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Pitch Deck: Print and Play
Pitch Deck: Print and Play
CONTENTS
90.....Company cards
350....Pitch cards
64.....Funding tiles
Pitch Deck is made by Fred Benenson & Alex Hague. Graphic design and logo
art by Jakob Scott. Illustrations by Simon Abranowicz. Copyright Unlimited
Liability Corporation LLC and Palm Court.
Pitch Deck is a game about convincing your friends to invest in the most ridiculous startups imaginable. You all play clueless
entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in a world where centaurs wear Crocs, Girl Scouts sell Adderall door-to-door, and
people list their doomsday bunkers on Airbnb.
Each round, everyone combines a Pitch card from their hand with a Company card on the table to create a new business,
like Uber for Piggyback rides or Tinder: The Musical. Then everyone makes a quick elevator pitch describing their businesses
and why you should invest in it.
A different person plays the Lead Investor each round, who decides which idea everybody will secretly fund, based on how
compelling the pitch was. Once everyone has been Lead Investor once, the funding amounts are revealed and totaled. There
are two winners: the person who pitched the most valuable company and the person who invested the most in that company.
GETTING STARTED
Everyone draws a hand of 8 Pitch cards and takes a stack of 8 Funding tiles from one of the game’s Venture Capital funds.
The VCs all have the same investment amounts ($1-8 billion), so people are free to pick one based on which they like—or
dislike?—the most. Everyone shuffles their Funding tiles and places them in a stack face down in front of themselves, so you
can’t see the dollar amounts. Pick someone to be the first Lead Investor. We suggest the person least familiar with the game.
Making pitches: The Lead Investor draws 3 Company cards and reads each name out loud. Then they pick the company
they want to hear pitches for, e.g. LinkedIn. Discard the other two cards. Everyone else chooses a Pitch card from their hand
to pair with that company, e.g. LinkedIn for “Babies” or LinkedIn for “The profoundly lazy.”
Starting with the person to the Lead Investor’s left, going clockwise, everyone gives a quick elevator pitch for their brilliantly
awful business idea. It can be as short as a single word, or as long as a minute or two. The Lead Investor does not make a
pitch. After everyone has made their pitch, the Lead Investor decides whose business everyone will fund, placing the
Company and Pitch card pairing in the middle of the table. Their choice can be based on anything, but it’s usually given to
whoever gave the best or funniest or weirdest pitch.
Investing: Everyone draws the top two Funding tiles from their stack and secretly chooses one of the amounts to invest in the
winning business. Then they place the chosen tiles face down on top of the card pairing, so that the amount is secret.
Everyone reshuffles the unchosen tile into their stack. The person whose pitch won does not invest this round. Everyone
except the Lead Investor draws a replacement Pitch card, so you always have 8 cards in your hand to begin a turn. The
player to the left of the current Lead Investor becomes the new Lead Investor.
Scoring: After everyone has been Lead Investor once, reveal and add up the investment amounts, going one company at a
time (for drama). Each round, there are two winners: the person who pitched the company with the highest total funding is
the winning founder, and the person who invested the most in that company is the winning investor. Either play again or
actually go start that company.
FINICKY RULES
Pivoting: Every card in Pitch Deck is hilarious and good. But if someone incorrectly doesn’t like the cards they have in their
hand, once per game they can discard their hand and draw 8 new cards.
Co-Founders: In the unlikely event you have enough friends to play with 9+ people, we recommend playing in 2-person(ish)
teams. Everyone has their own hand, but you pitch together and collectively decide which cards/funding amounts to use.
Pitch Off: It is statistically possible that a game will end in a tie for one or both winners. When this happens, just like in real
business, it immediately triggers a Pitch Off. Draw a Company card from the top of the deck and give each tied player a
single Pitch card to play—but they can’t look at it until immediately before they start their pitch. After they finish, everyone
can either argue or vote on who won. Also: the drama is heightened if everyone chants “Pitch. Off. Pitch. Off. Pitch. Off.” to
begin.
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COMPANY NOTES COMPANY NOTES COMPANY NOTES
A mobile payment service, A conspiracy theory website A site where you open an
where you pay your friends whose shirtless founder, incognito window and stream
and put cute little emojis Alex Jones, claims that totally normal videos. Wait
in there to suggest that Sandy Hook, 9/11, and the I thought my speakers were
you're paying for sex. moon landings were staged. muted OH GOD NO WHY WONT IT
PAUSE
A free online encyclopedia An app where you order a A brand of cologne targeted
that allows virtually cab on your phone. Which towards boys who don't know
anyone the ability to edit sounds like it wouldn't any better. Scents include
or create an article. require being sketchy as Musk, Spice, and least
Miraculous, that all hell, but here we are problematically, Oriental.
somehow works. apparently.
A dating site for people to A search engine that asks A nonprofit that gives
have affairs. A 2015 hack you to imagine that its children with terminal
revealed that the site had results are being hand- conditions a last wish.
70,000 "female" bots selected for you by a fancy Unless it involves
sending fake messages to British valet any not a firearms, which honestly
men. cold, unfeeling algorithm. could have been so badass.
An activity tracker that An app that identifies what A photo and video app most
you wear on your wrist that song is playing rather than famous for the fact that
monitors your step count, you having to suffer the the content disappears
heart rate, and indignity of asking after a set amount of time.
masturbation vigor. someone. Named after the Insert lame sexting joke
popular 1990s Sinbad film. here.
Vibram FiveFingers
Airbnb Chatroulette
COMPANY NOTES COMPANY NOTES COMPANY NOTES
A site where people A company that sells A website where you were
temporarily rent their rubbers shoes with separate connected with a random
places to people who toe sections meant to person anywhere in the
definitely aren't going to replicate being barefoot, world to video chat. Also
use their apartment as a and also, presumably, penises. Why were there so
pop-up brothel. celibacy. many penises.
A website where you hire A shoe company known for It's your adorable little
freelancers to do things its tasteless, injection vacuum cleaner robot buddy!
like clean your apartment, molded footware. Most It is definitely not spying
hang a painting, be a human frequently observed in on you for the NSA. Right,
table, or dispose of a orange and on Mario little guy? You’d never do
body. Batali's feet. me dirty like that.
Rent the Runway WebMD Chuck E. Cheese
COMPANY NOTES COMPANY NOTES COMPANY NOTES
A hippie-type ice cream A site where you can order A website famous for
company that features food from local restaurants listicles, quizzes, viral
flavors such as Cherry when you're too lazy, content, and out of
Garcia, Half Baked, tired, high, or incompetent nowhere, deeply sourced
Cinnamon Buns, Chunky to make it for yourself. reporting on major
Monkey, and Psilocybin. political events.
The most popular sleeved The "largest & fastest An electronic device that
blanket in the world. growing community of is ostensibly meant to
Accept no imitation. It is Christian singles.” A 2014 massage sore muscles, but
also known as the Snuggler, survey reported that 61% of is actually used as a
Doojo, Toasty Wrap, and users were willing to have vibrator 100% of the time.
Slanket. casual sex.
A form of birth control An underwear company that A dating app for gay and
that can be used after sex. specializes in slimming bisexual men. Thought
Common side effects include garments that "help women Catalog claims that "there
nausea, breast tenderness, feel great about themselves are only two emotions on
and awkward brunches. and their potential." Grindr: boredom and
horniness."
The Girl Scouts of The Trump
Medieval Times America Organization LLC
COMPANY NOTES COMPANY NOTES COMPANY NOTES
A dinner theater set in the An organization for "girls A holding company for
medieval era. There were no of courage, confidence, and Donald Trump's fraudulent
utensils in medieval times, character, who make the hotel, television, water,
hence there are no utensils world a better place." steak, beauty pageant, and
at Medieval Times. Also: cookies. fake university businesses.
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promises "the best poop of Costa Rica, founded by a sells inexpensive, ready-
your life" when you use its billionaire philanthropist. to-assemble furniture that
patented toilet stool to It's totally safe. They're you construct with an
"unkink the colon." just testing the fences. adorable tiny metal key.
The 2nd largest sandwich A video streaming site that A chain of brick-and-mortar
chain in America, with over no longer has the original stores that rented VHS
3,300 "restaurants." Carl Sagan Cosmos, so tapes and DVDs, while also
Products include All Beef, despite everything else, it providing jobs to 80% of
Beef, Side Beef, and Double is dead to us. America's unemployable
Beef. teens.
Second Life GoPro CrossFit
COMPANY NOTES COMPANY NOTES COMPANY NOTES
A deserted online virtual A video camera that can be A fitness company with over
world that once boasted be strapped to an eagle, 13,000 "boxes." Sample
nearly 1 million active clipped to the end of a workouts include rolling
users. Now run by the Boy trombone, and survive boulders up hills and
Mayor and his mysterious falling from a plane into a having your liver pecked
companion, Totino's. pig pen. out by crows.
Cards Against
Humanity Burning Man GeoCities
COMPANY NOTES COMPANY NOTES COMPANY NOTES
A party game where people An annual desert gathering The OG web hosting service
answer black question cards of artistic self- from the 90s that hosted
with white answer cards expression. Come for the your angsty teen poetry and
until Jared says something art cars, drugs, and music; collection of charming
racist again. Stop it, stay for the merkins, kids, little construction man
Jared. and dust. gifs.
A site that became famous A company that makes An iconic early 2000s
for its aggregation of rap virtual reality headsets. website where you rated the
videos, user-uploaded But definitely not for hotness of users on a scale
street fights, and porn. I'm definitely not from 1 to 10. It helped
"terrifying extremes of lawnmower manning porn inspire the creation of
human behavior" right now. Facebook.
Ed Hardy Silk Road Fleshlight
COMPANY NOTES COMPANY NOTES COMPANY NOTES
A clothing brand once The internet's black A sex toy shaped like a
described as "so hated that market, where you can buy flashlight and designed to
it cannot be worn anything from a jar of sand mimic a presumably human
ironically" along with Nazi to a $150K hitman to your woman's vagina. They come
uniforms, KKK robes, and own credit card number, in all shapes, sizes, and
self-tanner. probably. colors.
A video sharing site where A photo sharing app that A catalog featuring
you can go straight from immediately makes you feel "unconventional" items from
streaming a lecture on bad about not being as Justin Bieber floss to a
string theory to watching a interesting, attractive, or "face trainer" that claims
chimp pee in its own mouth. worldly as your friends. to reduce sagging by 71%.
An apparel company that An online store where you A blogging platform where
produces yoga-inspired can buy lovingly you can turn your two-
clothing for moms, handcrafted items, from $20 beers-deep rant about PC
prospective moms, dog moms, felt coasters to culture on college campuses
and Google employees. artisanally knitted into a thinkpiece no one
vibrator coozies. will read.
The Catholic Martha Stewart
Church La Croix Living Omnimedia
COMPANY NOTES COMPANY NOTES COMPANY NOTES
One of the world's oldest A flavored seltzer company The conglomerate founded by
religious groups. They have that is inexplicably Martha Stewart that
over 1 billion members popular. Wired describes includes all her media
worldwide. And run a its appeal being its properties. It's still
country too? That's really “bubbly, trustworthy really weird that she went
weird. blandness." to prison.
A travel site where people A retail store that offered A site where you pay a
review marginally fun random electronics, air freelancer $5 dollars (or
things to do on vacation. purifiers, "high-tech more) to do a little job
They've had several lifestyle products," and for you, like designing an
controversies around something called the awful logo or being your
"revenge" reviews. Robosapien. fake Canadian boyfriend for
a summer.
An accelerator program for A dating site for "down-to- An electric car company
startups that offers earth country types." Don't founded by Elon Musk. They
mentorship and $120,000 in get any ideas, city folk. are building something
exchange for 7% equity and This is their place to let called the Gigafactory in
a five-year vow of loose. It’s farmers only in the desert that will almost
celibacy. here. certainly launch Skynet.
Viagra LinkedIn Yelp
COMPANY NOTES COMPANY NOTES COMPANY NOTES
A dating app where you A site where you can find A conference series that
swipe left & right on an apartment, buy a used includes inspirational
people doing shirtless yoga saxophone, and wail into talks like "How to Tie Your
poses next to sedated the void about the person Shoes" and a performance of
tigers in front of Machu you should've asked out on something called
Picchu. the train. "beatjazz."
Edible
ISIS Meetup Arrangements
COMPANY NOTES COMPANY NOTES COMPANY NOTES
A jihadi group whose goal A social network that lets The creator of and The
is to institute a worldwide you find people in the real Leaders in Fresh Fruit
caliphate. They use the world who are willing to Bouquets There's no better
internet to recruit tolerate listening to your way to say you tried,
vulnerable people around Dr. Who fan theories. without having actually
the world. tried.
The imminent Your tired, your Human decency
nuclear poor, your huddled
apocalypse masses yearning to
breathe free
#99.5_percent_human #late_capitalism
#bandwidth #no_downside
#hominids #big_data
#stealth_mode #brogrammers
#technology #bowling_alone
#common_ancestor #the_internet_of_things