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Published · transcript-backedLenny Rachitsky: uncertainty
2 Nov 2025 Lenny's Podcast The woman behind Canva shares how she built a $42B company from nothing | Melanie Perkins
“Just was the mood really, I don't know, sad internally? Two years, that's a long time not to ship anything.”
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- Lenny Rachitsky
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- 2 Nov 2025
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…Totally. Just was the mood really, I don't know, sad internally? Two years, that's a long time not to ship anything. Just what was it like internally during that period? I think it was kind of everything internally. We made it into a bit of a game. We had this game board and I bought these little rubber ducky sort of bath toys and we had, so we all the little components represented as a bath toy on this board and there was all these stages of went launched in product. There was an emergency lane at the end of it was home and hosed. And we did these weekly stand ups where everyone would come in and talk where their bath toy was at and just, we tried to make it fun for the team. So it was partly fun and it was partly distressing as all of our investors were like, "Hey, that thing." So I think it was both things at the same time. It was bonding let's say.…
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