S 01 | Ep 7 Crafting Compelling Stories in Startups and Show Production with Blaine Graboyes Blaine Graboyes has spent his career at the intersection of film , video games , esports , and early stage investing , and this episode draws on all of it . The conversation centers on a few ideas that cut across every industry Blaine has worked in . Storytelling is the most transferable skill from entertainment to startups , particularly at the idea stage when a compelling story is often the only asset a company has . The pitch deck , he argues , is the single most important asset of any early stage business and should be updatable , openable in seconds , and digestible in under five minutes . Blaine also introduces the concept of fewest best , the discipline of stripping everything down until it could not possibly be less , whether that is lines of code , slides , or product features . The most expensive feature , he points out , is the one you did not need . The episode ends on something worth sitting with . The root cause of a problem matters more than the problem itself , and the best solutions are built around those underlying reasons rather than the surface symptoms .