Canva Co-founder Cameron Adams on building the online design tool company, becoming a billionaire with Canva’s recent $8.7billion valuation & the extraordinary challenges growing from 3 to 1,000 employees in less than 8yrs.

Cameron Adams began mucking around with computer games as a kid, in the back room of his dad’s suburban Melbourne computer shop. After uni he parlayed that computer literacy, fuelled by a passion for graphic design, into a job at Google. But his entrepreneurial spirit serendipitously led him to meet 2 young people with a dream - Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht wanted to transform their small school year book production company into a global vision to democratise design online, allowing anyone & everyone to design anything online through the design tools platform - from lost dog flyers, to concert posters, small business brochures, websites, now even corporate online presentations. Cameron Adams shared that vision and the home-grown tech startup Canva was born. With funding from Silicon Valley and Australian venture capital investors, Canva has mushroomed. From just the 3 founders at the start, it now employs over 1,000 employees, across 5 offices around the world, with Cameron as Chief Product Officer. The Sydney-based Canva’s most recent funding round in June 2020, valued the company at over $8 billion, with Cameron Adams a billionaire. In recent years they’ve doubled both revenue and user growth. As Canva approaches it’s 8th anniversary, it celebrates over 30 million active users. How did they do it? Take a listen.

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