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The more I learn about Melanie Perkins, the more impressed I become.

Yes, she’s the co-founder & CEO of Canva, a company valued somewhere around $26 billion, with more than 100 million monthly users, and nearly 15 billion designs created on the platform, which, by the way, does about a billion dollars a year in revenue.

And yes, she’s a multi-billionaire at only 35 years old with ambitions of building one of the world’s most valuable companies, which I’m confident she’ll do.

And sure, the legendary venture capitalist Mary Meeker described Melanie as, “a rare breed of entrepreneur, the likes of which you don’t find often anywhere.”

But that’s not the whole story.

Melanie is also incredibly motivated to make the biggest positive impact in the world and her story of perseverance is way more relatable than many we see.

Sure, she dropped out of college like another billionaire founder I wrote about, but she wasn’t some genius coder or business prodigy when she did.

In fact, she knew nothing about business when she started and had absolutely no connections to investors, but she’s gone on to create a behemoth in the industry, building the vision she had since she was only 19 years old.

How did she do it?

That, my friend, is what we’re covering today.

Let’s get to it.

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