Robert Gaskins invented the PowerPoint idea, managed its development at a start-up for three years, and then headed Microsoft's business unit in Silicon Valley for another five years.
This week I had lunch with a guy from one of Europe's biggest venture funds and even he will take a phone call or look at a PowerPoint of an idea, even if only for a half hour.
It can be a PowerPoint, video, document, or essay.
"At the time we had no system," says Tahar. "Just an idea, a PowerPoint presentation and some slides".
I put together a PowerPoint of the product idea, cold called several newspapers (this was, after all 2004 and people still used classifieds), and convinced the San Francisco Examiner to introduce "never miss the call" as a feature built into all of their classified online and offline ads.
Downloading it to an MP3 player is distinctive, but it's something you do once only; you don't often need to mention the fact that you transferred your music to your iPod, just as you don't often need to discuss turning your ideas into a Powerpoint presentation.
One year ago, our company was just a set of ideas packed into a PowerPoint presentation.
Present your ideas to your parents: Perhaps in a PowerPoint presentation.
I'd thought of new ideas in our seven hours of travel, so we stayed up until 3 a.m. working on a PowerPoint presentation.
He pulled up a PowerPoint.
