Canva is one of Australia’s most successful and globally recognised startups. In this candid conversation, Cameron will take you behind the scenes of his journey at Canva, share what it takes to build and scale a world-class company, and explain how Canva turns success into meaningful, positive impact.
About Cameron Adams
Cameron Adams is a co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Canva, an online design platform with over 200 million users (and one of the most exciting tech companies in Australia). He leads initiatives focused on product, design, strategy, and culture, to ensure that Canva stays focused on innovation and the future for customers and Canvanauts.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Law/Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne in 2001, Cameron started a design agency that produced work for global clients such as Atlassian, NEC, TEDx and Sydney Festival. When Google came knocking in 2007 he couldn’t resist the call and spent the next four years helping Lars and Jens Rasmussen — co-founders of Google Maps — realise the design vision for their ground-breaking communication tool Google Wave.
In 2011 he founded an ambitious email startup with two other Google alumni before meeting Melanie Perkins & Cliff Obrecht, and deciding to help them build the beginnings of Canva. He now leads the design and product strategy for Canva’s apps, which grew from 1.5 million users to over 7 million users in 2015 alone.
Today, Canva serves over 260 million monthly users across 190 countries, generates $3.5 billion in annual revenue, and carries a valuation of $60 billion.
