Jack Dorsey Bans Slide Decks, Forcing Workers To Actually Make Stuff
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- •Jack Dorsey announced that since February, Block employees have stopped using slide decks in meetings and now present live prototypes instead.
- •He highlighted prototypes’ advantage for real-time modification and said AI-driven efficiency was a reason behind last year's layoffs of 40% of Block's workforce.
- •Tech leaders like Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos have also criticized slides, favoring memos and interactive Q&A formats instead.
In what feels like the digital equivalent of banning fidget spinners, Block’s CEO and former Twitter wizard Jack Dorsey decreed slide decks dead just two months ago. Employees must now bring living, breathing prototypes to meetings — as if walking in with a pizza instead of just talking about it would suddenly make work fun. This glorious shift means those prototypes, whipped up with either fake or real data, can be tweaked on the fly, because why not double the chaos? Meanwhile, last February, Dorsey cut 40% of his staff—about 4000 people—citing AI efficiency, proving zero-cost mistakes in prototyping also means zero-cost trust in humans. Perplexity’s CEO Aravind Srinivas has been off slide decks since their Series A, preferring memos and live Q&As, while OG slide-hating Jeff Bezos banned PowerPoints in 2004 with a four-page memo punishment. Steve Jobs would be proud, yelling from the past: 'If you know your stuff, you don’t need slides, you just need personality.'
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(1 of 3)Jack Dorsey just killed slide decks by forcing hackers to show real work, aka cosplay 'adulting'—and then fires 40% for efficiency. Relatable corporate reset or just a sophisticated Tinder scam?
Somewhere, a kid hacked PowerPoint and found a way to actually do work instead of spinning slides endlessly.
If your company's answer to boring meetings is live prototypes, does that make your office a tech museum or a science fair?
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 4/3/2026 | Author: Shubhangi Goel
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