The Unsinkable Melanie Perkins: After 100 Rejections, the Canva CEO Faces Her Greatest Threat Yet

In little more than a decade, the expectations placed on 36-year-old Melanie Perkins have gone from negligible to near impossible.

Perkins, CEO and co-founder of Canva, a rapidly-growing graphic design platform and one of tech’s most highly valued private companies, was a complete unknown from Perth, Australia, when she appeared on the Silicon Valley scene in 2013. Today, she’s talked about by investors and colleagues in almost mythic terms. “She has a desire for worldwide domination,” said podcaster and author …

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