Given Doerr’s investment in Amazon, and Bezos’s investment in Google, it was only a matter of time before Brin and Page landed a meeting with Kleiner’s celebrity rainmaker. They took this coup almost for granted. Other entrepreneurs, visualizing their Ferraris, might have stayed up all night preparing their pitch decks. But the Googlers did not strain themselves too hard: they showed up to see Doerr with a PowerPoint presentation consisting of just seventeen slides, three of which displayed cartoons and only two of which had actual numbers.[25] Yet what they lacked in presentational formality
...more
