Building a $49B Design Powerhouse: Interview with Canva Co-Founder Cameron Adams

When Cameron Adams co-founded Canva, the popular graphic design platform now best known for its A.I. image generator, with Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht in 2012, they were chasing a vision to make design simple and accessible for everyone. Today, that vision powers a $49 billion company with more than 180 million users. 

Adams, originally from Australia, studied law and science in college and worked in graphic design and tech for a decade before starting Canva. “The design world was...