Guy Kawasaki's 60 Second Start Up Series: The 10 • 20 • 30 Rule of PowerPoint

The topic of this video is the October 2030 rule of PowerPoint or Keynote 10 slides optimal number of slides in PowerPoint or Keynote 10 slides. You'll be lucky to get 10 points across 10 slides. You should be able to give these 10 slides in 20 minutes. Why 20 minutes when the meeting is a set 60 minute meeting? That's because 90% of the world use Windows laptops and they need 40 minutes to make it work with the projector. 3030 stands for 30 points. The ideal font size in a PowerPoint presentation is 30 points. It's because you want big fonts. You want big fonts to force you to just put the bare essence important valuable information on the slide. Not to put a whole bunch of text that you read good. Rule of thumb, if you don't like the 30 number, figure out who the oldest person is in the audience. Divide his or her age by two 60 year old people. Divide by two 30 points. Someday you may be pitching a 16 year old VC. God bless you that day. Use the 8 point font until that day. 10 slides 20 minutes 30 point font.