The founder of Canva wears the same black dress most days. It means it's one less decision the woman behind a $1 billion company has to make
Perkins is one of the few women in the world to co-found and run a major technology company but she doesn't like to draw attention to her gender.
"I didn't really have the habit of explaining what we had accomplished and what we had achieved which made it really hard to raise a round of funding when you are saying why investors should invest," she says."I felt like it was cultural, I think Australians have a habit of not over hyping themselves whereas in the United States it is more common to do so, it’s a skill we had to learn.
He says an initial public offering "could be on the horizon" in the next five years and if Canva listed it would likely be on the Nasdaq, following in Atlassian's footsteps, rather than in Australia. Perkins says the offers came from "big, large tech companies, I am sure you can imagine" but Canva is not interested.
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