Foreign hello and welcome to the Entrepreneurs on Monocle Radio.
The show all about inspiring people, innovative companies and fresh ideas in global business.
On today's program we meet the co founder of Canva,
one of the world's most valuable private software companies that reached a staggering 40 billion dollar valuation by 2021,
less than a decade after.
We wanted to make a product that wasn't just serving 1% of the world.
We wanted to produce a product that unlocked the power of design for everyone in the world.
This is the Entrepreneurs with me, Tom Edwards.
You're listening to the Entrepreneurs.
Cameron Adams is Chief Product Officer and one of the co founders of Canva,
the free online visual communication and collaboration platform with a mission to empower the world to design.
And it's doing just that.
Since launch in 2013,
Canva has grown into a truly global community with more than 225 million people using it every month across almost 200 countries.
I caught up with Cameron to talk about the brand's incredible growth,
its latest innovations in AI powered design and what's next for the business and its 5,000 employees.
Cameron began by telling me how Canva retains its cultural values even as it scales.
Culture is one of the things that we bang a drum on about very often at Canva
because we figured out how important it is.
There was a time where we didn't talk a lot about culture,