OpenAI’s early pitch deck, broken down
How one of the most important companies in tech learned to explain itself
Before ChatGPT.
Before GPT-4.
Before hundreds of millions of users.
OpenAI had to do the same thing every startup does.
They had to pitch.
No proven business model. No clear pricing. A complex, abstract technology. A long-term mission that sounded almost philosophical. And a room of people who needed to believe this wasn’t science fiction.
In this article, you’ll get:
A clear breakdown of OpenAI’s early pitch deck
What each slide was really doing
What founders building complex or ambitious products can steal from it
Below the paywall, I share the actual OpenAI early pitch deck and go through it slide by slide, with concrete takeaways you can apply directly to your own deck.
If you’re building something technical, hard to explain, or early, this is one of the cleanest references you’ll find.