Interactivity Unlocks Live Presentations
Grant Lee, co-founder of Gamma, on rethinking the primitives of presentations
Interactivity turns a presentation from a picture of work into the place where work actually happens. That matters most in hybrid teams, where everyone has their own screen and can click, open, comment on, or explore the underlying material instead of watching one presenter drive a static deck. Gamma built around cards, embeds, and disclosure so a meeting artifact can also serve as a live doc, demo, and follow up resource.
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The product implication is a move away from fixed slides toward flexible blocks. In Gamma, a card can expand, collapse, hold video, voiceover, websites, or an Airtable base, which makes the deck usable for both presenting and self guided reading later.
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This is also a workflow wedge into internal teams first. Product managers and operators often start with a PRD or internal memo, then rebuild the same material into multiple decks for executives, engineers, and customers. A more interactive format lets one source package differently for each audience.
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The competitive split is concrete. Pitch mostly improves slide making with collaboration and polished templates, while Gamma and Tome push toward web native documents that can carry live content and analytics. Gamma has translated that shift into stronger monetization, reaching $50M ARR by April 2025 while Tome had $3.5M ARR in 2024.
The category is heading toward presentations that behave more like lightweight software than exported files. As AI fills in the first draft and web embeds make content live, the winning tools will be the ones that let a team create once, present live, share asynchronously, and keep the same asset useful after the meeting ends.