CMO Canva, Zach Kitschke: From Employee Number 5 To $40 Billion Valuation

Guest: Zach Kitschke, CMO of Canva In this episode, we cover: What Canva does, and where the idea came from (08:08); Zach’s first impressions of Canva co-founders Mel Perkins and Cliff Obrecht (12:49); Making bets on unproven people in an organization (16:41); Setting “crazy big goals” and readying Canva v1 for launch (21:17); The pre-launch inferiority complex (27:30); An important cold email from the Huffington Post (33:59); Wearing many hats in a startup and building company culture (36:17); Learning on the job and managing a hypergrowth company (45:23); How does Canva’s growth compare to what Zach expected? (51:09); Canva’s unique approach to work-life balance, and Mel and Cliff’s philanthropic “two-step plan” (59:23)