Melanie Perkins co-founded Canva in Perth, Australia in 2012 with Cliff Obrecht after being rejected by more than 100 investors — and built it into a $40 billion online design platform used by over 170 million people in 190 countries. Born in Perth in 1987, Perkins had the idea while teaching desktop publishing software and noticed how unnecessarily complex design tools were. Canva's mission — making design accessible to everyone without professional skills — drove its viral growth. Her story is the defining example of a founder who heard "no" from dozens of the world's best investors and then proved them spectacularly wrong.

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Melanie Perkins on Wikipedia

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