Episode

Inside Canva: Coaches not managers, giving away your Legos, and embracing AI | Cameron Adams

Cameron Adams, co-founder and chief product officer at Canva, discusses how the company scaled to $2.3 billion in ARR while staying profitable and product-obsessed, crediting a coaching-not-managing culture, giving away your Legos, and homegrown leadership. He shares Canva's freemium strategy, its year-long MVP process focused on delighted early users, the SEO and internationalization playbook that drove growth, and how Canva applies AI through in-house models, partnerships, and an app ecosystem.