Welcome to another bonus episode of the Tech Mem Right Home, another portfolio profile episode.

We're going to talk about another great company that the

Right Home Fund has invested in. We're going to talk about open access today, which you

can find out more about by going to open access.com and we're going to talk to the founder of open

access Alex Damiano Alex thanks for coming on the show. Thanks for having me Brian.

All right Alex let's do super simple right up top.

What is open access? What are you doing?

Awesome, yeah.

Open access is a data storytelling platform.

We want to simplify and democratize the entire data story telling process so anyone you know regardless of their technical ability can tell stories with data so you can easily visualize share and collaborate and in doing, we want to create a sort of community

of data explorers that can crowd source insights

and work collectively with the second order effects

of increasing data transparency,

data literacy, and a lot of fun stuff.

So, super dumb and simple, forgive me,

but essentially you're a tool to help people make graphs, basically explain ideas beyond words, right?

Yeah, absolutely. That's one part of it. So when you break down and do the storytelling, it's actually kind of a long process you have to find the data,

then clean the data, then visualize it or create a chart,

and then perhaps sharing and collaborating.

So we do those three things.

We help you create a chart very easily, right?

It's very simple, simpler than Excel or Tablo

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