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The Peel with Turner Novak · Startups & Venture · October 2026
Asked what he says when a prospective LP asks for his deck. Zeev says he never states a strategy to investors, in case he changes his mind a month later.
…So only to the extent that they ask me, I answer and then I said, but I can feel differently about it, you know, in next month. You know, I, I, I, I want, and for me, it worked. You know, I'm not necessarily advising it because maybe it wouldn't work for someone else, but for me, it worked. And
Yeah. So I feel like you meet an LP, like step one is like, oh, cool. Let me check out your deck. So what do you say when they say, send me your deck?
I never had a deck. This is my 11th fund, and I never, never, ever in any of the funds had a single slide. And they accepted. Honestly, you'd be surprised. You know what? Not only do they accept it, I feel that they often find it refreshing.
Really? Yeah. But don't they need to look at some stuff to make a decision? The only
thing that I have is a spreadsheet that has all my investments, everything. It's very detailed, very detailed, cost, you know, cost-based dates, which class of shares was bought at what point. Very, very detailed spreadsheet of everything that I've done. And really, that's it. Whatever they do with…
I should ask. Exactly. I don't know what they