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Melanie Perkins: Daily Routine

Journaling, Slack, global vision — Canva’s Melanie Perkins keeps her days structured and her sights set on world domination.

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Hao Nguyen
May 08, 2025
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Running a $6 billion startup can be a grueling task, but for Melanie Perkins, co-founder & CEO of graphic design platform Canva, it seems to come naturally to her.

The 31-year old Australian startup founder was been waking up for 4.30am competitive ice skating training sessions between the ages of nine to 15. “It was really good grounding for discipline and practice and trying something over and over again. Falling down and getting back up again,” she said in a 2018 Vogue profile.

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