Dream Crazy Big: The Unlikely Story of Canva

Canva creator Melanie Perkins and her partner Cliff Obrecht wrote their own playbook.Here’s the story of what we should all hope the next generation of business will look like: how they did it, why they did it, and why it worked. “I hope this story can inspire others to dream big, set goals, and make them happen.” - Melanie Perkins, Canva CEO and co-founderBorn out of simple frustration with complex design tools, Canva has grown into a wild success, with a massive, devoted user community of more than 200 million people, in 190 countries and using 100 languages.But this isn’t a traditional startup story of guys in a garage following a Silicon Valley playbook.Instead, from their base in Perth, Australia (the most remote big city on earth), and animated by a drive to empower normal people to use design to make their own dreams a reality, Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht created something truly original. While backpacking through India, a teenaged Melanie Perkins decided to devote her lif