Video · 2026-08-13 · 1h 30m · 6 moments

Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab

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Claim◆

Canva's growth slowdown from 30% to 20% reveals an existential threat: AI-native tools and ChatGPT are replacing standalone creative software, and agents don't even consider using Canva anymore.

Canva disclosed its growth will slow from 30% to 20% as AI serving costs explode, but the deeper concern is that ChatGPT and AI agents are making standalone design tools obsolete—Jason admits he and his partner churned from both Canva and Notion because agents simply don't need them.

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Jason: Our agents never even suggest these products. That's the danger. And it's not just agents. It could, you know, we talk about AO and GO. What does Claudia and chat GBT say? But it's worse than that. As we become a Gentic, our agents, we can't choose everything ourselves... the agent never it never occurred to the agent to use Canva for this. It never it never once occurred to it.

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The era of no-code tools is ending because AI absorbs their functionality—Notion is a no-code database disguised as a word processor, Canva is a no-code design tool, and ChatGPT makes them redundant.

Amjad from Replit declared 'the era of no code is over'—tools like Airtable, Notion, and Canva that let non-engineers build things are being superseded when the same functionality lives inside ChatGPT.

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Rory: Amjad said about air tableable not about canva but he said to his quote on the seal of replet's quote for air tableable was no criticism but the era of no code is over and no code was a bunch of tools where without developers or AI we could build stuff and air table was a noode uh uh database disguised as a spreadsheet right it was wonderful product before AI notion is a noode uh database um disguised as a word processor and Canva was a no code way to design stuff.

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Jeff Dean left Google because his passion for scientific discovery is deprioritized against the corporate imperative to build competitive coding and chat models—the CEO needs someone willing to grind on products that affect the stock price, not someone chasing Nobel Prizes.

Google's compute allocation prioritizes cloud margins (selling to Anthropic) and competitive frontier models, while scientific moonshots get residual capacity—Dean and Hassabis wanted to focus on science, but the CEO needs someone focused on competing with ChatGPT on coding.

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Rory: If you're a senior executive in those companies, you're probably expected to do your day job... 80% of the time you're meant to, you know, deal with boring shit right? So, I think at some level there's a desire to focus full-time on that... I actually in a perfect world a year I mean this is hardly what they got rid of two years ago. In a perfect world if everyone had been self-actualized they'd have put someone like the guy who's running it a a tactical executive in charge of grinding out this and maybe given these guys more running room.

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Revolut's proposed $50 billion CEO package is primarily about control rather than money—founders increasingly demand supermajority ownership to justify the pain of being public, and this is becoming the norm for generational companies.

The proposed package would give Nick Storonsky up to 40% of Revolut at a $500B valuation—the speakers debate whether this 16% participation rate is justified, concluding that founder control is essential when going public is so painful that founders would rather stay private.

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Rory: I think it's about control. And I think that Elon was very clear on this, I need to control these companies or I'm walking is what he said when the first one failed, right. So if Nick owns 40% of Revolute, he controls like especially with I'm sure a super majority board and all that. It's his company. That's what he wants... giving founders more control over their life's work, which is what it is, is an acceptable price to pay to incentive to go public.

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Any venture investment not run by a founder will be a zero in the AI age—professional CEOs without founder DNA cannot navigate the disruption, making founder control packages worth the dilution.

Jason argues every non-founder-led company in his portfolio will become a zero, because only founders have the conviction and technical understanding to pivot through platform shifts—and this justifies extreme founder compensation packages.

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Jason: Any investment I've made that is not run by a founder is a zero. It's going to be a zero in this age. It's going to be a zero. I look across. Now you we have different portfolios, but the ones I have that are not run by founders, whether they're at 20 million or 200 million, they're all going to be zeros. And so if the price of me not having a zero is getting Nick to 40% in my be I wish I was a shareholder.

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Companies that prove they're growing will survive the AI transition; Atlassian's stock jumped 50% after nailing its quarter, while those that can't demonstrate growth remain trapped at 2-3x revenue multiples.

Atlassian posted its biggest jump since 2015 after delivering strong results, proving that execution and growth resolve existential concerns—but companies stuck at low multiples without growth trajectory face permanent discount.

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Rory: The only way you prove that you're not dying is by growing. To Jason's point, right? The thing that's pleasing about life is if you pull off the important thing, the hard thing itself, then the markets will follow... if you get it back on track in the with the fundamentals the stock will follow right but if you don't and some of the others that you mentioned didn't then you know you're stuck in two and 3x land forever more.

Highlight slides

Canva's Existential Threat: AI Replaces Standalone Design✦ from: Canva's growth slowdown from 30% to 20% reveals an existential threat: AI-native tools and ChatGPT are replacing standalone creative software, and agents don't even consider using Canva anymore.Growth Slowdown & Rising AI Costs✦ from: Canva's growth slowdown from 30% to 20% reveals an existential threat: AI-native tools and ChatGPT are replacing standalone creative software, and agents don't even consider using Canva anymore.The Agent Problem✦ from: Canva's growth slowdown from 30% to 20% reveals an existential threat: AI-native tools and ChatGPT are replacing standalone creative software, and agents don't even consider using Canva anymore.The Scientist's Dilemma at Google✦ from: Jeff Dean left Google because his passion for scientific discovery is deprioritized against the corporate imperative to build competitive coding and chat models—the CEO needs someone willing to grind on products that affect the stock price, not someone chasing Nobel Prizes.Corporate Priorities vs. Scientific Ambition✦ from: Jeff Dean left Google because his passion for scientific discovery is deprioritized against the corporate imperative to build competitive coding and chat models—the CEO needs someone willing to grind on products that affect the stock price, not someone chasing Nobel Prizes.

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