Melanie Perkins
7 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jun 10, 2016 by Melanie Perkins · said 64 times in 11 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
On the record as a speaker too: Melanie Perkins's record, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.
Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (31), Wesley Chan (13), Cliff Obrecht (9), Cameron Adams (3), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (2), Tom Hulme (1), Rory O'Driscoll (1), Mike Cannon-Brookes (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- Insights from Coatue's Growth Investor Lucas Swisher · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- Anthropic's Super Bowl Ad: Who Won & Lost? | Sierra Hits $150M ARR: Is Customer Support Too Crowded? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 9 mentions in 1 episode
2023 32 mentions in 2 episodes 16 per episode
2022 8 mentions in 1 episode
2016 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Felicis' Wesley Chan on The Rise of IoT, Getting Recruited by Larry Page & Creating Google's Biggest Success Disaster
- 20VC: Why The Best CEO's Are The Best Capital Allocators, How You Can Build A Business In A Space You Are Not Passionate About & When Is The Right Time To Put The Pedal To The Metal with Josh Hannah, General Partner @ Matrix Ventures
- 20VC: Rob Go @ NextView on WTF Is Seed Investing Today and Why Raising Too Much Money Can Harm Your Startup
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about Melanie Perkins, oldest first
Jun 10, 2016
Perkins recruited Canva's tech lead using a personalized pitch deck of his Facebook photos
“Actually, one of the reasons that we're able to end up hiring Dave Herndon was I sent him a visual pitch deck where I'd taken photos from his Facebook and created this story about how if he joined Canva, he'd be full of challenges and adventures, and it was go…”
Jun 10, 2016 neutral
Jun 10, 2016 positive
Jun 29, 2016 bullish
Canva's phenomenal user growth mirrors Google Analytics' mass-market expansion playbook
“And that's what, you know, I think that's what Cliff and Melanie at Clamba have done. It's absolutely amazing. If you look at their user base, if you look at the forums, if you look at their incredible growth, Over the, even the past year has been nothing shor…”
Jan 27, 2023
Canva's Obrecht: Melanie Perkins and I take opposite approaches to building trust
“Mel and I are completely, so Mel is my wife and the CEO of Canva. So my boss which is and definitely the worthy boss. But we have totally opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to trust. So I trust by default and you can lose that trust. Mel, it takes a l…”
Jan 27, 2023
Aug 12, 2026 neutral
Canva lowered its 2026 revenue growth forecast from 30% to 20%
“The facts are that Canva You know, large privately held company in the kind of creative suite space discloses its revenue, even though they're private, and, you know, they were at three billion in gap revenue last year. Going into this year, they're growing at…”