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Title: Canva co-founder Cameron Adams and wife to give away half their $7bn fortune
Post by: Pacesetter on May 19, 2025, 21:41
I know some here are contributors to Canva so may be interested to learn one of its co-founders and wife are giving away $ Billions for environmental causes....

Canva co-founder Cameron Adams and wife Lisa Miller to give away half their $7bn fortune

https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/wealth/canva-cofounder-cameron-adams-and-wife-lisa-miller-to-give-away-half-their-7bn-fortune/news-story/8d2f4679739a59b857acd64d6db6fd99 (https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/wealth/canva-cofounder-cameron-adams-and-wife-lisa-miller-to-give-away-half-their-7bn-fortune/news-story/8d2f4679739a59b857acd64d6db6fd99)
Title: Re: Canva co-founder Cameron Adams and wife to give away half their $7bn fortune
Post by: cobalt on May 20, 2025, 01:30
They could have decided to pay their creators more.

That is mind blowing wealth, how much do you really need?
Title: Re: Canva co-founder Cameron Adams and wife to give away half their $7bn fortune
Post by: kuriouskat on May 20, 2025, 02:25
They could have decided to pay their creators more.

That is mind blowing wealth, how much do you really need?

Wouldn't that have been nice? I've dropped from about $300 a month to around $15 a month over the last few years, but it seems our needs as creators are always the one's that get overlooked.
Title: Re: Canva co-founder Cameron Adams and wife to give away half their $7bn fortune
Post by: stoker2014 on May 20, 2025, 03:25
I know some here are contributors to Canva so may be interested to learn one of its co-founders and wife are giving away $ Billions for environmental causes....

Canva co-founder Cameron Adams and wife Lisa Miller to give away half their $7bn fortune

https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/wealth/canva-cofounder-cameron-adams-and-wife-lisa-miller-to-give-away-half-their-7bn-fortune/news-story/8d2f4679739a59b857acd64d6db6fd99 (https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/wealth/canva-cofounder-cameron-adams-and-wife-lisa-miller-to-give-away-half-their-7bn-fortune/news-story/8d2f4679739a59b857acd64d6db6fd99)
They would be better off spending this money on weapons supplies to Ukraine. There is a shortage of aircraft and medium-range missiles.
Spending it on ecology means giving this money to thieves and charlatans.
Title: Re: Canva co-founder Cameron Adams and wife to give away half their $7bn fortune
Post by: Big Money on May 20, 2025, 07:00
Don't for this owner as well---they need their billions for more yachts and bigger mansions on the ocean

Melanie Perkins is an Australian technology entrepreneur, who is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Canva. She owns 18% of the company. Perkins is one of the youngest female CEOs of a tech start-up valued over A$1 billion. Wikipedia
Born: 1987 (age 38 years), Perth, Australia
Net worth: 5.8 billion USD (2025) Forbes
Spouse: Cliff Obrecht (m. 2021)
Education: The University of Western Australia
Nationality: Australian
Known for: Co-founder and CEO of Canva
Title: Re: Canva co-founder Cameron Adams and wife to give away half their $7bn fortune
Post by: SuperPhoto on May 20, 2025, 07:47
Ugh.

a) The "giving pledge" I think is the WEF/UN/crap (run by the people who did the convid scam). Yeah, bill melinda gates foundation garbage.
b) eyeroll to seeing the 'buzzwords' "sustainability", "inclusive capitalisim" (what), used by some of the other 'plegers'... and lol - read this letter by the canva people, the planet is not "dying" (fyi, planet has been around a lot longer then they have), but funny.

If one has incredible wealth - it is much better to CREATE your OWN organization and direct those funds - instead of giving it to some random strange. Many of the so-called charities/foundations/etc actually do a lot of evil (more accurately, the executives at the top). So instead of 'giving away' your wealth - create your own organization and do something with it. SOOOOOOO very stupid.

And yes, agree with the above post. Pay creators, don't steal from them.
Title: Re: Canva co-founder Cameron Adams and wife to give away half their $7bn fortune
Post by: sgoodwin4813 on May 20, 2025, 20:10
They would be better off spending this money on weapons supplies to Ukraine. There is a shortage of aircraft and medium-range missiles.
Spending it on ecology means giving this money to thieves and charlatans.

Why would they give anything to Ukraine?  Didn't Trump end that war his first day in office as promised?  Plus Trump is such a big supporter of Ukraine I'm sure they have everything they need now.