Melanie Perkins

“It seemed completely silly that you'd take there so many instruction manuals and so many steps through the most basic of things. Students would take a whole semester just learning where the buttons were, not learn how to design something. It seemed very apparent that this whole desktop-based thing would be completely a...”

— From Canva: Melanie Perkins (2019), DeepSignal Studios (July 01, 2026)

“We'd say, um there is this huge gap in the market because to cannibalize to actually create this huge industry, the future publishing, you would have to completely cannibalize your industry. And if you look at the areas of publishing over the years, we started off with metal plates and then we moved into the typesettin...”

— From Canva: Melanie Perkins (2019), DeepSignal Studios (July 01, 2026)

“We're moving from a design platform with AI tools to an AI platform with design tools. So when we launched Canva for the very first time, we really one of the huge innovations that we had was moving from pixels where everything was very granular and required deep expertise to be able to move anything around to be able...”

— From Melanie Perkins Canva's CEO on its big pivot to AI enterprise software | Decoder, Decoder with Nilay Patel and The Verge (April 20, 2026)

“For the first million users we're giving everyone an AI pass which we're really excited about. So it's a $100 monthly pass we're going to be giving everyone in that first million so they can just go completely wild and test out all these new products.”

— From Melanie Perkins Canva's CEO on its big pivot to AI enterprise software | Decoder, Decoder with Nilay Patel and The Verge (April 20, 2026)

“We grew by 100% over the last year, 95% of Fortune 500 companies and getting really deep footprints with thousands of people at companies now, which is extraordinary to see. We think that this with Canva AI 2.0 you know, it will radically change that. It will be a huge step change again and becoming the system at the c...”

— From Melanie Perkins Canva's CEO on its big pivot to AI enterprise software | Decoder, Decoder with Nilay Patel and The Verge (April 20, 2026)

“Investing in our own models has been a really core part of our strategy and we were able to bring the cost down, the latency down. Um, so that's been a and and the price has been driven down radically. Like if you look at the price of an of LLM queries, it's grown down 50 times in the last three years.”

— From Melanie Perkins Canva's CEO on its big pivot to AI enterprise software | Decoder, Decoder with Nilay Patel and The Verge (April 20, 2026)

“Affinity is is free and will be. It's it's a critical thing. Um, you know, we knew that that was a really critical part of why Affinity was created in the first place is being able to make it more accessible. And then a key part of Canva has always been having our free product.”

— From Melanie Perkins Canva's CEO on its big pivot to AI enterprise software | Decoder, Decoder with Nilay Patel and The Verge (April 20, 2026)

“Canva AI is now a true creative partner, bringing everything into one place so you can bring your imagination to life like never before. And it's built on the platform you already know and love. So now you can collaborate with your team wherever you're working in the visual suite.”

— From Introducing Canva AI 2.0 | Canva Create 2026, Canva (April 17, 2026)

“Canva AI can automatically apply your brand to anything you create. So, every design is on brand by default. Just pick a brand template and Canva AI instantly generates on brand from the very first draft so every team across your business can move fast and stay aligned no matter what they're creating.”

— From Introducing Canva AI 2.0 | Canva Create 2026, Canva (April 17, 2026)

“For years, Canva has partnered with creators all around the world to build a library of more than 150 million photos, illustrations, and templates. Today, we are bringing the full power of Canva AI to this incredible library. That means your next design can start with inspiration from our marketplace, then come to life...”

— From Introducing Canva AI 2.0 | Canva Create 2026, Canva (April 17, 2026)

“From the very beginning, our mission has been to empower the world to design. And today, more than a quarter of a billion people create with Canva. Individuals, small businesses, classrooms, nonprofits, and thousands of enterprises across 190 countries.”

— From Welcome, world! | Canva Create 2026, Canva (April 17, 2026)

“We have always believed that productivity and creativity shouldn't live in separate tools, that the magic is in the middle. So, for the past decade, we've been bringing them together into one place.”

— From Welcome, world! | Canva Create 2026, Canva (April 17, 2026)

“And thanks to all of you awesome people, we've become the third most used AI product in the world, which is ultimately unbelievable.”

— From Welcome, world! | Canva Create 2026, Canva (April 17, 2026)

“In October last year, we committed $100 million to support people living in extreme poverty in Malawi. Those payments are rolling out to families as we speak with our partners GiveDirectly. We also make Canva's premium products free for millions of schools, universities, and nonprofits around the world. This has amount...”

— From Canva Create 2026, Canva (April 16, 2026)

“We can choose to uplift people and solve humanity's greatest challenges. We can choose to educate every child, and unlock our true potential. And if millions of people around the world choose to turn their ideas into reality, to brighten someone's day, to strengthen communities, to empower students, to build businesses...”

— From Canva Create 2026, Canva (April 16, 2026)