She Got Rejected 100 Times Then Built a $42 Billion Empire | Melanie Perkins #shorts

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]She got rejected [music] 100 times, then built a $42 billion empire. Melanie Perkins was 19 [music] teaching design to students in Perth, Australia, watching them waste hours just to make a simple flyer.

[00:00:12]Everyone said design had to be hard, >> [music] >> that Adobe owned the market, that regular people weren't designers. She didn't listen.

[00:00:20]At 22, she [music] launched a yearbook tool from her mom's living room. Then she aimed bigger. She flew to Silicon Valley [music] to pitch investors on taking down Adobe. They laughed in her face for 3 years, over 100 rejections.

[00:00:34]"You're too young. It'll never work."

[00:00:37]She kept pitching, ambushed investors [music] at conferences, refused to quit.

[00:00:42]In 2013, Canva launched. Within 24 hours, [music] thousands of users.

[00:00:47]Today, over 260 million people use it every month. The company is worth $42 [music] billion.

[00:00:54]She didn't beat Adobe at their game. She changed the game completely. If stories like [music] this fire you up, like and follow. The door that won't open isn't your dead end. It's your detour.