Fusion Books

3 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 10, 2016 by Melanie Perkins · said 9 times in 2 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Jun 10, 2016
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Fusion Books became Australia's largest yearbook company before expanding internationally
“And it became the largest yearbook company in Australia and launched in France, New Zealand,”
Melanie Perkins Jun 10, 2016 ▶ 2:52 20VC: Start Niche, Move Broader & Become Profitable Quickly with Melanie Perkins, Founder & CEO @ Canva
Jun 10, 2016
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Canva raised its first round pre-product by demoing Perkins' previous bootstrapped startup
“With Canva, we actually, we raised our first round of funding before we actually built a product, and so we used Fusion Books as the demo of like, hey, we can actually build things and market a company and grow, and so that was sort of our proof point that we …”
Melanie Perkins Jun 10, 2016 ▶ 9:38 20VC: Start Niche, Move Broader & Become Profitable Quickly with Melanie Perkins, Founder & CEO @ Canva
Jan 27, 2023
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Obrecht's team manually recreated 100,000 pages in Photoshop after software failed
“So we had to, I think, recreate over a 100,000 pages with like Photoshop and InDesign where we had to hire a team of designers on Upwork yet again. To essentially like eyeball these pages and redesign them in Photoshop and InDesign, and then we had to convert …”
Cliff Obrecht Jan 27, 2023 ▶ 26:20 Canva's Cliff Obrecht: How We Turned Our Yearbook Company to $40B Business | 20VC #971 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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