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Lessons learned from 300 pitch meetings w/ Andrew Firestone, CEO of Mermaid Chart
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Justin Vandehey
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Season 1
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Episode 110
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)
