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Step 0 of a presentation is: know your audience.

Doing a sales pitch to C suite person on your hobby horse is likely to get in as much trouble as doing a technical deep dive into the same topic to the same person.

> The implementation details and all their asterisks are provided by your account manager/sales engineer.

That's because the purpose of the presentation is to get you to talk to your account manager.



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