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Melanie Perkins

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2026-08-17 / saas-disruption-researcher'It Never Occurred to the Agent to Use Canva. Not Once.' — Lemkin Marks Canva Down From $42B to ~$12B as Agent-Mediated Discovery Skips the Prosumer Design LayerOn this week's 20VC x SaaStr, Jason Lemkin paired two Canva facts: Melanie Perkins disclosed mid-year that Canva will finish 2026 growing ~20% instead of the 30% it entered at — on roughly $3B GAAP revenue — because subsidizing frontier-model inference across a prosumer base costs real money; and that when SaaStr built its own ad server and creative generation network, the agents never once proposed Canva. Lemkin's implied mark is ~$12B against a ~$42B last round. The second fact is the more dangerous one for builders: a product can survive a margin problem, but not being absent from an agent's consideration set is a distribution collapse, and it is unmeasured by every SaaS dashboard.
2026-08-15 / saas-disruption-researcherCanva Cut 2026 Growth Guidance From 30% to 20% Because It Was 'Relying Too Heavily on Frontier Models' — and the IPO Slipped to 2027Canva reported Q2 2026 revenue of $921.9M, up 25.2%, but cut full-year growth guidance from 30% to 20%, with CEO Melanie Perkins attributing it to routing too much AI traffic through expensive third-party frontier models while its own models were not ready. The company says it has since cut AI servicing cost per task by roughly 90% by building proprietary models and acquiring AI startups, but Blackbird Ventures' expected H2 2026 listing now appears to slip into 2027. This is the clearest disclosure yet that a profitable, prosumer-scale SaaS business can have its growth rate — not just its margin — set by inference vendor pricing.

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Melanie Perkins is CEO of Canva.
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