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Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 1:32 Harry Stebbings We had Cliff on the show before.
Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:02 Harry Stebbings I love Cliff. 3 times in the scene
Insights from Coatue's Growth Investor Lucas Swisher · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:24 Harry Stebbings I adore Cliff and Mel, and I think they're amazing, but you said about, like, the platform companies, and you included Canva. 5 times in the scene
Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:02 Jason Lemkin Maybe he'll wait to IPO like that.
Anthropic's Super Bowl Ad: Who Won & Lost? | Sierra Hits $150M ARR: Is Customer Support Too Crowded? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:56 Mike Cannon-Brookes But you're probably not setting an example where a lot of other private company CEOs, you had Cliffy on a little while, another good friend of mine actually lives like two blocks down that way. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket |TikTok Deal Closes |The IPO Market:Wealthfront & EquipmentShare · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:54 Jason Lemkin We can't, and even, you know, earlier on this podcast, in essence, even, uh, Canva, which will be one of the great IPOs, even Cliff teased at that. 2 times in the scene
Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:17 Jason Lemkin You remember, I mean, all these weeks ago on this pod, when Cliff from Canva came on, he said the one advantage to going public is he'd get a better valuation, that it was a reverse ARB. 3 times in the scene
Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:46 Jason Lemkin And if you're in the top tier, like Rubrik and Palantir, you get the, the deal that Cliff from Canva wanted.
Michael Burry Shorts NVIDIA and Palantir & Has Defensibility Died in a World of AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:25 Jason Lemkin When Cliff was on the show, like, I accidentally was a little triggering on Gamma. 4 times in the scene
OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:51 Jason Lemkin Which we talked about with Cliff and others.
- ▶ 1:04:53 Jason Lemkin We could see it when we'd had Jeff Lawson on, and Cliff didn't have any of it at Canva.
Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:05 unnamed speaker What about Cliff at Canva, who just said on this show, he's super sensitive to it.
OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:55 Jason Lemkin It feels small compared to Canva when we had Cliff on last week, and it feels very small when we're talking about Databricks just crossing, you know, 50% growth at four billion.
- ▶ 1:25:18 Jason Lemkin Well, Cliff came on last week and he was pretty open about it. 4 times in the scene
BVP Partner, Byron Deeter: The Future of Venture - Why Chanel vs Walmart is BS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:44 Harry Stebbings I said this to Cliff. 3 times in the scene
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:50 Harry Stebbings After last show, Cliff from Canva.
Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Acquired by Meta | Microsoft Layoff 9000 People | OpenAI's Bombshell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:28 Harry Stebbings And, and Cliff,
Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings I was just chatting to Cliff beforehand, and I was like, where do I take this conversation? 6 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. 3 times in the scene
Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:31 Harry Stebbings Dude, I look at that, and I love Cliff and Mal, but I don't know if I would have done it.
- ▶ 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
Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:34 Wesley Chan And Mel and Cliff, the founders of Canva figured out how to pull it off by building something that wasn't just incremental.
- ▶ 11:51 Wesley Chan But the truly visionary founders, Larry and Sergey, Cliff and Mel at Canva, you know, Brian Peterson at Flexport, they have a hundred year plans. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:41 Wesley Chan You're going to have to, you're going to have to ask Cliff and Mel that, but it's a small board with me and Rick Baker and the two founders.
- ▶ 40:21 Wesley Chan But when you find that and you've spot that amazing and amazing fountain, that's going to be the next Larry is Sergey or Cliff or Mel at Canva.
- ▶ 49:51 Harry Stebbings Cliff, actually, um, at, uh, Canva, I mean, we had such a great chat about you, but he asked the question, which was, what are non-obvious learnings for founders to think about navigating hypergrowth? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Felicis' Wesley Chan on The Rise of IoT, Getting Recruited by Larry Page & Creating Google's Biggest Success Disaster
- ▶ 14:51 Wesley Chan You know, I remember talking to Melanie and Cliff, uh, who were the two founders and they just had this vision going today in the world of design with Photoshop, with Adobe InDesign, with Adobe Illustrator, only the people who've spent… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:57 Wesley Chan And that's what, you know, I think that's what Cliff and Melanie at Clamba have done.
- ▶ 29:07 Wesley Chan It took a while to sort of figure out how to structure a deal that, uh, was great for both sides, but we said yes simply because Cliff and Melanie had built something so amazing for the world.
20VC: Start Niche, Move Broader & Become Profitable Quickly with Melanie Perkins, Founder & CEO @ Canva
- ▶ 21:45 Harry Stebbings And, and then your co-founder on Canva is your boyfriend, so, so it talks to me on the pros and cons of founding 6 times in the scene