How to Get Your Foot in the Door With a Great Pitch

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In tack and entertainment, there are tons of great ideas that initially got denied. How to get your foot in the door with a great pitch is how you present it. A venture capitalist sent me a pitch from a start up founder named jessico holton. He wanted to follow up our conversation recently about potentially partnering with adam grant.

Great pitches can seem like genius or magic. But you don’t have to be a great salesperson to give a great pitch. Whether you’re floating an idea at a team meeting, looking for investors for your startup, or applying for your next job, life is full of pitching moments. In this episode, we bust myths about what it takes to drum up excitement–and share insights from Hollywood and Silicon Valley on ways to improve your chances of getting your audience on board. This is an episode of WorkLife with Adam Grant, another podcast in the TED Audio Collective. To hear more episodes on the science of making work not suck, follow WorkLife with Adam Grant wherever you're listening to this. For the full transcript of this episode, visit go.ted.com/WL44.