User:AnaDaks/Melanie Perkins

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= Melanie Perkins =

Melanie Perkins is the founder of Fusion Yearbook, Australia's largest yearbook publisher. She is also the founder and CEO of Canva, a graphic-design tool website.

Education
Melanie Perkins started a BA in Arts and Commerce at the University of Western Australia. During that time, she gave graphic design workshops. The students struggled learning the basics, which gave her a business idea : making a design software platform that was easy to use. She didn't finish her degree due to the success of her first company, Fusion Yearbook. She later pursued the Innovation Excellence Program at the same university.

Career
Melanie Perkins started her first design software company, Fusion Yearbooks, when she was 19 years old. In three years, her company sold in over 80 schools. Realizing the same model would be used for many more things than yearbooks, she pitched a new idea to investors in 2012 : Canva. Canva is a graphic-design tool website. It uses a drag-and-drop format and provides access to over a million photographs, graphics, and fonts. In 2013, Canva was funded 3 million dollars and was officially launched. In 2017, the company was valued at $US1 billion. In 2018, Perkins has reached 300 employees, and aims to double her staff in the following year.