Juan Orbea

Melanie Perkins (CEO), Clifford Obrecht (COO), and Cameron Adams (CPO) founded Canva in 2012 in Perth, Australia. As a design instructor at the University of Western Australia in 2006, Melanie didn’t understand why design software required an entire semester to learn. She wanted anyone in the world to create beautiful designs, not just a few who... See more

Observing our own lives, and watching as 100s of founders move through their own journeys, we would go even further in the belief that it’s network forces that influence the majority of how our lives turn out. And 90% of those network forces are established in just 7 crossroads or pivotal life events.

In April 2022, Canva reported 85 million monthly active users across 190 countries, having added 25 million users in ~7 months. Around that same time Canva had 5 million Pro customers. 85% of the world’s 500 largest companies are using Canva (though many could be on free accounts). More than 500,000 teams are paying for the product. Notable... See more

Erich Neumann was one of C. G. Jung's most creative students and a renowned practitioner of analytical psychology in his own right. In this influential book, Neumann shows how the stages begin and end with the symbol of the Uroboros, the tail-eating serpent. The intermediate stages are projected in the universal myths of the World Creation, Great... See more

In this policy paper, authors Austin Vernon and Eli Dourado explore what life would be like with endless energy. Coining the term “energy superabundance,” they look at energy policy, not in the usual sense of trying to restrict energy consumption, but as a way to promote energy abundance—a future in which energy is so clean and plentiful, limiting... See more

Software Price-Performance Has Also Improved at an Exponential Rate

The way we see it is that in venture right now you have 2 choices — super size or super focus. W e largely sat out fundings of NFTs or other areas where we didn’t feel like we were the expert or where the valuation metrics weren’t in line with our funding goals.