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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Canva comes up
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