Builds are ways of trying to avoid the audience reading ahead and getting to the conclusion before you've told the story yourself. For example, if you were exp

Builds are ways of trying to avoid the audience reading ahead and getting to the conclusion before you've told the story yourself. For example, if you were explaining your business plan that had three steps: Phase 1: Collect underpants Phase 2: ? Phase 3: Profit Your audience isn't going to be giving you their full attention while you walk them through Phase 1, because they've trying to understand the whole process think through it themselves. Instead a build would use animations or duplicated slides to present this flow: Phase 1: Collect underpants. (click) Phase 2: ? (click) Phase 3: Profit Now you are controlling the visibility of each step. It's very quick to author: create one slide, duplicate it twice, delete content off those two slides. The slides should be there to reinforce your point. You shouldn't be showing a slide and then reading over the content. It's one reason that some of my decks have a lot of slides, some may only be shown for 5-15 seconds.