Canva's 'biggest shift': AI, design and the future of work

Joining us this week is Cameron Adams, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Canva — the company that has simplified online design and become one of the world’s fastest-growing tech platforms.

What began in 2013 has grown into Australia’s most valuable private tech company, valued at as much as $40 billion and backed by investors including former Disney CEO Bob Iger.

Canva has transformed how people create everything from presentations and social posts to party invitations — taking a once-gatekept industry and making design accessible to more than 265 million people each month. The company has crossed billions of dollars in annual revenue and is now doubling down on AI as it enters its next phase of growth.

In this conversation, we dive into:

00:00: Introduction

01:30: From law school to design and entrepreneurship

07:28: Cameron’s early entrepreneurial instincts

03:10: Choosing passion over a traditional career path

04:17: What Google Wave taught Cameron about product development

07:00: Story of building Fluent and its failure

08:52: The connections that brought Canva’s co-founders together

09:46: Why Cameron initially turned down the opportunity to join Canva