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Podcast: Billion Dollar Movesâ„¢ with Sarah Chen-Spellings | Global Venture Capital
Episode: CEO Series: Melanie Perkins, Co-founder & CEO of Canva
Description: As of January 2024, Canva’s design platform attracted around 170 million monthly global users from 190 countries. BUT it was not too long ago that now 36-year-old Canva founder Melanie Perkins was rejected by 100 VCs. Just like some of the best companies today, Canva took awhile to get to an inflection point: between the first idea in 2006, to launching 2013, that was a span of 7 good years.Today, Canva is a $26 billion design startup is ready to take on Microsoft and Google and compared to other behemoths; and people have created over 3 billion designs since.This wee...