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David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:30 Harry Stebbings Because I had the CPO of Canva on the show and he said, oh, we're doing all these amazing things with AI.
Eoghan McCabe, CEO @Intercom: Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control | E1213 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:37 Harry Stebbings One whereby it continues to cost a lot of money to provide such great high quality AI products, and you do a Canva and increase pricing by 300 X. 2 times in the scene
Jeff Wang: Sequoia Capital's $9BN Global Equities Fund on The Future for NVIDIA, Google & Meta|E1212 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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.