"the power of storytelling": everyone in the room goes around telling compelling stories to each other, but no-one is listening
"elevator pitching 101": the elevator is full of people pitching to other people; no-one wants to take the elevator
MVP: mathematicians find a way to encode NP-complete problems as MVP optimisation ("in an exciting development i learned recently that some theoretical computer scientists worked out how to convert an arbitrary NP-complete problem into a minimisation of a product specification (aka an MVP); so now agile+product teams can solve general 3-SAT instances as part of their bi-weekly sprints!")