Cameron Adams says Canva has about a quarter of a billion monthly users.
“We now have quarter of a billion people that use Canva every single month.”
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Cameron Adams says more than 500 designs are created in Canva every second.
“We've got over 500 designs created in Canva every single second”
Cameron Adams says Canva released what it calls the world's first foundational design model the previous year.
“the Canva design model, which is, uh, actually the world's first foundational design model that we released last year.”
Cameron Adams describes Canva's workforce as about 6,000 people, working as small teams rather than one large ship.
“It's not think of about 6,000 people and and moving them all like the Titanic.”
Canva held an internal event called AI Discovery Week about a month before the interview.
“And, uh, something we did a month ago called AI Discovery Week really speaks to that.”
Cameron Adams says almost half of the AI Discovery Week projects are now in production, internally or for customers.
“I think almost half of them are now pretty much in production, in production internally, or in production actually gone to our customers.”
Cameron Adams says Canva's legal team built a trademark-checking tool that saved 1,500 hours of work.
“Uh, and they've now rolled out a tool which has literally saved them 1,500 hours of work.”
Cameron Adams says Canva does not require employees to use any specific AI tool such as Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini.
“So we're not mandating Claude or ChatGPT or Gemini or whatever tool you wanna use in your part of the company.”
Cameron Adams says Canva ships new features to its own staff first, every day, before customers.
“Cause every great software company, every great AI company, is shipping to themselves first”
Cameron Adams says an internal Canva phrase holds that the company is only ever 1% of the way to its goals.
“it's actually a phrase we have inside Canva that we're we're only ever 1% of the way there.”
Cameron Adams says he does not believe one single place will handle all of the world's work.
“I think this notion that there's gonna be one place that the entire world goes to to do all of their work, uh, I don't think is gonna be be a reality.”
Cameron Adams says Canva must serve people of all languages, incomes and devices as it grows toward a billion users.
“not just the rich few, not just a few people who can speak English, but literally everyone in the world who speaks different languages”
Cameron Adams says everything AI produces in Canva is editable like a normal Canva design.
“Uh, so every part of AI in Canva is editable.”