One founder has ditched long pitch decks and presentations for AI. "Famously, the Series A was the only time I made a pitch deck," Aravind Srinivas, the cofounder and CEO of Perplexity , said in an interview with Berkeley Haas released on Saturday. Perplexity announced its $25.6 million Series A round in March 2023. Pitch decks are slide shows that give investors and customers key details about a company's founders, its product, and its financial performance. "I just write a memo and I tell