Andrew Firestone), CEO of Mermaid Chart), joins the show to talk about:
- The venture studio model and building Mermaid Chart out of Open Core Venture Studio.
- Stepping into the CEO role at Mermaid and building an open-sourced approach to the diagramming and creator tools industry.
- Unlocking go-to-market and investing in channels that create accumulating advantages for Mermaid.
- Lessons learned from raising capital and taking 300 meetings in four months for Mermaid Chart (and eventually closing a round with Sequoia, Microsoft and OCV)
