Making an open source Stripe for time

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

05/05/22 • 86 min

This week Peer Richelsen, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Cal.com, joins the show to talk about building the “Stripe for Time” — with a grand mission to connect a billion people by 2031 through calendar scheduling. Cal has grown from an open-source side project to one of the fastest-growing commercial open source companies. We get into all the details — what it means to be an open source Calendly alternative, how they quantify connecting a Billion people by 2031, where there’s room for innovation in the scheduling space, and why being community first is part of their secret sauce.

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Featuring:

Peer Richelsen – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

Cal.com Series A and v1.5
Cal.com open dashboard
Cal.com is an open startup

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05/05/22 • 86 min

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership - Making an open source Stripe for time

Transcript

Transcript for Founders Talk #88 Adam Stacoviak:

Well, Peer, this is Founder's Talk, thanks for joining me. It's been a pleasure, I guess, seeing your journey. I've been paying attention from the outside, obviously... Here at Changelog, we have an affinity and a love for open source, and I guess you're hanging out in a space called commercial open source. Do you like that term? Is that a term that you aspire to, or what's your take on that term?

Peer Richelsen:

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