On boarding is CNN Tech's weekly, offbeat look at the world of business and technology. This week we meet rawn white, a man who has been training for 30 years to improve his memory. He once held the record for memorizing a random ized deck of cards in one minute 27 seconds. We'll also hear from doctor lecetia hallman, known to all as doctor key,. She recalls the night she launched the village market, a wildly popular pop up market place in atlanta.
Onboarding isn't just about employees. The often overlooked step-by-step process — to join a product or company — lays the foundation for everything that follows. No one knows this better than Melanie Perkins, co-founder and CEO of Canva. From the moment she started the Australia-based graphic design platform, she knew she had to engage newcomers with simplicity and speed. It took a series of steps: onboard users to her product, one-by-one; onboard investors to help her build; onboard employees in a way that would pass along her values and her vision. Then onboard new investors, new features, new partners, new markets with the same care and ease-of-use — but at scale. With more than 40 million monthly active users and 3 billion designs created, Canva is proof for the magic of onboarding. Cameos: Ron White (Memory Expert).
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