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Adams: Canva ignored early investor pressure to follow Lean Startup playbook
“The Lean Startup book actually launched in the year that we launched, it was like, 2012, and investors were quoting it at us, and like, telling us to launch as quickly as possible. We kind of ignored them because we knew what we wanted in the product, and we k…”
Cameron AdamsJul 19, 2024▶ 5:48Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
PredictionNot checkable as stated
Cameron Adams: AI innovation speed will slow down within five years
“In five years time, I would say that AI innovation will have slowed by then, and a lot more will be standardized. Social patterns will be established of like how we interact with AI. The possibilities of what LLM can do are very well understood and known, and …”
Cameron AdamsJul 19, 2024▶ 17:24Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Adams: Prompt-only AI interfaces in five years would show product failure
“But if in five years time, the way that we interact with AI is purely just through prompts, I think it will have displayed a total lack of imagination from us as product builders.”
Cameron AdamsJul 19, 2024▶ 19:38Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
PredictionOpen · timeframe Jul 2029
Adams: Paid AI add-ons will commoditize into standard tiers
“I think in the short term, it might allow them to make more money. So, like, I think Microsoft and Google both have add-on packages that you pay for to get access to their AI stuff. I think that's a very short-term thing where it'll just become commoditized, p…”
Cameron AdamsJul 19, 2024▶ 22:21Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Adams: Canva operates in a different category than Adobe
“We really consider ourselves to be in a totally different category. Like, literally. When we started, design was something that one percent of the world could do, and we wanted to bring it to the other 99%.”
Cameron AdamsJul 19, 2024▶ 37:02Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
Adams: Iteration without a strong initial vision cannot build a lasting company
“That notion that you can kind of iterate towards a product or even a company or a business model, if you don't have a strong vision to start out with, your heart won't be in it.”
Cameron AdamsJul 19, 2024▶ 41:36Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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