The internship · age 16

beehiiv Pitch Deck

The exact raw, unedited deck a naive high-school kid used to land an internship at a fast-growing tech startup.

I landed an internship at beehiiv at 16 as a sophomore in high school.

Many people have asked me how. The truth? I got lucky.

The good news is that (some) luck is completely under your control. Instead of asking Tyler Denk (the CEO), “How can I help?” or saying, “I’ll work for you for free.” — which puts the burden on him to figure out who I am and how I can help —

I cold emailed and pitched him 3 projects I could lead for them while I was working with them. Doing the work upfront does two things:

  1. 01It shows you want the opportunity (badly).
  2. 02It shows you can do the opportunity.

I used this same “Pitch Deck Strategy” about a year later to land a $150,000 role with Noah Kagan. It works.

Drop your email below and I’ll send you the exact raw and unedited pitch deck I used to successfully land an internship with a fast-growing tech startup at the age of 16 as a naive high-school kid.