Ryan Petersen

In fact, my pitch was pretty bad, I think.

I'm like not very good at reading a script and they only give you two minutes.

So you kind of have to have a script if you're going to do a two minute pitch.

But also I was kind of bad because I didn't practice very much.

I had the opportunity to sit there.

I'm in Picasso's studio.

You know, watch Picasso paint.

You know he's about to retire.

So I got to sit there and watch PG critique other people's pitches instead of go, I don't want to sit there and paint.

Like, let me just watch Picasso paint, you know?

So I sat next to him for 12 hours a day for like three days in a row.

watching him critique everyone else's pitch.

What did you learn from that?

This is a proprietary secret I'm going to let you in on.

You should tighten the aspect ratio on your graph, and it'll make the curve look steeper.

I feel like he told everybody that.

Just scratch your graphs and watch how your startup looks hotter.

There's something to that.

You've got to appeal to investors' greed.

I don't know if he taught me that or someone else, but it's kind of the same thing.