What’s your opinion on spending $$ for a pre-seed / seed deck?

I am of the mindset it’s a waste of time and money so long as you’re spending time and money on product

Uber raised off straight bullets https://medium.com/@gc/the-beginning-of-uber-7fb17e544851

It takes about 30m to make a slide deck not look horrible but if I see someone put significant money/design time (effectively equivalent) into making a deck I’m going to feel more sus bc time & money are the most valuable things to a startup & they just demonstrated wasting both

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

/quilibrium

I’ll also invert this — if an investor is being swayed by the aesthetics of the deck, and not by the raw ideas, product and talent assembled in the pitch, I wouldn’t want them as an investor.