Melanie Perkins

Melanie Perkins is an Australian billionaire technology entrepreneur, who is the CEO and co-founder of Canva. Perkins is one of the youngest female CEOs of a tech start-up valued over A$1 billion. As of May 2021, Perkins was one of Australia's richest women.

Melanie Perkins was rejected by over 100 VCs. https://twitter.com/ArjunMahadevan/status/1677775875369058304 - Now, she's a tech billionaire, and her $26B startup, Canva, is ready to take on Microsoft and Google. Here are 5 motivational quotes from Melanie for any aspiring or current entrepreneur:

"Solve customer problems and make sure that the customer is representative of a large market and then you will have a pretty good formula."
"Anyone can have a solution but if no one cares about it, unfortunately, you are not going to have a very big company."
“The rejection is often not because of the reasons you think they are rejecting you.”
"Plant lots and lots of seeds and hopefully one will grow!"
“If you are determined and want it, you can just go for it.”