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Melanie Perkins: belief

2 Nov 2025 Lenny's Podcast The woman behind Canva shares how she built a $42B company from nothing | Melanie Perkins

“I think with a crazy big goal, the thing we have been really great at is achieving them.”

— Melanie Perkins

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Melanie Perkins
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belief
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2 Nov 2025
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Lenny's Podcast

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…Okay, so with all that in mind, there's also this kind of trade-off you have to make of just how ambitious you get because oftentimes sometimes maybe you never miss the goal, but many times people miss these very ambitious goals. How do you just find that balance between ambitious crazy but doable enough where people don't get discouraged? I think with a crazy big goal, the thing we have been really great at is achieving them. The timeframe that we achieve them on has not always been very reliable. We have certainly not been able to have pin dart. What's it? Bullseye?…

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