Canva was founded by a 19-year-old university student, Melanie Perkins.
By 2018 Canva achieved 294,000 paying customers and $1 Billion valuation.
Here are the first hardest steps for Melanie:
1. She started from a tiny niche – an online design platform for the school yearbook market.
Her customers were schools and they were paying real money.
Within 5 years it became Australia’s largest yearbook publisher, expanding to France and New Zealand.
2. After that, she decided to get back to her initial idea of Canva – to “democratize design”.
For 3 long years, she traveled back and forth from Australia to the US, pitching her idea to various investors.
After 3 years she managed to land her first investment and started creating the first lines of code for Canva.
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