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Aidan Gomez: What No One Understands About Foundation Models | E1191 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:20 Harry Stebbings Something that I worry about is, and I use Canva as an example of this, which is like, are we going to see companies be able to make more revenue per user from adding AI to their products? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:48 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, on enterprises, Canva is obviously making a hard push for enterprise.
Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:29 Harry Stebbings I think Canva's is incredible. 4 times in the scene
David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:42 Harry Stebbings My question is, when you look at, say, at Canva, it's a great example, they've integrated a lot of AI features into their core products, and whenever you use those features, they are paying to OpenAI, to Anthropic, to you name whatever… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:33 Harry Stebbings And you have Canva offering it, and Adobe offering it, and Sketch offering it, and 10 others.
Jason Lemkin: Crowdstrike, WTF Happens From Here? Wiz Rejects Google’s $23BN Acquisition Offer|E1181 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:19 Jason Lemkin No, Adobe should not, should be blocked from buying Canva arguably. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:28 Jason Lemkin This Uber, this really interesting one of the Canva's at two and a half billion, and the, and Databricks at two and a half billion, and wherever Stripe is, how, them optimizing the IPO path is super interesting because they all could have… 3 times in the scene
Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:16 Cameron Adams Launching something at Canva that people will spread, that they will tell others about has been the biggest growth driver for us.
- ▶ 4:30 Cameron Adams So I, you know, Canva, we started in 2012, but my career was going for like 12 years before that, and there's a ton of ideas that I tried with a ton of people that didn't work out because it was the wrong time, or there was actually the…
- ▶ 5:13 Harry Stebbings So I spoke to Mike Hebron also before this, and he spoke about creating the first Canva landing page, and the amount of time that you spent on it, making it, and I'm kind of quoting him, just right, and so much attention to detail. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:42 Cameron Adams And like those details in the Canva product have driven so much user love. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:05 Cameron Adams So there's this kind of eighty-twenty rule that we apply where when you first get into Canva, you should be able to get 80% of the value, but then as you spend more time with it, you unlock the remaining 20%, which makes you an expert,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:47 Cameron Adams Um, so we actually launched, uh, we had a journalist who did some good investigation and said, you launched Canva Enterprise like three years ago. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:47 Cameron Adams Um, so we actually launched, uh, we had a journalist who did some good investigation and said, you launched Canva Enterprise like three years ago. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:05 Cameron Adams It's one of the things we learned at Canva.
- ▶ 21:19 Cameron Adams It's all wrapped up in our Canva Pro, or our Canva Enterprise subscription.
- ▶ 21:19 Cameron Adams It's all wrapped up in our Canva Pro, or our Canva Enterprise subscription.
- ▶ 22:04 Harry Stebbings But, but do you think AI expands the revenue lines of existing great companies like Canva, or do you just think it allows them to have much better products with happier customers?
- ▶ 25:49 Cameron Adams Uh, we always roll out features as a percent, so if something is going out, um, so we launched the Glow Up recently, um, which is a total, um, re, revitalization of Canva's interface.
- ▶ 25:49 Cameron Adams Uh, we always roll out features as a percent, so if something is going out, um, so we launched the Glow Up recently, um, which is a total, um, re, revitalization of Canva's interface. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:31 Cameron Adams So like an improvement to image quality and magic media, you just roll that out, right?
- ▶ 27:53 Cameron Adams Telling anyone about it or explaining what's going on because yeah, people wake up, they log into Canva expecting one thing, and if it's totally different, they freak out. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:27 Cameron Adams So like, it wasn't a natural part of Canva. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:55 Cameron Adams but yeah, most of the time they're done over Zoom or through a camera doc.
- ▶ 33:21 Cameron Adams So for create, we had like weeklies leading up to that where we'd review stuff.
- ▶ 36:03 Cameron Adams So like half of that, we've got 4500 people at Canva now. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:04 Cameron Adams We, we try to be customer zero for, for everything that Canva does.
- ▶ 39:51 Cameron Adams The most recent example is the rap video that we had at Canva Create. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:22 Cameron Adams Through Canva Create about Canva Enterprise and all the SOC II and SKIM features that are involved in it, like really dry stuff, but delivered it in a really interesting way. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:42 Cameron Adams Um, so people love to drill into the founding story of Canva, the early days, what did you do to get like product market fit and get your first customer? 4 times in the scene
Val Scholz: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics & Strategies | E1168 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:29 Val Scholz I mean, you want to, you want to invest in something, for example, if you build search, right, um, let's say Canva, for example, it's really hard to get rid of Canva, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:08 Val Scholz If you look, for example, at Canva, what they've done is they created content.
- ▶ 54:15 Harry Stebbings It's against the 800 pound gorilla that is Canva, which has an 800 pound gorilla, which is Adobe. 3 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:50 Jason Lemkin Canva or broadly B to B to B is selling B to B software to tech that got cratered. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:13 Jason Lemkin Again, if Canva's at 2.4 billion growing 40%, if Samsara's growing over 40% at 1.3 billion in revenue, okay, um,
- ▶ 30:55 Jason Lemkin I think if Adobe bought Canva, that'd be a much bigger issue. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:55 Harry Stebbings And you said, ah, actually Canva is more competitive in that respect. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:36 Jason Lemkin I mean, Canva, Figma, these will be great IPOs. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:59 Jason Lemkin Canva, 40% at 2.3 billion in revenue. 2 times in the scene
Matt Lerner: How to Hire Growth Leaders and Teams and Why in a World of AI | E1159 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:03 Matt Lerner They spent hundreds of millions of dollars on marketing campaigns, building products that, frankly, nobody ever used, and you can do that when you're generating hundreds of millions per year in free cash flow, but startups don't have that…
Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:37 Jason Lemkin Even if, maybe Canvas has better metrics than Squarespace's, but they have to be great, or I'm just gonna churn tomorrow. 2 times in the scene
Sam Blond: Why Startups are Doing Outbound Wrong and How to Fix It | E1139 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:34 Harry Stebbings I would have already done Canva marketing collateral that I'd done in prep for the day ones.
Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:32 Harry Stebbings And then, sorry, final one, and then I will move on from, I'm loving this, but like every scale up is introducing an AI product, whether it's your notions, whether it's your canvas, whether it's your air tables.
David Meyer: Why You Should Hire People Who Aren’t In Product Already | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:32 Harry Stebbings So I'd say like two for me, which is like Notion and Canva, when you look at what they've done in terms of opening up the aperture of templates.
Ed Sim: Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive & Why Pricing Has Never Been Higher | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:07 Harry Stebbings I think honestly, the people best suited to win are actually your canvas styles of the world who actually do have all the data, but
Ely Lerner: Should Startups Hire Advisors & How much should they be paid? | E1075 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:40 Harry Stebbings Like, for me, I think Canva talk is amazing. 2 times in the scene
Matthieu Rouif: The Story of PhotoRoom, Is This YC’s Most Capital Efficient Company? | E1074 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:22 Harry Stebbings You know, we use Canva for certain things, I think thumbnails. 5 times in the scene
Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:05 Harry Stebbings Listen, I had Cliff from Canva on the show, and he spoke about giving away most of his wealth.
Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:25 Harry Stebbings You've invested in the canvas of the world and many other great companies. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:12 Nikhil Basu Trivedi It's more than the, it's, it's, it's, you know, at least one Canva in, uh, in that size fund.
- ▶ 14:06 Nikhil Basu Trivedi It's a team that looks a bit more like a melon cliff at Canva, um, but that has a product
- ▶ 18:41 Harry Stebbings When you think about kind of those early days and actually making the investment decision, I, I thought this one would be about Canva, but I wanted to kind of let the conversation run. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:09 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that is like Canva rode a brilliant wave on
- ▶ 49:02 Harry Stebbings When you think about that, what would you say is your biggest hit other than Canva? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:47 Nikhil Basu Trivedi I've reflected on that a bunch of times because I wish I could have been in both Canva and Figma.
- ▶ 1:07:54 Nikhil Basu Trivedi And so, you know, Mike got to work with a woman named Katrina Lake, the founder at Stitch Fix, from five people to 10,000 people, and from zero revenue to a couple billion in revenue, and we hope that we get to work with a handful of…
Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Brian Balfour: Startup Growth Secrets from HubSpot; Distribution Stratagies; Impact of AI | E1049 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:03 Harry Stebbings I think Canva would be one for me. 4 times in the scene
Sri Batchu: Biggest Growth Lesson from Instacart & Opendoor; 70% of Experiments Should Fail | E1040 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:26 Harry Stebbings I think Canva Talk as well, Aligned, is fantastic.
Lauryn Isford: Product Growth Secrets from Facebook, Airtable, BlueBottle, Dropbox & Notion | E1037 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:53 Lauryn Isford So the thesis that we have here, which is inspired by some of the work that we've seen Canva do as well, um, is that people love to shop. 2 times in the scene
Vince Hankes: Why We Put $300M into OpenAI; Sam Altman's Pitch; Lessons from Josh Kushner | E1009 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:05 Vince Hankes The one that I think stands out the most to me, you know, or at least comes back to me a bunch in my psyche is when I was at Tiger, I flew out to Sydney and spent a bunch of time with the Canva team in person. 7 times in the scene
Meta CMO Alex Schultz: Competing Against TikTok & Snap; Why Reels Failed at First | E985 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:16 Harry Stebbings Uh, I mean, the Canva. 2 times in the scene
Canva's Cliff Obrecht: How We Turned Our Yearbook Company to $40B Business | 20VC #971 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings We see this incredible brand today that is Canva that you and Mel have built. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:00 Cliff Obrecht Mel and I are completely, so Mel is my wife and the CEO of Canva.
- ▶ 15:34 Cliff Obrecht Actually throughout the early years of Canva, because we used to have all these, I call them fancy people with the fancy titles coming from fancy companies, um, interviewing at Canva. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:55 Cliff Obrecht Um, Zach, our CMO joined Canva, uh, as like 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:34 Cliff Obrecht So Canva, to give you an example, Canva until three years ago, we were like a big bodybuilder that had not done a single leg day in their life. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:45 unnamed speaker We couldn't afford it anymore, so we outsourced it through Odesk, which is now Upwork at the time, to a team in India, and there's a lot of amazing development teams in India, but this wasn't one of them, um, and so we had about 400… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:33 Cliff Obrecht He built a lot of the first front ends in Canva, but, um, having him on board, like, we had a couple of, like, early commitments, but getting him on board really tipped the needle in regards to investors, and also allowed us to get on our… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:39 Cliff Obrecht So Canva was created because before Canva, the design ecosystem was incredibly fragmented. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:51 Cliff Obrecht And we've built the entirety of Canva on the one unified platform. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:02 Cliff Obrecht Um, and I guess as the company's grown, I mean, we're all in on Canva. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:51 Cliff Obrecht Yeah, we very much aligned it with the Canva Foundation. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:33 Harry Stebbings What do you know now that you wish you'd known when you started Canamba?
- ▶ 58:08 Harry Stebbings Uh, what do the next five years look like for you and for Canva? 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 1:47 Harry Stebbings Carter, Notion, Patreon, and Canva have made the switch to Trip Actions.
- ▶ 25:21 Harry Stebbings And that's why Fortune 500 companies like Adobe, Unilever, Heineken, and startups like Carter, Notion, Patreon, and Canva have made the switch to Trip Actions.
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- ▶ 1:26 Harry Stebbings Carter, Notion, Patreon, and Canva have made the switch to Trip Actions.
- ▶ 32:31 Harry Stebbings And that's why Fortune 500 companies like Adobe, Unilever, Heineken, and startups like Carter, Notion, Patreon, and Canva have made the switch to Trip Actions.
Michael Mignano: How I Founded Anchor; Why TikTok could be a $2 TRILLION Company | 20VC #923 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:41 Harry Stebbings You've got Canva now coming into a lot of that space. 2 times in the scene
Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:35 Wesley Chan I look at things like Canva, or like Plaid, or Augusto, companies that have done well, but like, you know, were not obvious when I did the investment, and I said, alright, and I look as bad as in the eyes, are you doing this? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:00 Wesley Chan They understand timing, you know, Canada did not start out as what it is today. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:14 Harry Stebbings There's market expansion, which I would put Canva in, which is like, there were designers, there were people who cared, but it massively expanded the town to a lot more people involved and included.
- ▶ 20:04 Wesley Chan You know, one of the nice things about being, uh, having such a, uh, having companies like Canva
- ▶ 22:50 Wesley Chan Like if you're in some company like Canva, right, you'll return 10 X plus the fund easily, but you have to be in a company like Canva. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:58 Harry Stebbings Um, can I ask, we, we've spoken and we've heard a lot about Canva. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:59 Wesley Chan You know, the founders, you know, look, my best company that I've had the privilege of working with is Canva, which is located in Sydney. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:42 Wesley Chan I mean, I don't mind, I don't mind doing an investment and wandering the wilderness, but you know, after, you know, look at Canberra, right after, you know, eight years of doing that deal, everybody looks at it and goes like, oh, I can't… 3 times in the scene
Kieran Flanagan: Hiring Tips for Growth; North Star Metrics; Hubspot's Mistake | 20VC #916 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:53 Kieran Flanagan Yeah, I think web two Canva, uh, web three step stepping. 5 times in the scene
Mire CRO Zhenya Loginov: Hiring Tips for Sales; Why Dropbox Lost Enterprise | 20VC #900 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:06 Zhenya Loginov And I think that companies with exceptionally strong PLG motion, such as Canva or Notion have a great potential to develop new go-to-market and sales models for the future.
Aydin Senkut: How I Scaled from a $4M Angel Fund to $900M AUM | 20VC #890 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:51 Aydin Senkut But what I have seen with all the great companies we had, whether it be like Shopify or Canva or Adyen, it ended up being like 20 to 10 to 20 times bigger than what we expected.
20VC: The Founding of General Catalyst, What it Takes to Build a Firm That Stands the Test of Time, Why VCs Need to Give Founders Greater Permission to Go For It & Why Venture Capital is Like Tennis with David Fialkow, Co-Founder @ General Catalyst
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings So with that, I'm thrilled to welcome David Fialcow, co-founder and managing director at General Catalyst, one of the leading venture firms of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Stripe, Snap, Airbnb, Anduril, Canva,…
Welcome 20Growth: How To Hire a Head of Growth? What are Signs of World-Class Talent? How To Structure the Process? How To Onboard Growth Teams? The Relationship Between Head of Growth and CEO and more with Casey Winters, Chief Product Officer @ Eventbrit
- ▶ 1:09 Harry Stebbings And if that wasn't enough, Casey's also advised the likes of Canva, Hipcamp, Reddit, and Fair, just to name a few.
- ▶ 6:10 Casey Winters I ended up working with, you know, lots of different companies, you know, companies like Canva, Eventbrite, Tinder, Thumbtack, on various different scaling problems.
- ▶ 40:41 Casey Winters Canva is, you know, a company that on the outside looks like more of a consumer subscription company, but it's able to grow like a network because of all the amazing content that's created through the service.
20VC: Why and How The Best Companies Build Economies Around Themselves, When, Why and How To Build Effective Partner/Channel Networks & The Power of Compounding Growth in SaaS with Jay Simons, General Partner @ Bond
- ▶ 0:14 Harry Stebbings They made their mark on the venture landscape, and have since made investments in the likes of Revolut, Canva, Nextdoor, Ironclad, and my personal favourite, On Running.
20VC: The Twilio Memo: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on How a $125K Initial Check Became Bessemer's Largest Position, What The Influx of Late-Stage Capital Means For Venture Today & Why The Incumbent Advantage Is Now An Incumbent Disadvantage
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings To name a few of the investments, Twilio, which we focus on today, Service Titan, HashiCorp, Canva, Intercom, DocuSign, SendGrid, the list goes on.
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- ▶ 11:37 Quentin Clark Gusto, Oscar, Lemonade, Underworld, Applied Intuition, Canva, Grammarly.
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- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings Snapchat, Airbnb, Canva, Kazoo, the list really does go on.
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- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings At the same time, Ash led syndicates and made investments in the likes of Canva, MixMax, and others.