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▶ 39:53 · $STRIPE · Canva COO urges Stripe to deepen long-tail payment method coverage in emerging markets
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Canva cofounder and COO Cliff Obrecht in conversation with John Collison

2026-08-25 · 2 company · 18 thematic
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cliff obrecht

Cliff Obrecht co-founded Canva in 2013 with his wife Melanie Perkins and serves as COO. He led Canva from a school yearbook startup in Perth to a global visual communication platform with 200M+ users, navigating the transition to an AI-native product and business model.

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“It's really getting more depth and breadth in the long tail of ways people want to pay and they get quite obscure in in a lot of the long tail particularly emerging markets there's there's payment methods... It's like 100 million users.”
—cliff obrecht
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