"It’s not just about scaling from 50 to 100 engineers. It’s not even about scaling to 200. I’m thinking about how we can scale to 1000 people and beyond". This was the mission Cliff Obrecht (Canva co-founder and COO) set for me when I first sat down with him. Read more...

Free meals. Complimentary yoga and gym passes. Flexible working hours. Huge training budgets. Despite the seemingly endless perks of most companies in the tech sector today, it takes more than just fringe benefits to attract and retain the best talent. Read more...

As designers we are constantly being reminded that we need to be inclusive in our processes, that we should be earning a seat at the table, building out our design system, making best friends with engineers, delving into data, sprinting, sketching, prototyping, coding (not coding), testing, researching and writing. Then taking some ‘me’ time for inspiration and side projects too. Phew! Read more...

At its heart, Canva’s mission is to be a truly global company; empowering anyone to design anything and publish anywhere. From our humble beginnings launching from a small office in Sydney Australia, today Canva is available across 190 countries in 100 languages—and we’re only 1% of the way through what we want to accomplish. Read more...

There is little in this world that is achieved through the greatness of one single individual—putting man on the moon was a team effort, building the Burj Khalifa was a team effort, winning the world cup is a team effort. Scaling a successful startup like Canva is no different. Luckily we were able to discover the secret sauce to our success early on—the incredibly passionate and talented team that makes up Canva. Read more...