This is true for some companies, but not all. Arguably this is not even true for most "startups" in the VC/pg sense. Companies that are not only software, or t

This is true for some companies, but not all. Arguably this is not even true for most "startups" in the VC/pg sense. Companies that are not only software, or that need a lot of money to scale (not just to annihilate competition, but to scale) are common. Note: let's not forget we're talking about a VC pitch deck, not an angel pitch deck. You should theoretically be past finding product/market fit, and be at the "scale really big" stage.