This week, the online design platform Canva closed a new round of funding, bringing the company's valuation to $6 billion. Founder Melanie Perkins is also focused on helping her employees work from home, while supporting more than 30 million users worldwide. Also: Spindrift can't sell its sparkling water in many restaurants that are closed because of COVID-1 ... Show More
Oct 5
10 Years of How I Built This: A Decade of Innovation, Risk and Reinvention
Stories about starting a business are almost always full of drama. They’re about ambition, loss, triumph, catastrophe, resilience. And they’re also full of life lessons – which is why Guy Raz launched How I Built This 10 years ago: He wanted to host a free master class in entrepr ... Show More
1h 10m
Oct 1
Advice Line with Scott Tannen of Boll & Branch and Jamie Siminoff of Ring (2025)
CEO and co-founder of Boll & Branch, Scott Tannen joins Ring founder Jamie Siminoff and Guy on the Advice Line to answer questions from three early-stage entrepreneurs. Plus, Jamie and Guy talk about how creating repeat customers often comes from creating social good. First, we h ... Show More
46m 9s
Nov 2025
The woman behind Canva shares how she built a $42B company from nothing | Melanie Perkins
Melanie Perkins is CEO and co-founder of Canva, currently valued at over $42 billion, generating over $3 billion in annual revenue, with more than 240 million monthly active users and, incredibly, eight consecutive years of profitability. But the journey was far from smooth. Mela ... Show More
1h 6m
Jan 2023
20VC: Canva Co-Founder, Cliff Obrecht on The Journey From 100 VC Rejections to a $40BN Company, Why Good Enough is Not Good Enough, The Secret to Hiring Non-Obvious Talent and Relationships to Money and Why They Are Giving Away Billions
<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Cliff Obrecht is the Co-Founder & COO @ <a href= "https://www.canva.com/">Canva</a>, the free-to-use online graphic design tool that makes it easy for anyone to design anything from presentations to videos and social media. Cliff and Mel have scale ... Show More
50m 47s
Oct 2024
Disrupting the wedding industry, with Zola’s Shan-Lyn Ma
Shan-Lyn Ma, co-founder and co-CEO of Zola, joins host Jeff Berman to share how intrapreneurship prepared her to build a business that’s transformed the wedding industry with online tools. From weathering the Covid pandemic to scaling a better experience for millions of couples, ... Show More
30m 3s
Dec 2023
THIS is what it takes to run a BUSINESS | Podcast With Friends Ep. 6
<p>Today's video is episode 6 of Podcast With Friends! I sit down with Valentina Ferrer, Marvin Douglas, and Dustin Canalin. We discuss the challenges of balancing personal life, family, and business responsibilities, emphasizing the importance of being present and mindful in ... Show More
55m 14s