May 24, 2024

Lessons learned from 300 pitch meetings w/ Andrew Firestone, CEO of Mermaid Chart

You have to assume that this could take up to a thousand meetings to get this done. And if you get to a thousand meetings your business is probably not a right fit for a venture or you're not right fit for being a founder.

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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)
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