Thursday
Dec152011
Accelerating the Zoom
Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 12:06AM
Sharing great ideas often means challenging preconceived notions, for example, the notion that a presentation should be a sequence of squares. But why, really? At Prezi, we challenge this 350-year-old format, not because it’s old, but because we have seen how people enjoy exploring spaces, rather than slides. We hear presenters and audiences describe how they are taken on a visual journey, and lean forward to share the experience.
So, at Prezi, we enjoy challenging preconceived notions, and we try to do this on every level in our company-- even with the people we choose as investors. Two years ago, when we closed our Series A, it was TED Conferences’ first investment in a company, and for Sunstone Capital it was their first investment in a Hungarian company.
Today, we are excited to announce Accel Partners has joined Prezi today as a third investor. It’s obvious that these guys know a thing or two about growing businesses, and we feel very proud to have them on board.
I can’t think of a more exciting time to lead Prezi. Computer visualization capabilities continue to grow exponentially, gesture and touch interfaces are becoming mainstream, and the Internet is integrated into our lives in increasingly clever ways. As engineers and designers of an idea sharing tool, we’ve never had so much freedom to shape the future as profoundly as today.
For me Prezi has fundamentally changed the way I work. In the morning I’m often in our San Francisco office co-creating a Prezi with other people across the world, then I head out for another meeting using my iPad to discuss that very Prezi with local colleagues. I am also more likely to strike a conversation and less likely to just sit in meetings based on one-way monologues. These are just our first steps in reinventing idea sharing, but with a new Prezi being created every second, we feel we’re on the right track.
So what’s next? Prezi is spreading globally and there are more and more devices where we think it can be useful. I’d like to make Prezi accessible to anyone with an idea that’s longer then a status update and shorter than a book.
Why zooming? Zooming helps you to explain both the big picture and the small details easily. It allows you to choose freely between the ideas that you'd like to explore. We believe that some of our old metaphors used for illustrating ideas--like slides-- may have long a history, but that this does not mean that they are the best way of developing and explaining ideas. Ideas are best when they break boundaries and let you express a part of yourself. The only limit on your ideas should be your imagination. We should all boldly zoom where no one has zoomed before.
So, at Prezi, we enjoy challenging preconceived notions, and we try to do this on every level in our company-- even with the people we choose as investors. Two years ago, when we closed our Series A, it was TED Conferences’ first investment in a company, and for Sunstone Capital it was their first investment in a Hungarian company.
Today, we are excited to announce Accel Partners has joined Prezi today as a third investor. It’s obvious that these guys know a thing or two about growing businesses, and we feel very proud to have them on board.
I can’t think of a more exciting time to lead Prezi. Computer visualization capabilities continue to grow exponentially, gesture and touch interfaces are becoming mainstream, and the Internet is integrated into our lives in increasingly clever ways. As engineers and designers of an idea sharing tool, we’ve never had so much freedom to shape the future as profoundly as today.
For me Prezi has fundamentally changed the way I work. In the morning I’m often in our San Francisco office co-creating a Prezi with other people across the world, then I head out for another meeting using my iPad to discuss that very Prezi with local colleagues. I am also more likely to strike a conversation and less likely to just sit in meetings based on one-way monologues. These are just our first steps in reinventing idea sharing, but with a new Prezi being created every second, we feel we’re on the right track.
So what’s next? Prezi is spreading globally and there are more and more devices where we think it can be useful. I’d like to make Prezi accessible to anyone with an idea that’s longer then a status update and shorter than a book.
Why zooming? Zooming helps you to explain both the big picture and the small details easily. It allows you to choose freely between the ideas that you'd like to explore. We believe that some of our old metaphors used for illustrating ideas--like slides-- may have long a history, but that this does not mean that they are the best way of developing and explaining ideas. Ideas are best when they break boundaries and let you express a part of yourself. The only limit on your ideas should be your imagination. We should all boldly zoom where no one has zoomed before.
Reader Comments (5)
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anybody of you has an idea how make it look that an object in the prezi rotates not in de screen direction but also 90 degree angle. so two axis instead of on rotation axis. I would like to use this for my 7 step presentation cube template http://prezi.com/9nidxxoj5of4/test/
Yes, Prezi`s great.
I never seen before like Prezi ! when i see all ,then i feel i am in dream ! O!
Sorry i cant find a place to correctly put this so im just going to put it in the first spot i can see ( right here): I think you guys should add the ability to make effects on the fonts and stuff... im thinking about buying for my class but not before you add some things.... oh wait .. is there effects on the paid version?idk yet..