Melanie Perkins was nineteen and teaching design software to students in Perth when she decided that design should be simple enough for anyone. This episode follows the yearbook company she and Cliff Obrecht ran from her mother's living room for five years, the kitesurfing lessons she took to get in the water with Silicon Valley investors, the more than one hundred rejections, the Google Maps co founder who became an adviser, and the launch of Canva in 2013.
It also covers the one dollar images, the growth to two hundred million users, the forty billion dollar valuation, the pledge to give most of the founders' shares away, and the company as it is today. Founder Stories tells the story of one founder per episode, told plainly and in order.
