I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn.
Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.
When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.
If you make money, you might not make meaning.
What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever....
At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind...
The A-listers and the A+ listers, are reporting the news, they're not making it.
A 50-year-old company can innovate as well as two guys/gals in a garage.
If you look at my Twitter feed it is 99% links, but 1% is me responding and 1% of a big number is a big number.