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.

Success Quote

• “Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.” – Seth Godin Click to Tweet
• “You've got start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology” – Steve Jobs Click to Tweet

Book Recommendation

• “Designing the Obvious” by Robert Hoekman

Links & Resources Mentioned

• Canva
• Fusion Yearbooks

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