The Terrible Pitch
Sixty seconds to pitch a deliberately dreadful product to the room, with total conviction and a made-up market size.
Nothing at all
30 min
Anybody in the room
Sitting down
None needed
How to run it
Sixty seconds each, standing up, straight face.
The pitch
- Draw a product. You get thirty seconds to think and sixty to sell.
- Name, market, price, and one made-up number with a decimal point in it.
- One hostile question from the room at the end. Answer it.
Paying out
- The room marks it out of ten, sealed until everybody has gone.
- Marks are for conviction, not for the product. The product is meant to be terrible.
What you need
Nothing. The people in the room and a phone between you.
Before the day
Draw the products from the bank below rather than letting people choose. Chosen ones are always worse.
Add this to your event
Fayla builds the whole weekend around it — a scoreboard everybody can see, a shopping list that writes itself out of the things you picked, and one link for the group chat.
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