$42B
from 100+ rejections
Melanie Perkins
CEO and co-founder of Canva
Column B Thinking
Stop stacking bricks.
Dream the castle first.
"Most planning is done by looking at the bricks and trying to stack them. You can create only so much."
Melanie Perkins
Monthly active users
~240M
people design with Canva
Profitable for 8 straight years. $3.3B in annual revenue. 100M presentations created every month.
"
Getting really rich is not a goal unto itself. It's a means to an end.
Melanie Perkins, on why she gave 30% of Canva to the Canva Foundation
The PodKnowledge
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