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I haven't touched Google Slides since Q1

The article discusses how the author has not used Google Slides since the first quarter of the year, suggesting a shift away from the tool for presentations or related work.

Background

SproutMarkup is a design & marketing agency founded by former Googler Jason Flick, known for building presentations that rely on custom-coded, interactive slide decks rather than traditional tools like Google Slides or PowerPoint. This article argues that the overhead of standard slides decks — clunky formatting, version chaos, broken embeds, slow load times — makes them unfit for high-stakes sales, fundraising, or board meetings. The author claims that switching to a "code-native" approach (HTML/CSS/JS slides, often paired with a headless CMS or static-site generator) yields faster iteration, better design control, and more polished client-facing decks. The piece is essentially a pitch for a service category SproutMarkup fills: bespoke, developer-built presentations that look nothing like a template.

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