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Rohan Chaubey

What’s the biggest problem you face after sending a pitch deck to investors?

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I hunted @Interactpitch yesterday and that inspired me to write this thread.

After you send your pitch deck to an investor… what usually goes wrong?

From my experience, it’s rarely the deck itself. It’s what happens after you hit send.

Some patterns I keep seeing:

  • You have no idea if they even opened it

  • They skim it in 2 minutes and jump to conclusions

  • They focus on the wrong slide in the first call

  • You walk into the meeting reacting instead of leading

  • Feedback is vague: “Interesting, let’s stay in touch”

  • Or worse... total silence 👻

The most frustrating part for me has been the lack of context.

You don’t know:

  • What resonated

  • What confused them

  • What they discussed internally

  • What questions came up before the call

So the first meeting ends up being a guessing game instead of a real conversation.

What’s been your biggest frustration with sending pitch decks?

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Atique Bandukwala
This resonates hard. The real problem isn’t the pitch but it’s the black box after “Send.” No signal on what landed, what confused or what actually mattered. So founders walk into calls defending instead of leading. Context > polish. Feedback > silence. Curious to know from others what’s the one signal they wish they always had after sharing a deck?
Rohan Chaubey

@atique_bandukwala1 Absolutely, thanks for echoing my thoughts, Atique! :)

raheel Gul

I haven’t had the chance to actually pitch investors yet, but I’ve been obsessing over this problem from the outside.

My take: we probably can’t remove the “guessing game” completely, but a clear, focused deck can shrink it a lot. If an investor can understand in 1–2 minutes:

  • what we do

  • who it’s for

  • why now

  • and what “great” looks like if it works

then at least their “guesses” in that first look are closer to reality.

So my approach would be to deliberately design the deck for that first 120 seconds: one core narrative, minimal slides, and no cleverness that makes them work to understand the basics. If they still jump to conclusions, at least those conclusions are based on a sharp signal, not noise.

Curious how you’d design a deck differently if you assumed investors only give it 1–2 minutes on first pass.

Rohan Chaubey

@raheel_gul I would add one more item to your bullet list... "What's the differentiator?"