Get Melanie Perkins on Woman-Run
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Co-founder and CEO of @Canva. Working with an incredible team to empower the world to design.
Welcome to Woman-Run The Podcast! Wright Lindsey Jennings started Woman-Run in 2019 to help build community and to share the stories of those who inspire us. Over the years, we’ve highlighted women who start businesses, women who lead businesses and women who help others grow through mentorship and collaboration. We believe that building community through shared experiences helps everyone thrive. A rising tide lifts all boats, and we want to be part of the tide of change.With Woman-Run The Podcast, we want to meet you where you are and provide the resources and motivation that you can tap into when your schedule allows. Let’s cultivate this community together!
Melanie Perkins is steering one of the most watched pre-IPO companies, with Canva’s $42 billion employee share sale in August 2025 and a hot 2026 IPO window making her playbook essential listening right now. Hearing her on Woman-Run today means founders get a front row look at how she is positioning a category-defining company for the public markets and hypergrowth.
In the last few weeks, Canva has doubled down on accessibility by making its professional Affinity suite free and unveiling a “Creative Operating System,” pushing powerful AI tools into the hands of 260 million users and scrappy small teams. That is a seismic change for entrepreneurs who need enterprise-grade design, marketing, and video capabilities without enterprise budgets.
Perkins can speak directly to scaling from tens of millions of paid users to Fortune 500 adoption and to bringing in Zoom’s former CFO to ready Canva’s finances for what comes next. She has not appeared on Woman-Run before, according to the show’s own feed, which makes this a timely first.
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Nomination created on January 15, 2026