‘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.
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.
