Melanie Perkins
30 statements across 3 episodes · 9 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 28, 2019 by Melanie Perkins · across every show →
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Jan 28, 2019
Melanie Perkins: No publishing market leader has ever survived an era transition
“And what you'll see, dear investor, is that no industry player has actually ever been able to go from one industry to the next and actually still maintain being the market leader. And so every single time there was a new era, a new market leader emerged.”
Jan 28, 2019
Melanie Perkins recruited Canva's CTO using a deck of his Facebook photos
“What I did was I went To his Facebook page, and I took lots of the photos from his Facebook page, and I put together a pitch deck and said why it would be such an amazing adventure to come and join and recreate the future of publishing and change the face of t…”
Jan 28, 2019
Jan 28, 2019 positive
Jan 28, 2019 bearish
Jan 28, 2019
Perkins pitched over 100 investors during early Canva fundraising
“It was, I don't know, between the, like, the first year and, I don't know, that year period, it would... Over a hundred people, more. I didn't count, but I was going through my rejections the other day, I was looking at some of the emails, and there was quite …”
Jan 28, 2019
Jan 28, 2019
Jan 28, 2019 bullish
Melanie Perkins: All design and publishing tools will converge into one platform
“One of them was that over time, industries would converge. So rather than having the print industry being over here, having to use different software to create a website, and different software to create a presentation, and different software to create marketi…”
Jan 28, 2019 negative
Jan 28, 2019
Jun 27, 2020 positive
Jun 27, 2020 positive
Jun 27, 2020
Jun 27, 2020
Jun 27, 2020 positive
Mar 1, 2021
Perkins says knowing the startup hardships in advance would have been intimidating
“I think one of the wonderful things about this whole experience is that I didn't know a lot going into it, and I think that learning every single day as you go has actually been one of the most critical parts, because I think if I knew all of the lessons that …”
Mar 1, 2021
Mar 1, 2021 negative
Perkins' first three-month San Francisco trip yielded zero tech hires or investors
“By the end of the three months I didn't have a tech team, and I left feeling like the biggest failure. Because I had not landed a tech team, which meant that I hadn't landed investors, which meant that all I'd done, in my view at that point in time, was like, …”
Mar 1, 2021 positive
Mar 1, 2021 positive
Perkins predicted publishing and design tools would converge into one online platform
“One of them was that over time, industries would converge. So rather than having the print industry being over here, having to use different software to create a website, and different software to create a presentation, and different software to create marketi…”
Mar 1, 2021 neutral
Mar 1, 2021 positive
Mar 1, 2021 positive
Mar 1, 2021 negative
Mar 1, 2021
Mar 1, 2021
Perkins recruited Canva's CTO with a pitch deck of his Facebook photos
“What I did was I went To his Facebook page, and I took lots of the photos from his Facebook page, and I put together a pitch deck and said why it would be such an amazing adventure to come and join and recreate the future of publishing and change the face of t…”
Mar 1, 2021 negative
A publication broke Canva's launch embargo with a scathing product review
“An article came out, and they, their article said that we had a not very good product, and that we had cheesy photography, and that it wasn't very easy to use, and I felt at that point in time, like, the last, I don't know, six years of my life was crushed.”
Mar 1, 2021