Juan Orbea

Venture capital has delivered great historical returns but is illiquid and hard to access. Fortunately, innovation does not occur only at venture-backed startups. 

"I'm a big believer that the only real driver of human progress and economic growth over the long term is the societal structure that enables scientific progress, and then scientific progress itself."

In September 2022, Canva announced the launch of their Visual worksuite. In their announcement, Canva described the product as "[elevating] Canva from the graphic design tool you know and love into an end-to-end visual communication platform that every person, organization, team, or school can use to unlock their creativity and achieve their... See more

Sam states that, for him, AGI is basically the equivalent of a median human that you could hire as a coworker.

Canva is growing more than 100% year-over-year and will exceed $1 billion in revenue in 2022. Most of the revenue is recurring subscription revenue. Even more notably, Canva generated positive cash flows at least from 2017 to 2022 and has likely remained very cash-efficient.

Polymath is the Greek word for a Renaissance person like Leonardo Da Vinci or Ben Franklin who excels in many disciplines. 

So Chris tried his hand at chipping away at this problem — but concluded the nature of the problem wasn’t quite what he originally thought. In this conversation we talk about that, as well as: