You would expect the co-founder of a startup that improves on traditional slide presentations to hate tools like PowerPoint. But that’s not the case with Mayuresh Patole, the CEO of Chronicle. He says he loved PowerPoint and before becoming a founder, spent 10 years building presentations, including stints teaching university students how to make engaging ones, and then at his first job at a consultant at BCG. But he found that creating good presentations took hours of work and was especially difficult for people without a visual design background.
Sydney- and San Francisco-based Chronicle was born as a result. Co-founded with Tejas Gawande, the startup’s goal is to make building attention-grabbing presentations as easy as dragging and dropping interactive, pre-designed blocks. The experience is meant to be as simple as arranging widgets on an iPhone, and the founders say decks can be created in just eig...
