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Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 2:03 Rory O'Driscoll Going into this year, they're growing at 30%, and the CEO, Melanie Perkins, disclosed kind of mid-year that they're probably going to be growing 20% by the end of this year.
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
Anthropic's Super Bowl Ad: Who Won & Lost? | Sierra Hits $150M ARR: Is Customer Support Too Crowded? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:07 Mike Cannon-Brookes Poor Cliffy, Mel.
Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:49 Harry Stebbings I was actually going to do it before, but he said, you've got to ask him, how did he come to meet me and Mel, and he said there was a little bit of confusion on your end about why you were there as an advisor or actually a hire. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:28 Cameron Adams Uh, Mel and I and our head of product, Rob, are often, you know, pretty much in all of them.
- ▶ 39:56 Cameron Adams Um, Mel pitched it to us. 2 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
- ▶ 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…
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. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:02 Cliff Obrecht And Mel and I got to the bottom of that list and we'd been rejected by everyone.
- ▶ 10:00 Cliff Obrecht Mel and I are completely, so Mel is my wife and the CEO of Canva. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:23 Cliff Obrecht And like Mel, I think she's the best product person in the world.
- ▶ 27:49 unnamed speaker Like, we have had so many copycats copy Canva, um, over the years, and you get, like, Mel doesn't ever look at competition. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:45 Harry Stebbings I like to see someone, like, deeply rooted in, like, engineering and products, and I know Mel's obviously a product visionary, but it's not, like, technical, um, in the set, in that way.
- ▶ 33:59 Cliff Obrecht And then the other product philosophy is like, sometimes a lot of the time, and this is like Mel's strengths, and I've learned this from her.
- ▶ 40:39 Cliff Obrecht We've always had, like, Mel and I used to be carnies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:47 Harry Stebbings Tell me, my friend, you've mentioned Mel, obviously, many, many times. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:51 Harry Stebbings How do you split that between Mel? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:35 Cliff Obrecht Like, I used to tell Mel when she was pregnant, which she used to hate, I was like, having a baby's got to be easy, like, people have been doing it since the dawn of time, there wouldn't be so many humans on this planet if, like, it…
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. 4 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.
- ▶ 50:07 Wesley Chan You know, the best founders like Cliff and Mel have massive empathy with their employees, especially if you're growing.
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
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings And he's led investments in the likes of Canva, who we had Melanie on the show previously, Cora, and Huddle, of which we had Andy on the show previously too.
20VC: Felicis' Wesley Chan on The Rise of IoT, Getting Recruited by Larry Page & Creating Google's Biggest Success Disaster
- ▶ 14:49 Wesley Chan I remember Melanie was so excited. 3 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: Rob Go @ NextView on WTF Is Seed Investing Today and Why Raising Too Much Money Can Harm Your Startup
- ▶ 0:53 Harry Stebbings And this year's speakers lineup is simply incredible, with the likes of Mike Cannon-Brooks from Atlassian, Melanie Perkins at Canva, just to name a couple.