Canva: Melanie Perkins (2019)

Yeah. Okay, so for today's show, we're gonna run one of our favorite episodes from the archives. It's the story of Melanie Perkins, the founder of the design platform Canva. And right at the top of the show you'll hear me say that the company is valued at a billion. Well Canva is now valued.

At six billion dollars. Okay. Onto the show. Any of the investors saying, you don't have a a tech team, you don't have a a chief technology officer, like I don't know if I'm gonna put my m That was literally what everyone was saying.

Yeah, it it may it makes perfect sense, but how are we gonna get this thing rolling? How many people do you think you pitched over that? I guess two month period in San Francisco. Over a hundred people, more. I was going through my rejections the other day, I was looking at some of the emails and there there was quite a Try to damp you.

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