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)