How I Built Resilience: Live with Melanie Perkins and Bill Creelman

Hey everyone, and welcome to How I Built This Resilience Edition. On these episodes, we're talking with entrepreneurs about how to think creatively during this really disruptive moment. And today I'm bringing you two conversations. Later on in the show, we'll hear from Bill Krielman, founder of the sparkling water company Spindrift. about how his industry's been affected in the past few months. But first we're gonna go to Melanie Perkins, the founder of Canva. Canva is an online graphic design platform. And when we featured Melanie and the story of Canva on the show back in January of twenty nineteen, her company was valued at a billion dollars. But just a few days ago. Canva announced that they closed a new round that now values the company. At six billion dollars, Melanie joined me from her home in Sydney, Australia, and she talked about the challenges of managing more than nine hundred employees from home and how the company is sustaining itself during the pandemic.

So first of all, I mean have you Have you guys had to face Layoffs. I know you you had about nine hundred employees last time I checked. Uh have you had to go through that at all? No, we've been in a fortunate position that um we're you know, we're a profitable company. We had you know Strong cash reserves.

Um and Canvas continued to grow rapidly throughout this throughout this time. Um I think that the the challenges of navigating um you know from an on l off offline world where we're all meeting and that's such a big part of our culture online. Um that has been Relatively smooth, I guess, because most of our things were already online. We're already working in an online world.

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