E158: Open Source Diagramming and Charting with Mermaid Chart

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Andrew Firestone is CEO and Knut Sveidqvist is CTO of Mermaid Chart, the open source text-based diagraming software platform.

The mermaid project has over 70K stars on GitHub and is an open source diagramming and charting tool.

Mermaid Chart has raised $7.5M from investors including Open Core Ventures.

In this episode, we dig into the mermaid project's 8 year journey, going from side project to company, working with GitLab founder Sid Sijbrandij to bring Andrew in as CEO & more!

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E158: Open Source Diagramming and Charting with Mermaid Chart

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Andrew Firestone is CEO and Knut Sveidqvist is CTO of Mermaid Chart, the open source text-based diagraming software platform.

The mermaid project has over 70K stars on GitHub and is an open source diagramming and charting tool.

Mermaid Chart has raised $7.5M from investors including Open Core Ventures.

In this episode, we dig into the mermaid project's 8 year journey, going from side project to company, working with GitLab founder Sid Sijbrandij to bring Andrew in as CEO & more!

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