The woman behind Canva shares how she built a $42B company from nothing | Melanie Perkins

There's a very famous story about Canva. Early on, you pitched over a hundred investors and over a hundred investors

said no to you. It was really clear in my mind that it was the future and I thought the investors were wrong, frankly. But

investors also gave really helpful feedback and feedback often in the form of rejection. They would say, "Oh, your

market's not big enough." And I would say, "It's going to be huge." And I'd add a new page in my pitch deck that said how big the market I believed was.

And then they'd say, "You're the same as some other company." And I would say, "Hey, now I've got a new slide in my pitch deck that shows all the players