Two of tech unicorn Canva's co-founders—who recently acquired billionaire status—are setting aside a huge chunk of their wealth to start a foundation that aims to combat global wealth inequality and the climate crisis, Forbes reported.
Sydney-based Canva doubled in value to U.S. $15 billion during the pandemic as usage of the graphics editing app skyrocketed. This made billionaires out of its chief operating officer Cliff Obrecht and chief executive officer Melanie Perkins, who is incidentally of Filipino descent. The couple, now married, started the company from Perkins' mother's living room in 2010.
Perkins and Obrecht were engaged during a trip to Turkey in 2019 where Obrecht proposed with a U.S. $30 ring. As of writing, each of them own about 15% of Canva, or roughly U.S. $2 billion.
"It's not our vibe to hoard money," Obrecht said. "What motivates us is building a product that people love. And the wealth that produces, we want to give back to the world," he added.
What is Canva?
Canva is the go-to platform for students and workers—whether beginners or not—for free templates of social media cards and presentations. Think of it as a much easier platform for design, or even an ultra-leveled up PowerPoint. It also has a library of free fonts, stock photos, among others, by which it has earned its reputation of democratizing design for a skill and time-deprived studentry and workforce.
Aside from Perkins and Obrecht, Cameron Adams also co-founded Canva as the chief product officer.
Canva's Manila office, its second biggest, was recently named one of the best workplaces in the Philippines.
Sources have told reportr that pre-pandemic, the company has an in-house team of chefs that cooks for employees but since it shifted to a work-from-home setup, that translated to at least, a P5,000 worth of monthly food allowance, on top of above-average benefits they receive.
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