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We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
- ▶ 1:34:06 Jason Lemkin That stuff that we used to torture, we used to fire up Canva and try to create things or even worse, wait four days for someone to do it for you.
Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield
- ▶ 1:18:02 Lenny Rachitsky The, uh, the point you made about just kind of persevering, uh, I just had Melanie Perkins, CEO of Canva in the podcast.
“Dumbest idea I’ve heard” to $100M ARR: Inside the rise of Gamma | Grant Lee (co-founder)
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody
- ▶ 28:59 Lenny Rachitsky Interpret is a customer intelligence platform used by leading CX and product orgs like Canva, Notion, Perplexity, Strava, Hinge, and Linear to leverage the voice of the customer and build best-in-class products. 2 times in the scene
The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
- ▶ 28:00 Lenny Rachitsky This episode is brought to you by Great Question, the all-in-one UX research platform loved by teams at Brex, Canva, Intuit, and more.
How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma
- ▶ 2:38 Lenny Rachitsky Interpret is a customer intelligence platform used by leading CX and product orgs like Canva, Notion, Perplexity, Strava, Hinge, and Linear to leverage the voice of the customer and build best-in-class products. 2 times in the scene
How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI | Eoghan McCabe (founder and CEO)
- ▶ 2:36 Lenny Rachitsky This episode is brought to you by Great Question, the all-in-one UX research platform loved by teams at Brex, Canva, Intuit, and more.
The one question that saves product careers | Matt LeMay
- ▶ 2:35 Lenny Rachitsky Interpret is a customer intelligence platform used by leading CX and product orgs like Canva, Notion, Perplexity, Strava, Hinge, and Linear to leverage the voice of the customer and build best-in-class products. 2 times in the scene
Brian Chesky's secret mentor who scaled Airbnb (after dying 9 times & building a hotel empire)
- ▶ 2:43 Lenny Rachitsky This episode is brought to you by Great Question, the all-in-one UX research platform loved by teams at Brex, Canva, Intuit, and more.
Pricing your AI product: Lessons from 400+ companies and 50 unicorns | Madhavan Ramanujam
- ▶ 2:43 Lenny Rachitsky Interpret is a customer intelligence platform used by leading CX and product orgs like Canva, Notion, Perplexity, Strava, Hinge, and Linear. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:09 Lenny Rachitsky What I'm hearing is if I were Canva, so Canva here, and your model is bottom right. 4 times in the scene
I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson
- ▶ 3:12 Lenny Rachitsky Interpret is a customer intelligence platform used by leading CX and product orgs like Canva, Notion, Perplexity, Strava, Hinge, and Linear to leverage the voice of the customer and build best-in-class products. 2 times in the scene
Mercado Libre: 18k engineers, 30k deploys a day, & their own fleet of planes | Sebastian Barrios
- ▶ 29:36 Lenny Rachitsky And then there's other companies like Canva and Atlassian.
Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code this year | Scott Wu
- ▶ 3:07 Lenny Rachitsky It's trusted by leading product orgs like Canva, Notion, Loom, Linear, Monday.com, and Strava to bring the voice of the customer into the product development process, helping you build best in class products faster. 2 times in the scene
Inside monday.com’s transformation: Radical transparency, impact over output, & the path to $1B ARR
- ▶ 2:35 Lenny Rachitsky It's trusted by leading product orgs like Canva, 2 times in the scene
How a great founder becomes a great CEO | Jonathan Lowenhar (co-founder of Enjoy The Work)
- ▶ 1:26:13 Jonathan Lowenhar Um, this is Canva for video.
Identify your bullseye customer in one day | Michael Margolis (UX Research Partner at GV)
- ▶ 46:07 Lenny Rachitsky It's trusted by leading product orgs like Canva, Notion, Loom, Linear, Monday.com, and Strava to bring the voice of the customer into the product development process, helping you build best in class products faster. 2 times in the scene
How to see like a designer: The hidden power of typography and logos | Jessica Hische
- ▶ 3:28 Lenny Rachitsky The event features a curated list of speakers with direct experience building for the enterprise, including leaders from OpenAI, Vanta, Checker, Dropbox, and Canva.
Becoming more strategic, navigating difficult colleagues, founder mode, more | Anneka Gupta
- ▶ 7:01 Lenny Rachitsky The event features a curated list of speakers with direct experience building for the enterprise, including leaders from OpenAI, Vanta, Checker, Dropbox, and Canva.
Conscious leadership: Unlocking vision, strategy and purpose | JM Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)
- ▶ 6:49 Lenny Rachitsky The event features a curated list of speakers with direct experience building for the enterprise, including leaders from OpenAI, Vanta, Checker, Dropbox, and Canva.
How LinkedIn became interesting: The inside story | Tomer Cohen (CPO at LinkedIn)
- ▶ 57:40 Tomer Cohen Like what, what would, ah, this is from the co-founder of Pixar, Ed Catmull to the CPU of Canva or Spotify, Roblox, but all the way to like a chef, Dan Barber, who's like the number one chef in the U.S. for many years.
Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate)
- ▶ 5:52 Lenny Rachitsky It's used by leading product orgs like Canva, Notion, Loom, Linear, and Descript to accurately integrate the voice of the customer into your product development process, helping you build best-in-class products.
The social radar: Y Combinator’s secret weapon | Jessica Livingston (co-founder of YC, author)
- ▶ 5:33 Lenny Rachitsky It's used by leading product orgs like Canva, Notion, Loom, Linear, and Descript to accurately integrate the voice of the customer into your product development process, helping you build best-in-class products.
Inside Canva: Coaches not managers, giving away your Legos, and embracing AI | Cameron Adams
- ▶ 0:00 Lenny Rachitsky Canva is bigger than Figma and Miro and Webflow combined. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05 Lenny Rachitsky Cameron is the co-founder and chief product officer at Canva, which is a truly incredible business and company. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:24 Lenny Rachitsky And before you answer that, I'm going to share some stats about Canva that I think are going to blow people's minds. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:53 Lenny Rachitsky From the outside, like I described, it feels like Canva has just been this nonstop, up and to the right, all win, all success, just killing it all the time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:16 Lenny Rachitsky I think this is very rare, especially for companies at your stage that become really focused on financials and the business, uh, from kind of the CFO perspective and a lot of founders lose sight of the product. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:03 Lenny Rachitsky I really like this point you made about how you didn't know any better almost, and it reminds me of something else I heard about Canva is it took you guys a long time to hire outside execs. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:56 Lenny Rachitsky As a lens into what is important Canva, when you say that they didn't understand what Canva is, what's something that kind of doesn't click for people a lot of times that forces them to not, to be exited potentially? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:43 Lenny Rachitsky That's kind of part of your culture and the culture at Canva broadly, potentially. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:25 Cameron Adams We have a system we call coaching at Canva where you have a coach and they're constantly working with you to look at your skills, how you can improve each of those individual skills, but also what it is that you're actually doing and when… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:45 Lenny Rachitsky Where do you, where do you find product managers bring the most value to Canva? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:59 Lenny Rachitsky For folks that don't know, they're the other two co-founders of Canva, and they were dating when they were starting Canva. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:37 Lenny Rachitsky I want to go back to the beginning of Canva. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:55 Lenny Rachitsky For that second part, what was it for Canva? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:04 Cameron Adams Um, it was a, it was a simple but powerful product, but there was this thing holding people back from actually using it and understanding what Canva could do for them. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:51 Cameron Adams He's actually been in and out of Canva three or four times now. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:22 Cameron Adams And it has drastically changed Canva's growth trajectory because being in other languages, offering a localized experience, something that people in Brazil or Indonesia or Spain or Poland can authentically feel like they're using a product… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:02 Cameron Adams So when we first went to pitch Canva, it was all about creative design, 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:22 Cameron Adams And through the first couple of years of Canva, we started noticing what people were asking for, what they would be more likely to pay in a subscription for, and that formed the first few features that became what was then called Canva for… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:07 Cameron Adams Like, they were the innovations that came in that really unlocked Canva. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:13 Cameron Adams Um, it's our Canva Create, which is kind of an evolution of the season openness that we used to do.
- ▶ 59:19 Cameron Adams So season openers are no longer just inside Canva now. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:55 Lenny Rachitsky What a business you've built. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:39 Lenny Rachitsky Go check out canva.com.
The surprising truth about what closes deals: Insights from 2.5m sales conversations | Matt Dixon
- ▶ 6:31 Lenny Rachitsky It's used by leading product orgs like Canva, Notion, Loom, Linear, and Descript.
Building high-performing teams | Melissa Tan (Webflow, Dropbox, Canva)
- ▶ 0:55 Lenny Rachitsky Then she went on to do full-time advising for companies like Canva, Grammarly, Miro, and Ro, helping them with their growth strategy and helping them build their growth teams. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:35 Melissa Tan I'm actually, uh, transitioning right now and I'm out right now, and I'm gonna go back into advising, which is something I was doing a lot of before Webflow working, you know, having been fortunate enough to work with great companies like…
- ▶ 28:11 Melissa Tan So, uh, I got to work with Typeform in Barcelona and then someone at Typeform introduced me to Canva. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:31 Melissa Tan So early at Canva, it was owned by finance and that's because finance had a view on everything happening in the business.
Leveraging growth advisors, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta)
- ▶ 0:59 Lenny Rachitsky He's also been a growth advisor to companies like Twitter, Pinterest, Patreon, Thumbtack, and Canva.
- ▶ 18:10 Lenny Rachitsky You've been a growth advisor for a long time to some of the most amazing companies out there, Twitter, Pinterest, Patreon, Canva, Thumbtack.
- ▶ 35:15 Lenny Rachitsky Canva comes up a lot.
How to achieve hypergrowth in your business and career | Carilu Dietrich (Atlassian)
- ▶ 50:37 Lenny Rachitsky It also reminds me, I was just talking to, I think it was Canva, where their first engineering hire is now their CTO still, and their first marketing hire is their CMO still.
Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Reddit, Grubhub)
- ▶ 0:59 Lenny Rachitsky He's a legend in the growth and product community, having worked with or advised companies like Pinterest, Reddit, Canva, Airbnb, Tinder, Thumbtack, Grubhub, and many more,
How Notion leveraged community to build a $10B business | Camille Ricketts
- ▶ 21:02 Camille Ricketts So Notion really benefited from being a creative product, but the same is true of Figma or Canva.
Build better products with continuous product discovery | Teresa Torres
- ▶ 4:04 Lenny Rachitsky Organizations the world over like Atlassian, Canva, Datadog, GitLab, Nielsen, Normangroove, Sketch, Deloitte, all use Dovetail
How to grow a subscription business | Yuriy Timen (Grammarly, Canva, Airtable)
- ▶ 0:41 Lenny Rachitsky Yuri Timmin is a full-time advisor to companies looking to figure out their growth strategy, and he's worked with companies like Canva, Airtable, Otter, Whimsical, HIMSS, Flow Health, and a dozen others.
- ▶ 5:24 Yuriy Timen But some of the ones that I've been really, that I've really lucked out with in terms of, I mean, in terms of getting aligned with, you know, companies like Canva, uh, Airtable, hims and hers in the personal care space.
- ▶ 10:41 Yuriy Timen If you were able to nail your unit economics and you have really strong consumer LTVs, think Grammarly, think Canva. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:50 Yuriy Timen Like for instance, like Canva did that with templates.
- ▶ 27:33 Yuriy Timen Grammarly, Canva, to name two that I know personally, a couple of others, or many others probably, they're going to be winners because all of a sudden, if previously they were competing
- ▶ 39:39 Yuriy Timen You know, with Canva, it was the SEO angle, right?
- ▶ 49:23 Yuriy Timen A la Grammarly, a la Canva, Whimsical, NVIDIA, things like that. 4 times in the scene
How to sell your ideas and rise within your company | Casey Winters, Eventbrite
- ▶ 0:13 Lenny Rachitsky Pinterest, Airbnb, Tinder, Reddit, Canva, Hipcamp, Fair, Eventbrite.
- ▶ 6:07 Casey Winters And then I just independently started working as a full-time advisor with companies like, you know, Eventbrite, Tinder, Thumbtack, Canva.