October 6, 2024

In Part One, I (mercilessly?) disemboweled the 3 sales pitch strategies that tech startups cling to like life rafts, even though they work about as well as trying to catch a bullet with a butterfly net. In Part Two, I’m moving from teardown to triumph—because it’s not just about pointing out failures; it’s about how to nail it. Welcome to the Paper Cut Pitch. There’s a secret, one locked up tighter than the recipe to

The first sales pitch. It’s like walking into a lion’s den, except the lions are bored executives, and you’re armed with a PowerPoint instead of anything useful. You’ve got the product, the deck, and that dangerous cocktail of adrenaline and optimism whispering, “This is it. Today’s the day.” Then, in the blink of an eye, your prospect’s eyes glaze over like a donut, and you’re watching them mentally check out in slo-mo—probably thinking about lunch.

Authors: (1) Luyang Zhu, University of Washington and Google Research, and work done while the author was an intern at Google; (2) Dawei Yang, Google Research; (3) Tyler Zhu, Google Research; (4) Fitsum Reda, Google Research; (5) William Chan, Google Research; (6) Chitwan Saharia, Google Research; (7) Mohammad Norouzi, Google Research; (8) Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, University of Washington and Google Research. TryOnDiffusion was implemented in JAX [4]. All three diffusion models are trained on 32 TPU-v4

Authors: (1) Luyang Zhu, University of Washington and Google Research, and work done while the author was an intern at Google; (2) Dawei Yang, Google Research; (3) Tyler Zhu, Google Research; (4) Fitsum Reda, Google Research; (5) William Chan, Google Research; (6) Chitwan Saharia, Google Research; (7) Mohammad Norouzi, Google Research; (8) Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, University of Washington and Google Research. Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Related Work 3. Method 3.1. Cascaded Diffusion