Melanie Perkins Quotes
15 quotes from Melanie Perkins — Co-founder and CEO of Canva, the graphic design platform valued at $40B+ with 170M+ monthly users..
“Just get started, you'll learn everything.”
“I'm a big believer in just-in-time learning and the power of sheer determination because you can make everything happen with enough perseverance, and believing in yourself and your goal.”
“Having little business experience when I started meant that I didn't know what was impossible, so I viewed everything with fresh eyes.”
“I spend all of my time improving the things that I can change, and I don't spend time worrying about the things that I can't control.”
“With a vision as big as making graphic design accessible to everyone on the internet, we knew we'd need to raise capital to fund Canva.”
“I remember the meeting so vividly; I was trying to pitch Canva with a paper print-out of our slide deck as I didn't have an iPad, and eat lunch at the same time.”
“Because of his support, we were able to make our vision a reality.”
“I thought that in the future it was all going to be online and collaborative and much, much simpler than these really hard tools.”
“When you don't have any connections, you don't have any network, you just kind of have to wedge your foot in the door and wiggle it all the way through.”
“There's always been forks in the road where we could do what every other company is doing, or just do what feels natural. Every time we do what feels natural, it always ends up being the thing that we build on.”
“Most planning is often done by looking at the bricks and trying to stack them. The column B thinking is thinking about what is that magical, wonderful future that you then want to invest years and decades of your life actually building.”
“My mum's living room became my office, and my boyfriend became my business partner, and we started enabling schools to create their yearbooks really, really simply.”
“In order to empower the world to design, we needed to simplify the whole design process and integrate everything into one place.”
“I think she's very capable of running a company that is much larger and more complex than the company she runs.”
“We have a crazy big dream: that by the end of our lifetimes, everyone on this planet will have their basic human needs met. It's terribly sad that this is still considered a crazy big dream.”
