Top 20 Presentation Examples: Why Each One Works, With an Outline to Copy

Disclosure: NOXI publishes this page and appears in it only as one way to build the deck. The twenty examples are other people's talks, decks and formats, described in our own words from the owners' pages, all opened on 9 November 2026. We reproduce none of their slides; every outline below is a structure for your own material.

Most galleries of presentation examples show you slides. That helps with colour and layout and little else, because what makes a talk work is the order of its ideas. This page does the opposite: twenty presentations whose owners still publish them, or the rules behind them, with the structure pulled out so you can pour your own topic into it.

Top 20 presentation examples, sorted so you can pick in ten seconds

Find your row, then jump to the numbers. The second column is the slot you have; each example's own running time is under its heading and in the map below.

Key numbers

Six numbers from the owners' own pages, read on 9 November 2026. Play counts move daily; rules rarely.

How we chose these 20 presentation examples

Three tests. The owner still publishes it. Its structure can be described without its slides, so you reuse the order of ideas, not anyone's design. And nothing central to it is disputed: we left out talks whose main research claim has been contested, and pitch decks that circulate only as leaked copies. Where the owner publishes an order (Sequoia, Y Combinator, Kawasaki), the outline follows it; where the owner publishes no template (Amazon, BOND), the outline is ours and says so.

Which presentation example fits you: six quick routes

• If you are a student with a strict time slot → copy Ignite or PechaKucha, because the slides advance on their own every 15 or 20 seconds and the format cuts your script for you [17] [18].
• If you are explaining research to non-specialists → rehearse to the Three Minute Thesis rules: one static slide, three minutes, disqualification for running over [19].
• If you are pitching investors → use Sequoia's ten sections or Y Combinator's seed order, then read Reid Hoffman's notes on LinkedIn's 2004 deck on opening with your investment thesis [4] [5] [6].
• If you are presenting numbers → follow Hans Rosling's 2006 TED talk: a quiz first, then one moving chart per point [9].
• If you are rehearsing alone in PowerPoint → use Speaker Coach, which Microsoft's page, read on 9 November 2026, says evaluates pacing, filler words and whether you are reading the slide, in English only [22].
• If you want the deck made around one of these structures → use NOXI: keep the Presentation format, name the example and your topic in one request, and export to PowerPoint, free to start with five documents a month [24].

Presentation examples for business: a launch, a memo and a report

Three formats for three jobs: excite a room about one thing, get a room to decide, give a market a reference it keeps.

1. Apple's iPhone launch, Macworld 2007: three products, one reveal

When: Steve Jobs at Macworld San Francisco, 9 January 2007; Nancy Duarte, who mapped it in her own TEDx talk, calls it a 90-minute talk [1] [14]. Best for: launching a product or service.

Apple's release from that day frames iPhone as three products combined: a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls and an internet communications device, at $499 and $599 in the US from June 2007 [1]. That framing is the structure: the audience hears three things it already wants, one at a time, then learns they are one product.

Why it works: each job gets its own moment before the reveal, so the device lands as the answer to three needs, not a feature list.

Slide outline to copy:

1. Today we launch [name], and the date it is available.
2. Job one, in your users' words, with today's pain.
3. Job two, the same way.
4. Job three, the same way.
5. The reveal: one product, shown working.
6. Price or start date, and the sentence to repeat tomorrow.

2. Amazon's six-page memo: a meeting with no slides at all

When: Jeff Bezos described it in Amazon's 2017 letter to shareholders, published 18 April 2018 [2]. Best for: a decision meeting, such as a budget request or a proposal to leadership.

The letter says Amazon does not use PowerPoint or any slide-oriented presentation. Teams write narratively structured six-page memos, and each meeting starts with everyone reading one in silence, a kind of study hall; a great memo can take a week or more [2]. It is the counter-example on this list: the room reads the whole argument before anyone performs it. Give the reading its own slot at the top of the agenda, as in our meeting agenda template.

Why it works: full sentences expose gaps that bullets hide, and silent reading puts everyone at the same starting line.

Memo outline to copy (ours; the letter gives no template):

1. The decision you need, in two sentences.
2. What is true today, with sourced numbers.
3. The options, doing nothing included.
4. Your recommendation and its main risk.
5. Cost, owners and dates.
6. The questions you expect, answered.

3. BOND's AI trends report, May 2025: 340 pages that read as eight arguments

When: published in May 2025 by BOND, the investment firm where Mary Meeker is a partner, under the title Trends: Artificial Intelligence; its site's viewer shows 340 pages in eight sections, and its home page lists Internet Trends reports from 1995 to 2019 [3]. Best for: an annual review or market report meant to be read and kept.

The table of contents is the lesson. Seven of the eight section titles are written as equations, such as "AI User + Usage + CapEx Growth = Unprecedented", so a reader who opens only the contents still gets the story [3]. Long reports fail when headings are topics ("Market", "Users"); this one states a claim in every heading and spends the pages proving it.

Why it works: every section title is a conclusion, so the contents page doubles as the summary.

Report outline to copy (ours):

1. Cover and a one-page summary of the claims.
2. Contents in which every title states a claim.
3. Section openers with the single strongest number.
4. One chart per page, a headline saying what it shows, the source underneath.
5. What it means for the reader's own work.

Pitch deck examples published by the people who read them

The most reliable pitch deck examples come from the investors and founders who published the order themselves. Four, with what each adds.

4. LinkedIn's 2004 Series B deck, annotated by Reid Hoffman

When: the deck Reid Hoffman used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B in 2004, shared with his notes [4]. Best for: a later round, or asking for more money after a first tranche.

Hoffman shared it because nobody gets to see the decks of successful companies, and flags its stylistic errors himself. His main advice: open with your investment thesis, what investors must believe to want to own the company, on a first slide of generally 3 to 8 bullet points. Two slides compared what LinkedIn promised in its Series A with what it did, and one slide stayed on screen during questions [4].

Why it works: every slide after the first is evidence for a belief the investor was handed on slide 1.

Slide outline to copy:

1. The thesis: 3 to 8 bullets on what the audience must believe.
2. Evidence, one slide per belief.
3. What we promised last time, and what we did.
4. The risks, named before anyone asks.
5. Competitive advantage and business model.
6. The ask, and a slide to leave up during questions.

5. Sequoia's business plan in ten sections

Where: Sequoia Capital's own guide to writing a business plan [5]. Best for: a first pitch, a startup competition, a business plan as slides.

The order is company purpose, problem, solution, why now, market potential, competition and alternatives, business model, team, financials and vision, with the purpose as a single declarative sentence [5]. Read it once and you hear an investor's questions in the order they arrive.

Why it works: it answers questions in the order they are asked, so nobody has to interrupt.

Six-slide version for a five-minute slot:

1. Company purpose in one sentence.
2. Problem, with the person who has it.
3. Solution and why now.
4. Market potential and today's alternatives.
5. Business model and team.
6. Financials and vision.

6. Y Combinator's seed round pitch deck

When: Aaron Harris on Y Combinator's Startup Library, written a week before Demo Day for the Winter 2018 batch [6]. Best for: a seed round or an accelerator application.

The template runs from a title slide with the name and a one-line description, through problem, solution, traction, what makes you special, business model, market and team, to the ask: how much you need and what it gets you. The title is the only single slide; every other entry starts a set that should rarely pass three. Harris's summary is to focus on narrative [6].

Why it works: traction comes fourth, early enough for the numbers to carry the rest.

Slide outline to copy:

1. Name and one line on what you do.
2. The problem and who it hurts.
3. The solution, in as few words as possible.
4. Traction, with the numbers made clear.
5. Insight, business model, market and team.
6. The ask, and where it gets you within a year.

7. Guy Kawasaki's 10/20/30 rule

When: Guy Kawasaki's blog, 30 December 2005 [7]. Best for: any presentation meant to reach agreement; he names raising capital, making a sale and forming a partnership.

Ten slides, no more than twenty minutes, no font smaller than thirty points. The ten topics: problem, your solution, business model, underlying magic or technology, marketing and sales, competition, team, projections and milestones, status and timeline, and a summary with a call to action. Twenty minutes in an hour slot leaves forty for discussion, and his font rule for doubters is the oldest person's age divided by two [7].

Why it works: big type limits the words, and a short talk leaves time for the conversation that decides the deal.

Twenty-minute plan to copy:

1. Minutes 0 to 4: problem and solution.
2. Minutes 4 to 8: business model and the technology.
3. Minutes 8 to 12: marketing and sales, competition.
4. Minutes 12 to 16: team, projections and milestones.
5. Minutes 16 to 20: status, timeline, summary and the ask.

Our AI pitch deck generator review covers tools that build these orders, and the slides per minute table covers slots that are not twenty minutes.

TED talk presentation examples: seven shapes for one idea

TED's rules say TEDx talks typically run under 18 minutes, most often with one presenter, with no panels or audience questions [21]. Seven talks, seven shapes; running times and plays as each talk's page printed them on 9 November 2026.

8. Ken Robinson, "Do schools kill creativity?" (TED2006)

When: February 2006, 19 minutes 11 seconds, 80,748,941 plays [8]. Best for: arguing that a familiar system should change.

Robinson ties his opening to three themes the conference had already heard, then states his contention within three minutes: creativity now matters in education as much as literacy. The rest is evidence told as stories: a six-year-old in a drawing lesson, his son in a nativity play, the ranking of school subjects, three things he says we know about intelligence, and a dancer whose school thought she had a problem [8].

Why it works: the claim comes early, every point arrives as a story first, and humour keeps a long argument light.

Talk outline to copy:

1. Link to what the room already heard.
2. Your claim in one sentence, before minute three.
3. Two short stories that show it.
4. The habit or system that works against it.
5. Three things we know, each named.
6. One longer story with a turn, then your ask.

9. Hans Rosling, "The best stats you've ever seen" (TED2006)

When: February 2006, 19 minutes 36 seconds, 16,136,942 plays [9]. Best for: any talk built on data, from a geography project to a market review.

Rosling opens with a quiz his top Swedish students did worse on than chance, and names the problem as preconceived ideas. Then the chart: each bubble a country, its size the population, children per woman on one axis and life expectancy on the other, moving year by year from about 1962. He compares two countries directly, splits a regional average to show what it hides, and near the end argues for public data anyone can search [9].

Why it works: the audience commits to a wrong answer first, so the moving chart corrects something they believed a minute ago.

Slide outline to copy:

1. A three-question quiz on what the audience assumes.
2. The answers, and the gap between belief and data.
3. One chart of change over time, explained axis by axis.
4. Two cases side by side.
5. One average split into its parts.
6. Where the audience can look it up themselves.

10. Simon Sinek, "How great leaders inspire action" (TEDxPuget Sound)

When: September 2009, 17 minutes 47 seconds, 71,392,019 plays [10]. Best for: a leadership, mission or brand talk.

TED describes it as a simple model starting with a golden circle and the question why [10]. Three rings, why, how and what, and the claim that inspiring organisations communicate from the inside out. The examples carry it: Apple, the Wright brothers against a better-funded rival, a product that failed by leading with features, the 1963 crowd in Washington. His summary: people buy why you do something, not what you do [10].

Why it works: one drawing the audience can redraw from memory, and every example tests the same idea.

Talk outline to copy:

1. A puzzle: why do some succeed where better-resourced rivals fail?
2. Your model, drawn once, in three parts.
3. A familiar example told through the model.
4. A success and a failure on the same model.
5. The one sentence it all comes down to.

11. Brené Brown, "The power of vulnerability" (TEDxHouston)

When: June 2010, 20 minutes 2 seconds, 71,462,324 plays [11]. Best for: research presented to people outside your field.

Brown introduces herself as a researcher-storyteller and walks through her work in order: she set out to study connection, found what unravels it, and after six years of stories and interviews identified what one group had in common. Then the turn: she disliked her own finding and spent about a year working through it before going back to the research [11].

Why it works: the researcher becomes the case study, so the data and the story are the same thing.

Talk outline to copy:

1. Who you are, in one honest line.
2. The question you set out to answer.
3. What you found, and on how much evidence.
4. The moment the finding applied to you.
5. What changed, and what you ask the audience to try.

12. Tim Urban, "Inside the mind of a master procrastinator" (TED2016)

When: February 2016, 13 minutes 54 seconds, 79,366,500 plays [12]. Best for: students, and light talks on heavy subjects.

Urban starts with the 90-page senior thesis he left too late, then introduces three drawn characters: a Rational Decision-Maker, an Instant Gratification Monkey and a Panic Monster that wakes when a deadline nears. His own TED invitation is the second example. The turn is procrastination with no deadline, and the talk ends on a grid with one box for every week of a 90-year life [12].

Why it works: named characters make an abstract habit visible, and the last slide turns the joke into a question about your own time.

Slide outline to copy:

1. Your own story of the problem, told against yourself.
2. Two or three characters for the forces involved.
3. A second story where they play out again.
4. The case nobody talks about.
5. One picture that makes the stakes personal.

13. Bill Gates, "The next outbreak? We're not ready" (TED2015)

When: March 2015, 8 minutes 23 seconds, 46,754,853 plays [13]. Best for: warning a board or a team about a risk, with a plan attached.

Gates opens with the barrel of food his family kept for a nuclear war, then says the greater risk now is a virus. Ebola is the case: no system at all, and three reasons it did not spread further, one of them luck. A model of an airborne virus like the 1918 flu shows the worse case. Then a plan borrowed from how armies prepare, its cost called modest next to a World Bank estimate of the harm, and a close: no need to panic, but time to start [13].

Why it works: in eight minutes it moves from fear to a fundable plan, and the prop makes the comparison concrete.

Slide outline to copy:

1. A familiar old risk, and one object for it.
2. The new risk, stated plainly.
3. A recent case, and what was missing.
4. The worse case, modelled.
5. The plan in named parts, its cost against the harm.
6. A calm close and a start date.

14. Nancy Duarte, "The secret structure of great talks" (TEDxEast)

When: November 2011, 18 minutes, 3,922,454 plays [14]. Best for: planning any persuasive talk on a shape.

Duarte describes a shape she found after studying three-act structure, hero archetypes and Gustav Freytag's 1863 pyramid. A talk opens with what is. The middle moves back and forth between what is and what could be. The end is a call to action and a picture of the better world. She overlays it on Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech and on Steve Jobs' 2007 iPhone launch, example 1 here [14].

Why it works: the contrast between now and possible creates tension a list of points never does.

Talk outline to copy:

1. What is: the situation your audience recognises.
2. What could be, stated boldly.
3. Back to what is: the obstacle or objection.
4. What could be: evidence it is possible.
5. The call to action, and the world afterwards.

Storytelling presentation examples: two speeches, no slides needed

Both were given without slides, and both convert easily into a deck because their structure shows in the text.

15. Steve Jobs at Stanford, 12 June 2005: three stories

When: the commencement address Stanford publishes as the prepared text delivered on 12 June 2005 [15]. Best for: graduation, farewell, award and personal talks.

He announces the structure in the second paragraph: three stories from his life, nothing more. The first is about connecting the dots, the second about love and loss, the third about death, and each ends on one lesson [15].

Why it works: giving the count up front turns one long personal speech into three short ones the audience can track.

Slide outline to copy:

1. One line of context, and the promise: three stories.
2. Story one, its lesson as the slide title.
3. Story two, the same way.
4. Story three, the same way.
5. What the three share, as your send-off.

16. John F. Kennedy at Rice University, 12 September 1962

When: President Kennedy in Houston on the nation's space effort; the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library's video item runs 19 minutes and is in the public domain [16]. Best for: announcing a large goal with a deadline.

Its best-known device is a compression: condense 50,000 years of recorded history into half a century, and recent progress looks as fast as it is. Then the goal: the Moon within the decade, chosen because it is hard [16]. Goal, deadline and reason arrive in one sentence.

Why it works: the compressed timeline makes an impossible-sounding goal feel like the next step.

Slide outline to copy:

1. Where we are, on a timeline compressed to human scale.
2. What changed in the last stretch of it.
3. The goal and the date, in one sentence.
4. Why this goal, and why hard is the point.
5. What it takes, and who starts on Monday.

Short presentation examples: four formats with a clock

A fixed clock is the fastest editor there is. Each of these formats publishes its rules, and each forces a different cut.

17. PechaKucha 20x20: 20 images, 20 seconds each

When: created in Japan in 2003 by the architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham; the name is Japanese for chit chat, and events run in more than 1,200 cities [17]. Best for: students, project showcases, design reviews.

Twenty images, each advancing after 20 seconds: 400 seconds, non-stop [17]. You cannot linger, so each slide gets one picture and one thought. In PowerPoint, the After box on the Transitions tab sets the automatic advance [23]. Our PechaKucha presentation guide covers the script.

Why it works: a new image every 20 seconds, and no room for filler.

Outline to copy (20 slides, four movements):

1. Slides 1 to 3: why this topic, and the question.
2. Slides 4 to 10: what you found or made.
3. Slides 11 to 16: the hard part, and what changed.
4. Slides 17 to 20: what it means, and the last image.

18. Ignite: 20 slides, 15 seconds, 5 minutes

When: begun as a single event in Seattle in 2006 by Brady Forrest and Bre Pettis; Ignite says events have run in 350 cities [18]. Best for: a class talk with a hard stop, a lightning slot, a team update.

Every talk lasts five minutes, no more and no less, with 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds [18]. That is a quarter less time per slide than PechaKucha, so each slide holds one sentence of script.

Why it works: auto-advance treats every speaker the same, and five minutes is short enough to stay sharp.

Outline to copy:

1. Slides 1 and 2: the hook and the promise.
2. Slides 3 to 8: three points, two slides each.
3. Slides 9 to 16: one story that proves them.
4. Slides 17 to 20: the takeaway, then thanks.

19. The Three Minute Thesis (3MT)

When: developed by the University of Queensland, first held there in 2008 with 160 research students, now run in over 900 universities in more than 85 countries [19]. Best for: research students and any expert explaining work to non-specialists.

The rules: three minutes at most, with anyone over disqualified; one static slide, no transitions or animation; spoken word only; no props, sound or video. The university's own framing is that an 80,000-word thesis would take nine hours to present [19].

Why it works: one slide and three minutes force the single sentence that makes your work matter to a stranger.

Script outline for the one slide:

1. The problem, in words a neighbour would use.
2. What you are doing about it.
3. What you have found, in one number or image.
4. Why it matters to the people in the room.

For the long version, our thesis defense presentation guide gives the slide structure.

20. The Toastmasters Ice Breaker: a first speech about yourself

When: Toastmasters International's magazine, August 2023 issue, calls it the first prepared speech in Toastmasters: 4 to 6 minutes about yourself, now part of each Pathways path [20]. Best for: a first club speech, a class introduction, a new-team welcome.

The magazine's advice is to make it about you: a hobby, your work, something from growing up, why you joined [20]. Our about me presentation template turns the same idea into five slides.

Why it works: you are the one subject you cannot get wrong.

Outline to copy:

1. An opening line people will remember you by.
2. Two or three things about you, each with an example.
3. Why you are in this room.
4. A close that ties back to the opening.

What good presentation examples have in common

Put the twenty side by side and six habits repeat. None is about colour or font.

If you still need a topic before a structure, our presentation ideas list groups them by audience.

Presentation examples for students, by age and class

Students usually get a topic and a time limit, and little about structure. Match the example to the slot.

Teachers can borrow the rules directly: an Ignite or PechaKucha timer, or the 3MT's one static slide, makes marking fairer because everyone works in the same frame.

What to check before you present

• Copy the structure, not the slides. The order of ideas is free to reuse; slides, photos, recordings and long passages belong to their owners. Quote at most a short line with the speaker's name, and link the original.
• Time it aloud, twice. Ignite and PechaKucha advance without you, and the 3MT disqualifies anyone past three minutes [17] [18] [19].
• Check every number against its source and date. Play counts and rules here are as printed on 9 November 2026. Put the source and year under every figure on your own slides.
• Read your event's own rules. The organiser's page decides. TED, for example, says any TEDx talk over 18 minutes is reviewed before it is published [21].
• Verify famous quotes on a primary page, such as the Stanford and JFK Library texts used here, before a well-known line goes on a slide [15] [16].

Four ready requests to paste

Each names an example's structure, which gets you its order rather than a generic deck. Replace the text in brackets; check every figure the tool returns.

Make it in NOXI: example 1 rebuilt for your topic in one request

NOXI's Presentation format builds a deck around one of these structures from a single request. Here is the route for example 1, from the request to a view link and a PowerPoint file, as described in our NOXI 2.0 launch article of 3 November 2026 [24].

Frequently asked questions

What are good presentation examples to learn from?

Start with ones whose owners still publish them: Apple's 2007 iPhone launch, Hans Rosling's and Ken Robinson's 2006 TED talks, Simon Sinek's golden circle, LinkedIn's Series B deck annotated by Reid Hoffman, Sequoia's ten-section pitch and Amazon's six-page memo. Study the order of ideas in each one, not the slide design.

What are some presentation examples for students?

For a five-minute class talk, copy Ignite: 20 slides at 15 seconds each. For 6 minutes 40 seconds, PechaKucha's 20 images at 20 seconds. Research students can practise the Three Minute Thesis, with one static slide in three minutes. For a data project, follow Hans Rosling's quiz, chart and comparison pattern.

What are good storytelling presentation examples?

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford commencement address announces three stories and ends each on one lesson. Brené Brown's 2010 TEDxHouston talk moves from six years of research to her own turning point. Tim Urban's 2016 TED talk builds a whole argument from three drawn characters. Each puts a story before every claim.

Which TED talk presentation examples are worth studying?

Seven with different shapes: Ken Robinson's stories as evidence (2006), Hans Rosling's moving data (2006), Simon Sinek's golden circle (2009), Brené Brown's research turn (2010), Nancy Duarte's what is and what could be (2011), Bill Gates' risk and plan (2015) and Tim Urban's three characters (2016). TEDx talks typically run under 18 minutes.

Where can I find real pitch deck examples?

From the people who read them. Reid Hoffman published the deck he used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock in 2004, with notes on what worked. Sequoia lists ten sections, from company purpose to vision. Y Combinator's seed template runs from the title slide to the ask. Guy Kawasaki's 2005 rule is ten slides in twenty minutes.

What are short presentation examples for a 3 or 5 minute slot?

Three formats publish their rules. Ignite gives five minutes: 20 slides that advance every 15 seconds. The Three Minute Thesis allows three minutes and one static slide, and disqualifies anyone who runs over. The Toastmasters Ice Breaker, a first speech about yourself, runs 4 to 6 minutes. PechaKucha is longer, at 400 seconds.

What is a good presentation example for business?

Match it to the job. To launch something, use Apple's 2007 iPhone framing: three products revealed as one. To get a decision, use Amazon's six-page memo, read in silence at the start of the meeting. To report on a market, study BOND's 340-page AI trends report of May 2025, whose section titles each state a claim.

How many slides should a presentation have?

It depends on the format and the clock. Ignite and PechaKucha fix it at 20, the Three Minute Thesis allows one, and Guy Kawasaki's pitch rule is ten slides in twenty minutes. Without a rule, start from the time you have and the number of ideas, with one idea per slide.

Can I copy the slides from a famous presentation?

Copy the structure, not the slides. The order of ideas is free to reuse, but the slides, photos, recordings and long passages belong to their owners. Describe the example in your own words, quote at most a short line with the speaker's name, and link the original, as this page does for all twenty examples.

Can AI turn a presentation example into my own deck?

Yes, if you name the structure in the request. In NOXI, keep the Presentation format and write one request such as "built like Apple's 2007 iPhone launch: three jobs, then the reveal" with your own product. NOXI sketches each slide, designs it in a fitting style and exports PowerPoint with live text.

Sources and method

How this page was made: every date, running time, play count, rule and order comes from the owner's own page, opened signed out on 9 November 2026, with no cookie banner accepted and nothing downloaded. The talk descriptions are our summaries of the talks and their transcripts on those pages. The outlines are editorial structures, not copies, and those for examples 2 and 3 are ours. Keystone and its firm are fictional.

• [1] "Apple Reinvents the Phone with iPhone", Macworld San Francisco, 9 January 2007: iPhone combines three products, a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls and an internet communications device; 3.5-inch display; US prices $499 (4GB) and $599 (8GB); available in the US in June 2007 · Apple Newsroom.
• [2] 2017 Letter to Shareholders, published 18 April 2018: no PowerPoint or other slide-oriented presentations; narratively structured six-page memos read in silence at the start of each meeting, a kind of "study hall"; a high-standards memo might take a week or more · Amazon, 2017 Letter to Shareholders.
• [3] Trends: Artificial Intelligence, dated May 2025 in its title: 340 pages in the site's viewer, eight sections, seven of them titled as equations such as "AI User + Usage + CapEx Growth = Unprecedented"; the BOND home page lists Internet Trends reports from 1995 to 2019 and Mary Meeker among its partners · BOND, Trends: Artificial Intelligence (May 2025) and BOND home page.
• [4] The deck Reid Hoffman used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment in 2004, shared with commentary; open with your investment thesis, the first slide in generally 3 to 8 bullet points; slides 10 and 11 compared the Series A promises with what was done; a slide left on screen during questions; fewer slides are better, but a great deck matters more. The page carries no publication date · Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock.
• [5] Sections in order: company purpose, problem, solution, why now, market potential, competition and alternatives, business model, team, financials, vision; the purpose as a single declarative sentence · Sequoia Capital, Writing a Business Plan.
• [6] By Aaron Harris, written a week before Demo Day for the Winter 2018 batch: title slide with the name and a one-line description, problem, solution, traction, what makes you special, business model, market, team, the ask; the title is the only single slide, other sets rarely more than three; "Focus on narrative." · Y Combinator, How to build your seed round pitch deck.
• [7] Posted 30 December 2005: ten slides, no more than twenty minutes, no font smaller than thirty points; the ten topics in order; twenty minutes in an hour slot leaves forty for discussion; the font size as the oldest person's age divided by two · Guy Kawasaki, The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint.
• [8] TED2006, February 2006, running time 1,151 seconds (19:11), 80,748,941 plays on 9 November 2026; talk and transcript · TED, Ken Robinson, Do schools kill creativity?.
• [9] TED2006, February 2006, running time 1,176 seconds (19:36), 16,136,942 plays; the quiz, the bubble chart of children per woman against life expectancy from about 1962, the split of a regional average, the case for searchable public data · TED, Hans Rosling, The best stats you've ever seen.
• [10] TEDxPuget Sound, September 2009, running time 1,067 seconds (17:47), 71,392,019 plays; TED's description of a golden circle and the question why · TED, Simon Sinek, How great leaders inspire action.
• [11] TEDxHouston, June 2010, running time 1,202 seconds (20:02), 71,462,324 plays · TED, Brené Brown, The power of vulnerability.
• [12] TED2016, February 2016, running time 834 seconds (13:54), 79,366,500 plays · TED, Tim Urban, Inside the mind of a master procrastinator.
• [13] TED2015, March 2015, running time 503 seconds (8:23), 46,754,853 plays · TED, Bill Gates, The next outbreak? We're not ready.
• [14] TEDxEast, November 2011, running time 1,080 seconds (18:00), 3,922,454 plays; the shape of what is and what could be, the call to action, and the overlays on the "I have a dream" speech and Steve Jobs' 2007 iPhone launch, described as a 90-minute talk · TED, Nancy Duarte, The secret structure of great talks.
• [15] Prepared text of the Commencement Address delivered by Steve Jobs on 12 June 2005: three stories, about connecting the dots, love and loss, and death · Stanford Report, 'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says.
• [16] Rice University, 12 September 1962; video item of 19 minutes, public domain; transcript with the condensing of 50,000 years of recorded history into half a century and the goal of the Moon in this decade · John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Address at Rice University.
• [17] 20 images, each auto-advancing after 20 seconds, 400 seconds; created in Japan in 2003 by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham; Japanese for "chit chat"; events in 1,200+ cities · PechaKucha, About.
• [18] 20 slides, 15 seconds a slide, 5 minutes; slides auto-advance every 15 seconds; a single event in Seattle in 2006 hosted by co-founders Brady Forrest and Bre Pettis; 350 cities · Ignite Talks, About.
• [19] Rules: 3 minutes maximum, over 3 minutes disqualified; a single static PowerPoint slide with no transitions or animation; spoken word; no props or extra media. History: first held at UQ in 2008 with 160 candidates; now in over 900 universities across more than 85 countries; an 80,000-word thesis would take 9 hours to present · University of Queensland, 3MT competition rules and 3MT history.
• [20] Toastmasters magazine, August 2023: the Ice Breaker is the first prepared speech, 4 to 6 minutes, a short speech about yourself, now an integral part of each Pathways path · Toastmasters International, 6 Secrets for Surviving Your First Ice Breaker.
• [21] TEDx talks are typically under 18 minutes and most often delivered by a single presenter; no panels or audience Q&A; formats such as dialogues can run up to 30 minutes, and any talk over 18 minutes is reviewed before it is published · TED, TEDx Rules.
• [22] Speaker Coach evaluates pacing, pitch, filler words, informal speech and culturally sensitive terms, and detects when you are reading the slide; English only · Microsoft Support, Rehearse your slide show with Speaker Coach.
• [23] Advance Slide: select the After check box and enter the time to advance automatically · Microsoft Support, Set the timing and speed of a transition.
• [24] NOXI 2.0, published 3 November 2026: Presentation as one of fourteen formats; sketches every page first; a design library of more than ninety styles; edit by chat or by hand; view link anyone can open and download from without an account; export to PDF, PowerPoint and Word compared with the pages; five documents a month free · NOXI 2.0 launch article on this blog, linked in the section above.

Pick the example that fits your room and your clock, copy its order rather than its slides, and rehearse it aloud to a hard stop. One NOXI request with your own topic can make the first draft.