Melanie Perkins
19 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 2, 2024 by Cameron Adams · said 16 times in 3 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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2025 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
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Jun 2, 2024 neutral
Working with Canva's married co-founders requires transparency around after-hours alignment
“It is always tricky working with a couple because They're on it 24 seven. When you leave the office and they head home, they're still talking about product business strategy, all the things. I think they've done a really good job of Evolving those ideas overni…”
Nov 2, 2025
Nov 2, 2025 positive
Nov 2, 2025
Perkins: Canva spent two years without shipping product during codebase rewrite
“We were doing a front-end rewrite, and we thought it would take about six months. It was really important because it was critical for cross-platform, it was critical for right to left, it was Critical because we could only have five people working in our edito…”
Nov 2, 2025
Nov 2, 2025 negative
Nov 2, 2025 negative
Perkins: Most companies' daily execution diverges from their stated mission
“Often people have a mission that's kind of on the wall somewhere, and then what they're actually doing and the way they actually make money And the way that, you know, the way people actually spend their time is in a very, very different direction from that or…”
Nov 2, 2025 positive
Nov 2, 2025
Perkins: Realistic goals lead to giving up when roadblocks hit
“If you start with a Reasonable goal or a realistic goal, then you kind of get to get to when you're like, oh, cool, whatever. Or more importantly, if something happens, you know, all the problems and roadblocks come along as they always do, then you're like, o…”
Nov 2, 2025 positive
Perkins: Canva receives over one million community requests per year
“We get more than a million requests from our community every year, and we then, we've got a whole incredible team that then tallies them breaks them down, And then deliver them to all of our product teams, and then those actually get closed. So this year we've…”
Nov 2, 2025
Nov 2, 2025 positive
Nov 2, 2025 positive
Perkins: AI shouldn't be front-and-center just for investor hype
“Just because AI is all the rage and investors really like AI, doesn't necessarily mean it should be front and center
in, but if it can genuinely help your customers to achieve their goals, so, you know, the thing that I was mentioning before, enabling people…”
Nov 2, 2025
Nov 2, 2025
Perkins: Canva plans by defining wild success and failure over 10-year horizons
“An exercise we often do is like, what is wild success for X or what is wild success for Y? And then equally, what is terrible failure for those things? And you can apply that just to abstract thinking in different industries. You can do that, apply that for we…”
Nov 2, 2025
Nov 2, 2025
Perkins: Transformative building requires working backward from an ideal future
“Most planning is often done by looking at the bricks and trying to stack them. And then you kind of, you know, you can create only so much. And so I guess the column B thinking is thinking about what is that magical, wonderful Future. That you then want to inv…”
Nov 2, 2025
Nov 2, 2025 neutral
Perkins: Canva achieves ambitious goals despite inaccurate delivery timing
“I think with a crazy big goal, the thing we have been really great at is achieving them. The timeframe that we achieve them on has not always been very reliable. We have certainly not been able to have pin dart. What's the, what's it? We have not been very acc…”