Lecture Note__New Venture Startup_MBA_Alto_04-10 Sample business pitch decks - AirBNB and a few others

and follows, and all available deck hands race offto help, kicking up geysers of sand behind them.DOWN THE BEACH,Mrs. Bowman stops dead in her tracks when she rounds the bendin the beach. We dont see what she sees, but we hear thefrenzied SQUEAKING of the strange compys. Mr. Bowman and theHands race past her to help Cathy as Mrs. Bowman lets loose ahorrified, slack-jawed SCREAM, her mouth a perfect oval.DISSOLVE TO:INT. BOARD ROOM - DAYMrs. Bowmans screaming face dissolves slowly over theYAWNING face of a bored CORPORATE EXECUTIVE, TWENTY OTHEREXECUTIVES sit around a conference

A STACK OF CRATES. clearly labeled NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM. Move in onthese as. The CRATES VIBRATE. The boat has started to move!Whittlesley stands bolt upright, realizing whats going on.WHITTLESLEYNo!Too late. He turns to run back on deck but then stops, sniffs the air.A look of desperation fills his eyes. With one hand he pulls out THEKNIFE, and unexpectedly puts it to HIS OWN NECK. Better to killhimself than face what comes next. The knife touches. A NECKLACE of TWO ARROWS, one gold, another silver.Whittlesley stares wide-eyed into the blackness of the hold. The goatsstart

business.FRONT STEPSA few people lounge on the steps flanked by the familiar stone lions.INT. MAIN READING ROOM – DAYPeople are dotted throughout the room sitting at the long oak tables polished by decades of use. Reading lamps with green glass shades cast a golden glow on the tables. The patina of age is everywhere. It is very quiet.LIBRARIANA slightly stout, studious looking girl in her late twenties circulates quietly among the tables picking up books and putting them on her cart. Everything seems completely normal and peaceful.POVA single eerie musical note signals the presence

andQuince, Drew the last to climb on, shuts the door behind himAs Allison hurries away from the whirling rotors.INT. ASTAR HELICOPTER - DAYThe configuration of seats has Drew beside Parrish, in frontof them Quince and Susan opposite each other in single seats.Just as Drew removes color-coded folders from his attachecase and spreads them out for Parrish on his tray table, thepilot waves to Drew, indicating phone call. Drew gets upand heads for the cockpit, Parrish scans the folders, glancesover at Susan who is making some notes on a file of her own.He motions to her to please come

other pair of Interpreters loom out of the darkness, sideby side, ghostly looking, their glasses reflecting the glareof the light table, like magicians staring into a crystalball.IMAGES FILL THE SCREENAerial shots, flashing by. Cuban countryside from 72,500feet. A MAGNIFYING GLASS swings down on its arm in front ofus, magnifying the carpet of trees. and a row of six canvascovered OBJECTS among them.SMASH CUT TO:EXT. WHITE HOUSE - WEST WING - DAYKenny, in business suit and tie, trots up the steps, and aMARINE GUARD snaps the door open for him.INT. WEST WING - CONTINUOUSKenny, b