The business model slide is the pitch-deck slide explaining how the company makes money, used by investors to model whether the math works at scale. It covers pricing structure, customer types, average revenue per customer, gross margin, key unit economics (CAC, LTV, payback period), and the path from customer to revenue. It is the slide investors mentally model in real time during the pitch, and where founders who haven't done the unit economics work get caught.
The content of a strong business model slide: revenue model (subscription / usage / transactional / advertising / hybrid), pricing tier structure (named tiers with prices and target customer), average contract value or ARPU for consumer products, gross margin (...