How Canva is Making Graphic Design Amazingly Simple for Everyone – with Melanie Perkins [012]
How Canva is Making Graphic Design Amazingly Simple for Everyone
Melanie Perkins is the 27-year-old co-founder and CEO of Canva, an online design platform which makes graphic design amazingly simple for everyone, by bringing together a drag-and-drop design tool with a library of more than a million stock photographs, graphic elements and fonts. Melanie founded Canva in 2012 and to date has raised over $6M in VC funding.
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