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Hey everyone, and welcome to how I built this resilience edition.

On these episodes, we're talking with entrepreneurs about how to think creatively during this really disruptive moment.

And today, I'm bringing you two conversations later on in the show.

We'll hear from Bill Creelman, founder of the Sparkling Water Company's Spin Drift, about how his industry has been affected in the past few months.

But first, we're going to go to Melanie Perkins, the founder of Canva.

Canva is an online graphic design platform, and when we featured Melanie and the story of Canva on the show back in January of 2019,

her company was valued at a billion dollars.

But just a few days ago, Canva announced that they closed a new round that now values the company at $6 billion.

Melanie joined me from her home in Sydney, Australia, and she talked about the challenges of managing more than 900 employees from home.

And how the company is sustaining itself during the pandemic.

So first of all, I mean, have you guys had to face layoffs?

I know you had about 900 employees last time I checked.

Have you had to go through that at all?

No, it was been an unfortunate position that we're a profitable company.

We had strong cash reserves, and Canva's continued to grow rapidly throughout this time.

I think that the challenges of navigating from an offline world, they're all meeting, and that's sort of such a big part of our culture online.

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