How Melanie Perkins Built Canva Without any Coding Experience

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This is the story of how Melanie Perkins and Clifford Obrecht built Canva, the Australian startup that’s currently valued at over $40 billion dollars. Canva is perhaps the easiest graphic design platform to use when creating social media posts, business cards, KZbin thumbnails - you name it. It’s like Photoshop but without the complexity.
The origin story of Canva inspires me because it’s different from other tech startup stories since Melanie Perkins and Clifford Obrecht weren’t programmers, they didn’t have millionaire parents, they didn’t have the connections, and they weren’t based in the US - they both simply saw a need that needed to be filled. Despite not having the connections, capital, and technical expertise, Melanie Perkins and Clifford Obrecht, simply took things one at a time and made things work.
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⏰☀️ TIMESTAMPS
1:30 - Melanie Perkins discovers an opportunity
2:50 - Fusion Yearbooks
3:24 - How they came up with the name Canva
5:00 - Melanie meets Bill Tai
7:25 - Melanie returns to Australia
7:44 - Melanie learns to Kitesurf
8:30 - Melanie and Clifford heads to San Francisco
9:00 - What inspired Melanie Perkins to keep going
9:40 - Cameron Adams
11:00 - The Leak
11:23 - Canva Launches
11:30 - Canva Today
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[@JakeyJunkie]

I work at Canva. Mel and Cliff are generous and also down-to-earth. You did a nice coverage.

[@charr5651]

Thanks for making this video! Canva literally made doing my schoolwork especially ppt much more easier ^^

[@BrandOrigins]

You and me both. Canva saves me so much time. Thanks for watching!!

[@ronthealmightyratking8206]

Canva has helped me go through so much projects lol. -Ron, The Almighty Rat King

[@BrandOrigins]

It's good to know that the Almighty Rat King watched my video 😂

[@pinay_and_languages]

Freaking cool success story! Kudos to thrilling story-telling btw👏 Subscribed.

[@kennethmeru9091]

Thank you to Canva for making my presentation perfect

[@tanmaygupta8481]

I rememnber I started using it 5 years ago during middle school and had no idea it will grow to what it is today at that time.

[@BrandOrigins]

Same here! Their growth was explosive

[@darryl7882]

thank you for the video! love your content always bro!

[@BrandOrigins]

Thank you so much man!

[@orihimekoga]

Canva lang sakalam

[@amanpreetsinghshansarwal794]

love your explation

[@PinoyAccountant]

Just a suggestion bro. Your content is about Melanie Perkins, so please show more of her and not more of your face. Other than that, it's a great content. 👍

[@ykobi]

Canva supremacy!

[@whadadoin1962]

Do brand origins of Sampgyupsal!

[@jollibikeer4946]

101... ❤️

[@BrandOrigins]

Thanks for watching! :)

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