Chris Laughlin

San Francisco Bay Area United States

Co-Founder of 4th & King | Pitch Assist at First Round

Design

I make the best pitches you’ve ever seen. I spend all my time making founders and their companies look good. But more than that, it’s essential to me that we clearly communicate your revenue model and go-to-market than to debate which shade of blue is most like the sky (it’s #7EC0EE). Yes, the slides will look amazing, and, yes, you’ll get comments about them from investors, but at the end of the day, I optimize for one thing: getting the term sheet. I do it live. The bulk of my work is done real-time, in-person, with you and your CMO watching. We tweak it until it’s right, then we rehearse it until you say “I’m going to be sick if I do it one more time” (That’s an actual quote.) I thr...