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‘If you don’t like it, get a job at a bank’: Canva boss

‘If you don’t like it, get a job at a bank’: Canva boss

The design software giant’s all-singing, all-dancing debut event in Los Angeles came with a host of new features – and rumblings of a cost to its tired staff.

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In a luxury suite overlooking the 70,240-seat football stadium that is home to the Los Angeles Rams, some not-so-quiet lobbying is happening. A crew from the New York Stock Exchange, replete with a telegenic presenter, are interviewing the luminaries of Canva.

The kite-surfing, cowboy hat-wearing investor Bill Tai, who was crucial to its seed capital raising, is there. So is Blackbird Ventures co-founder Rick Baker, the adult supervision who backed the company repeatedly, making his fund’s reputation and fortune.

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Nick BonyhadyTechnology writerNick Bonyhady is a technology writer for the Australian Financial Review, based in Sydney. He is a former technology editor, industrial relations and politics reporter at the Sydney Morning Herald and Age. Connect with Nick on Twitter. Email Nick at nick.bonyhady@afr.com

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