Canva Achieves 2nd Richest place in Australia

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She started her first business at the age of 14.

As of now, she is the 2nd richest woman in Australia.

She is Melanie Perkins, CEO and Co-Founder of Canva, an online graphic designing tool.

Today, Canva is a $15B giant with 55M users in 190 countries and $500M in revenue.

Still, her story is lesser-known than Canva’s flourishing tale.

She displayed entrepreneurial spirit at 14 by opening her first business and sold handmade scarves in markets around Perth.

She got the idea for Canva at the age of 19 while teaching a design course.

She realized the need to make designing easier.

She teamed up with Cliff Obrecht and started working on Canva.

Every investor they went to turned their proposal down.

But Melanie was tougher than the situation.

Even though it had a slow start, Canva shot to 50k users by the end of the first month.

After hearing “no” from 100s of investors, the company got its first funding for $3M in 2013.

And there’s no turning back after that.

They even launched Canva Enterprise and Canva Video Editor.

She is indeed a real inspiration for so many young women around the world to follow their dreams. 🙏