Canva

“And these companies are worth an impressive two hundred and sixty seven billion dollars and include some companies that Bessemer is really proud to work with, such as Procore, Toast, HashiCorp, and Canva.”

“There are private cloud companies that now have line of sight, or in Canva's case and a few others, will be crossing the billion dollar ARR mark while still private.”

“We figured out a lot of the processes and the systems and then you know, tackled the 20 languages and then by 20 17 that goal reached, reached a hundred languages.”

“Presentations is actually our largest use case and our fastest growing and alongside things like video and other content types as well.”

“We continue to this day to have the vast majority of our community using Canva for free”

“We now have more than sixty million people creating with Canva every single month all around the world. We've got a global team as well. So there's sort of 2000 people you know, across Australia, the US, the Philippines, China throughout Europe as well. As you…”

“When we launched Canva you know, the one dollar photo license was something that hadn't been done before, and so, because you're using it within Canva, you know, it means we can kind of control the usage, and so it's a dollar per use.”

“The core premise is that people are actually willing to put up with a lot of Of stuff if there's these really outstanding moments you know, in an experience”

“It was actually you know, a feature we launched, which meant that people for the first time could collaborate in real time on Canva, and it was actually something that our CTO Dave had, had set as a goal you know, eight years earlier, and it had just been this…”

“A large part of our, actually the majority of our growth still comes from, you know, word of mouth and organic, and so that's been a critical lever of growth over the years.”

“More than 80% of our community use Canva in a language other than English.”

“Many of the fortune 500 will have thousands of you know, individual users or small teams on the platform.”

“Canva's at two billion in air are growing over 40% and it's profitable, cash flow positive.”

“Canva just said they're growing over 40% at 2.3 billion in revenue at their user conference the other day.”

“Canva you might think is single product at two and a half billion in AR, but it sure does a lot more than when I started using it.”

“This is the other mistake a lot of folks make that come from a sales background. They don't realize how great a self-serve product has to be like so much better than enterprise, any enterprise or even mid-market product in the world. Like the onboarding doesn'…”

“If you can get thousands of people using your product for 10 K a month or 10 K a year or more, go sell it. If you can get millions of people using your products so that a few percent can convert, go build Canva. But don't be in the middle. Don't be a small num…”

“At the time. Canva was like, Maybe a hundred and seventy million monthly active users. We're at two hundred and thirty million monthly active users now.”

“A lot of us don't pause and actually like unpack the economics of our business models such that we do think about like, what is the real cost of letting a customer Wallow. Versus what is the real cost of providing some level of support?”

“We at Canva try really hard to make sure that when we say monthly active use, it's actually completing a design. So it's not just opening something and starting, it's opening something and finishing, feeling like they've completed it. It's been shared with som…”

“You know, I think we recently shared that we've had like, sixteen billion instances of AI usage, which I think ranks amongst the top AI use cases with some of the tippy top performers in the AI space.”

“And for the record, we did pick Winning by Design. We are using Spiced. We have a little bit of a Canva flair on it.”

“That orchestration actually is better served in the post-sale environment. Like we should be better in the post-sale orchestration of customer experiences than we are in the front side, because most of us, if we're in a SaaS business, we have an install base a…”

“We have a mindset that's like, there are probably great tools in the world. We should start with those tools and implement them in our own workflows, as opposed to try to build them ourselves right now.”

“I think the difference between those that talk about it and those that do it well are the ones who do it well actually start to embed the tracing and tracking of a customer journey from the very first point of awareness all the way through some expression of l…”

“The thing that was really, I think as anybody who's a founder in here, the thing that really mattered a lot was like, don't have two different cultures. Don't build an enterprise culture over here with like all the downsides of what we think of as enterprise c…”

“Many of you might work in organizations where you have a customer success team. That's like the high touch customer success team. And then oftentimes what happens is there's a marketing organization or a product organization that is doing customer touches to y…”

“Now people are going to start paying more for Canva as Canva gets more gentic with two point O.”