41: Peer Richelsen, Co-CEO at Cal - Opensource, Selling Previous Startup, Future of Calendar

Peer is Co-founder and Co-CEO at Cal where he is building an open-source scheduling infrastructure. We talk about buying Cal domain name, selling his previous startup to On Deck, benefits of opensource and the future of calendar.

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OUTLINE

(0:32) Buying a 3-letter domain name Cal.com

(5:24) Why Calendly needed to be open-sourced

(7:07) Selling Lean Hire to On Deck

(9:51) Origin story of Lean Hire

(11:50) Favourite On Deck Programs

(13:34) Validating product

(16:09) Key Learnings from previous startups

(20:25) Benefits of Opensource product

(22:40) Development by Cal vs by opensource community

(24:07) When Cal transitioned from side project to real company

(25:45) Finding product-market fit

(27:45) Target Market

(28:41) Top Challenge

(29:43) Future of Cal

(32:01) Advice for first-time founders