreneur turned serial investor.

I hope I

Because I've cobbled this together to try to meet the challenge of this session.

OK, now I'm going to change gears here.

Always use remote control.

I thought I was going to go crazy at the end of this year.

Thin, beautiful, design counts.

Hello, everyone.

You can't say, I've got integrity, invest in me!

It doesn't work.

Got a presentation to make.

Yeah, it's me, pretty fired up.

It wasn't cool to be fired up about presentations.

And for the past three years

That seemed like a sort of a cheap shot.

David Rose People! You!

But if you can do it, it works really well.

And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.

Which presentation have you applauded the most this morning?

(Laughter)

Oh my gosh, if this shape is real,

Please limit your presentation to 30 minutes.

Showing the logo of Windows.

We're going to go back in time.

You walk in, the first thing you've got to do, the overall arc of your presentation, it's got to start like a rocket.

I was fired up about presentations back when it wasn't cool to be fired up about presentations.

DN Don't you guys already have already one of those things?

But I have to get serious. And how do you get serious?

Here's Gates doing a thing for Windows.

You know what happens at puberty?

And this is the shape of his iPhone launch 2007, when he launched his iPhone.

And they came up with all kinds of ideas.

I've personally supervised the investment of tens of millions of dollars into companies who have pitched me with PowerPoint presentations.

There's another great one over here. OK, Steve Jobs.

Curtis Wong Thank you, Roy.

But let's say I would pay them 10 interest.

Why is it that we physically sit with wrapped attention during a story, but it just dies for a presentation?

So we've had thousands of presentations back at the shop hundreds of thousands of presentations actually, so I knew the contexts of the really bad presentations.

Why is it that we physically sit with wrapped attention during a story, but it just dies for a presentation.

So we've had thousands of presentations back at the shop hundreds of thousands of presentations actually, so I knew the contexts of a really bad presentation.