Ashkan Alizadeh

Building Free AI pitch deck generator. Helping first-time founders skip the $5K pitch deck consultant.

[Ashkan Alizadeh @ashcyp]

@claudeai 20 minutes in with my max $200 plan

[Ashkan Alizadeh @ashcyp]

@HarryStebbings @pmarca This is the part nobody talks about. 10 years of consistency before the "overnight success" moment. Most people would have quit at year 3 when the podcast wasn't growing fast enough. The founders who win are the ones who keep showing up when nobody's watching.

[Ashkan Alizadeh @ashcyp]

This is where things are headed. Every business book becomes an AI workflow. The gap between "I read about how to start a company" and "I actually have a pitch deck, landing page, and first 10 customers" used to be months. Now it's a weekend. The founders who figure this out first have an insane advantage over everyone still doing it the old way.

[Ashkan Alizadeh @ashcyp]

@Bfaviero Meanwhile European founders are building profitable companies on a fraction of that. Maybe the US model of burning $30M to find product market fit isn't the flex everyone thinks it is.

[Ashkan Alizadeh @ashcyp]

@evanbuhler The rejection part nobody prepares you for isn't from investors. It's from potential customers who say "cool idea" and then never respond to the follow-up.

[Ashkan Alizadeh @ashcyp]

@harshdeeprapal You forgot "put it in a pitch deck with a TAM slide that says $50B" and you're funded by lunch.

[Ashkan Alizadeh @ashcyp]

@TosinOlugbenga Disagree slightly. The deck still matters, but it's changed. It's not a sales doc anymore, it's a proof doc. Best decks I've seen lately just show the numbers and get out of the way. What's working for you instead?

[Ashkan Alizadeh @ashcyp]

Honestly most VCs define "competitive" based on vibes, not logic. I've seen funds pass because a portfolio company shared 2 keywords in the description even though the actual product was completely different. Best move is to just ask them directly before the pitch so you don't waste each other's time.

[Ashkan Alizadeh @ashcyp]

@boardyai And yet it always does. The deck alone takes most founders weeks when it should take a day.

[Ashkan Alizadeh @ashcyp]

@yuliyayugo step 0 nobody talks about: having a deck worth forwarding. most cold intros die because the person forwarding it didn't even open the deck themselves.

[Ashkan Alizadeh @ashcyp]

@brettcalhounn love this. the "interesting but risky" founders are always the ones worth betting on early. safe ideas don't need VC money.

[Ashkan Alizadeh @ashcyp]

@1752vc pioneer fund at $20k for 1% is the best deal on this list by far. low dilution, real credibility, and you keep control. most early founders give away way too much equity chasing a bigger check they don't even need yet.

[Ashkan Alizadeh @ashcyp]

@StephNass the real feedback is whether they intro you to someone else or not. if they don't, that IS the feedback.

[Ashkan Alizadeh @ashcyp]

@StephNass exactly this. the best decks i've seen read like a cold email not a business plan. make them want the meeting, don't try to close in 15 slides.

[Ashkan Alizadeh @ashcyp]

@paulg number 2 hits hard. most founders i talk to spend weeks perfecting their deck and website before showing anything to a single customer. by the time they launch the market already moved.

[Ashkan Alizadeh @ashcyp]

I kept meeting people with great ideas who never started.

Not because the idea was bad, but because they didn't know what comes after "I have an idea."

So I built it.

You describe your idea. The platform does the rest:

→ Validates if it has legs
→ Builds your pitch deck
→ Creates your financial model
→ Launches your website
→ Maps your first 100 customers
→ Writes your pitch script

Everything connects. One system that knows your entire startup.

Free. No credit card.

https://t.co/fHmahGyxsT

[Ashkan Alizadeh @ashcyp]

@mattshumer_ am I the only one who is starting to think that people are either getting paid by openAI or haven't used the full potential of Claude Code

[Claude @claudeai]

Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude. Keep thinking.

[Ashkan Alizadeh @ashcyp]

Every founder’s first week in one sentence:
“I have an idea… but what if they steal it?”

🎬 How (Not) To Start a Startup — Episode 1: The Idea

#startups #founderhumor #entrepreneurship #indiefilm

[Ashkan Alizadeh @ashcyp]

Stop pitching seven things. Pick ONE and walk right in.