Graphic Design Startup Canva Hits $2.5 Billion Valuation
Business Wars Daily
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4.6 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Today is Tuesday, May 28, and we’re looking at Canva vs. Microsoft.
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| 1:09.0 | These days, practically every entrepreneur, marketer, and even |
| 1:12.4 | office manager needs to be a graphic designer as well. Instagram's wild growth alone has created |
| 1:18.0 | an explosion of demand for visual content and the skills to build it. Our insatiable craving for |
| 1:24.2 | all things visual has been a boon to Melanie Perkins, the Australian co-founder of Canva. |
| 1:29.9 | Canva is a web-based design platform intended to feel intuitive for the average user. |
| 1:35.4 | If you haven't heard of Canva yet, you probably will soon. |
| 1:39.7 | Perkins, 32 years old, started the company from her mother's living room back in 2012, sensing a need in |
| 1:45.9 | the market for an easier, more cohesive way for non-designers to produce things like high school |
| 1:51.3 | yearbooks. Six years later, that homegrown company has more than 15 million users, designing |
| 1:57.1 | everything from logos to social media posts to presentations. |
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