Meanings
plural pitch decks
- A short presentation in order to pitch a product
For £498m, Chetwoods estimates, it can turn the line into a chute for 16,000 deliveries per hour, erasing a quarter of daily city traffic in the process. Selfridges is interested, a Chetwoods pitch deck told me; so are John Lewis, DHL and Amazon.
2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian
Origin
From pitch (a persuasive sales talk) and deck (ellipsis of slide deck).
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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