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There are inefficiencies in the investment banking world where marketing materials and other pitch deck materials is too manual. We have highly compensated indi

There are inefficiencies in the investment banking world where marketing materials and other pitch deck materials is too manual. We have highly compensated individuals perfecting PowerPoints but too many of the slide creation companies are not relevant for what bankers do. Would love to create something and have ideas on how to make it work but limited tech experience.

kaashif 5y ago
It blows my mind that this isn't a solved problem. Isn't there a substantial profit motive in investment banks to allow analysts to do more with their time? And I guess the other people with this motive are analysts themselves, but they have no time in their 110 hour work weeks to sleep, let alone do something like this.
tacostakohashi 5y ago
> inefficiencies in the investment banking world where marketing materials and other pitch deck materials is too manual Really? I suspect it's actually pretty efficient getting analysts to do this and paying them for 40 out of the 110 hours they work each week.
- chrisgd 5y ago
  Depends upon your interest in burning out your analyst. It all starts with the same data, then downloaded to excel and each sector group classifies and cuts a different way. When you go to update, most of that is lost in excel or to a previous team member, not stored by sector or product group on the cloud. If I categorize Certara as digital health, they should be like that for my team but pharma for the pharma team.
vqc 5y ago
@chrisgd what's the best way to reach you / can you ping me at the email in my profile?
smallbluedot 5y ago
I'm interested in niche product opportunities like this. I'm a product designer and web developer. If interested in chatting you can find contact info in my profile.
anupmm 5y ago
We are solving this problem in a way with our product plot-ai.com. It is essentially a full blown data visualization platform within Excel with publishing capabilities to PowerPoint and the Web. Would really love your take on this and open to chat. anup@plot-ai.com

kaashif 5y ago

It blows my mind that this isn't a solved problem. Isn't there a substantial profit motive in investment banks to allow analysts to do more with their time? And I guess the other people with this motive are analysts themselves, but they have no time in their 110 hour work weeks to sleep, let alone do something like this.

tacostakohashi 5y ago

> inefficiencies in the investment banking world where marketing materials and other pitch deck materials is too manual Really? I suspect it's actually pretty efficient getting analysts to do this and paying them for 40 out of the 110 hours they work each week.

chrisgd 5y ago
Depends upon your interest in burning out your analyst. It all starts with the same data, then downloaded to excel and each sector group classifies and cuts a different way. When you go to update, most of that is lost in excel or to a previous team member, not stored by sector or product group on the cloud. If I categorize Certara as digital health, they should be like that for my team but pharma for the pharma team.

vqc 5y ago

@chrisgd what's the best way to reach you / can you ping me at the email in my profile?

smallbluedot 5y ago

I'm interested in niche product opportunities like this. I'm a product designer and web developer. If interested in chatting you can find contact info in my profile.

anupmm 5y ago

We are solving this problem in a way with our product plot-ai.com. It is essentially a full blown data visualization platform within Excel with publishing capabilities to PowerPoint and the Web. Would really love your take on this and open to chat. anup@plot-ai.com