Canva: Melanie Perkins

But weren't any of the investors saying you don't have a a tech team, you don't have a a chief technology officer. Like I'm I don't know if I'm gonna put my That just yeah. That was literally what everyone was saying. Yeah, it m 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. I don't know.

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 quite a damn view. From NPR, it's how I built this. show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements. There you go.

Guy Raz and on today's show How a college student named Melanie Perkins turned her passion for making better yearbooks into the design platform Canva. Now valued at over a billion dollars. So there's a story that I think a lot of people have, and the details might be different, but it's basically a version of this. There was this one time

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