After New Year's Day, I look forward to the New Year.
But for some friends, there is still a hurdle in front of them, that is, the year-end summary.
I don't know in what form your summary was handed over, anyway, YOKA Jun's years will fall into deep anxiety every time it comes to this time.
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A PPT (slide) carrying a year's performance, a migrant worker who moved bricks for 365 days, a room of company executives, a speech that combines data reporting, low-key boasting and self-reflection, like the scene of thesis defense.
Not only the cold numbers, but also your usual comments will appear on the report page.
"Don't understand, don't understand, do I think it's ugly?"
"The third line of the second paragraph is wrong with one word, buckle the chicken leg."
It is said that "people rely on clothing, Buddhas rely on gold clothing", and it is a technical job to package the daily life of touching fish into a conscientious model worker. In addition to the neat mouth note, a detailed, beautiful and associative PPT is particularly important for a year's work summary.
Some people even think that the year-end summary of the PPT is not done well, and the year is in vain:
Can't monitor your boss all day long, need to know you from this report;
You are a part-time worker, and you only have this opportunity to shine once a year.
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That's right, even in the second decade of the 21st century, PPT is still playing with humanity.
The use cases for PPT are much broader than its developers initially anticipated. Some people use it to build cars, some people use it to apologize, and now some people use it to seek the way to ring the bell and go public.
SPAC IPO is the most popular method of listing companies in the last two years.
Compared with the traditional listing operation, SPAC first shells and uses a blank to only cash flow company to acquire those companies that are well-known in the circle but have difficulty in listing.
With a bold capital background equipped with a PPT full of wonderful stories, the investment target is successfully listed.
Buzzfeed, familiar to new media people, is a classic example.
As a deep-rooted content for 15 years, after experiencing the initial explosion, the favor of capital and the profit difficulties of the post-content era, the valuation has shrunk, and finally successfully listed with the help of SPAC.
Buzzfeed itself is a PPT with beautiful past performance.
Even this PPT has not yet given a result on how to return investors.
The PPT roadshow explains the company's future profit expectations, gives investors confidence, and is also a magic weapon to raise the value of the company before it goes public.
Here we have to mention billy Bean, the protagonist of "penalty shoot-out".
The $575 million he raised through a short-term listing is already looking for a stake in Liverpool.
Billy Bean has used big data analytics to open up new avenues for competitive sports to buy athletes, and his own experience is a convincing "PPT".
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A data perfect, can see the growth of the PPT, so that the online educational institution coursera before the listing of the highly affirmed.
And YOKA Jun feels that the most ruthless use of PPT in recent years is her:
She showed people how to use PPT to drop blood into gold, and at the same time spilled a pool of "bad blood".
Elizabeth Holmes was born in 1984 to a wealthy family in Washington, D.C.
Holmes began to show off her intelligence in high school—she was so interested in computer programming that she sold her own C++ translator to a Chinese university, which was her first business.
In 2002, at the age of 18, Holmes enrolled in chemical engineering at Stanford University, and a year later developed a patent for a "wearable drug delivery patch."
In his sophomore year, Holmes dropped out of school and began a formal business. She claims her invention is historic, and just by pricking a few drops of blood through the tip of her finger, she gets a lot of data about the body, including more than 200 indicators of cholesterol and cancer.
She persuaded Robertson, a former associate dean at Stanford's School of Engineering, to support her idea, and Robertson even joined her company Theranos after retirement as the first director.
With Robertson's endorsement, before the machine was invented, as a "genius student" who dropped out of the prestigious Stanford school to start a business, she has been recognized by many venture capitalists.
After all, standing at the forefront of science, the economic benefits will be enormous, and no one will be willing to give up this opportunity.
Besides, this genius girl wore a Jobs-style black sweater and told her PPT with a magnetic "baritone", all of which was too "textured" by technology.
In 2004, at the age of 20, Holmes raised $6 million in investment on the unfinished project; in 2010, that number became $92 million, when she brought in retired former Secretary of State George Schultz to take the stage as a director of her company.
More hot money came in.
Media mogul Murdoch alone invested $150 million in her. By 2014, she claimed that after the machine was developed, Theranos had reached a valuation of $9 billion.
Forbes magazine named her "the world's youngest self-made rich woman."
Less than a year later, Holmes was exposed for falsification.
In 2015, according to the in-depth investigation of journalist John Careyru, her "blood drop cancer test" machine produced quite disordered data, and most of the results were detected by traditional machines and then attributed to the new device.
Once this matter was exposed, everyone was confused, and it turned out that the "super-intelligent artifact" had not yet been developed.
Although Holmes repeatedly denied it, the exposed reporter Carreru was also very rigid, and directly wrote a novel "Bad Blood" to explain this matter to the end.
Beginning in 2016, Holmes' company began to crumble. First, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) banned Theranos from owning, operating, or directing blood testing services for two years.
Then in 2017, Arizona accused Theranos of selling 1.5 million blood tests to local residents, giving false data.
In 2018, the company also spent money according to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) allegations. For example, in 2014, the company claimed revenue of $100 million, while the real profit was $100,000. This account, too much to spend.
On January 4, Holmes was convicted of four counts or sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Watching her rise from a high building, watching her entertain guests, watching her collapse.
This is (perhaps) the most serious one of the PPT rollovers.
Originally, the slides were filled with people's original dreams and desires.
In the past, people sought a good future for their own works that were still in conception through the large-scale blank space and white depiction of words on the PPT page, and with the assistance of favorers, they gradually turned their ideals into reality and brought surprises to the world.
Later, PPT gradually changed its taste.
The quick-witted concoctors were not prepared to cook it into a real delicacy, and the 16:9 interface was filled with uncooked cakes.
It's not that what it carries has changed, it's that those people have lost the execution to make it a reality.
So, PPT does not carry this pot.
So, does the world still need PPT?
Absolutely. It needs to show the world what the future looks like in your vision, and what you will do to turn these into reality.
A PPT from the 50s of the last century
Now many people have gradually weakened their black talk and PPT painting cake on the Internet. And believe that after the formation of the "metacosm", the existing working mode will be changed...
Tech companies tell you that even if you change planets, you still need PPT.
Microsoft expects to launch Mesh for Microsoft Teams by this summer, a platform that connects work partners through mixed reality technology, and plans to allow us to continue to demonstrate PPT in the virtual world.
You see, we beat workers, in the second decade of the 21st century, still can't escape PPT.
Don't go, talk to YOKA Jun about what your year-end summary has written?
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