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Jenny Shao - Founder & CEO of Robyn AI

The guest on the 24th episode of the AAIM High Podcast is someone who took one of the boldest leaps we’ve seen on this podcast: Jenny Shao. Jenny was on the path to becoming a Harvard-trained doctor, but instead of following the traditional path, she made the courageous decision to leave medicine b…

How Canva leveraged unconventional growth levers to grow to $42B | Cameron Adams (Co-founder & CPO)

Cameron Adams is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Canva, the design platform valued at $42B as of July 2025, used by over 230 million people every month. Before starting Canva, Cameron was a designer and engineer at Google and co-founded Fluent, an email startup. In this episode, Camero…

What Nobody Knows About the Birth of Google Maps ft. Lars Rasmussen (E112)

Lars Rasmussen is a tech angel investor and startup advisor. Lars co-founded Where 2 Tech, which was acquired by Google in 2004, leading to the creation of Google Maps. His journey continued as a Director of Engineering at Facebook, where he led teams in Menlo Park and London. Passionate about inn…

How Google Maps Almost Failed After Launch (And the Fix That Changed Everything) - Lars Rasmussen

Lars Rasmussen went from being a broke founder after the dot-com crash to co-founding Google Maps, one of the most important products on the modern internet. Today, billions of people use Google Maps every day without thinking twice.In this episode, Lars shares: • How Google Maps accidentally went…

China, Canada look to strengthen bilateral ties

China and Canada are looking to strengthen bilateral ties as foreign ministers of the two countries meet in Beijing (03:24). Iran has reopened its airspace after closing it for nearly five hours (14:27). Danish Foreign Minister Lars Rasmussen says fundamental disagreements remain with the U.S. foll…

Why Trump “needs” Greenland

Directly after Donald Trump intervened in Venezuela, capturing president Nicolas Maduro and laying claim to the country’s oil industry, the US President set his sights on Greenland. Trump claims America “needs” Greenland for national security, and has asked his military chiefs to draw up plans to …

Lars Rasmussen: Cofounder of Google Maps and Panathenea

Lars is a leading angel investor and founder based in Athens. In 2004, Lars and his brother Jens sold their mapping startup, Where 2 Tech to Google. Lars became the Head of Google Maps from Where 2’s technology, and was then the Director of Engineering at Facebook in Menlo Park and London. He's n…

Canva: Design For Everyone

# Canva: The Complete Story of How a 19-Year-Old Student Built a $40 Billion Design Empire **Last Updated:** April 4, 2026 **Quick Facts About Canva:** - **Founded:** 2013 (Fusion Books precursor in 2007) - **Founders:** Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht, Cameron Adams - **Headquarters:** Sydney, Au…

How Melanie Perkins TURNED 100 Rejections into a $26B Empire

✎ Get free access to our vault of PDF summaries for every YouTube video here: https://believe.evancarmichael.com/the-vault ✎ Check out my NEWEST video: https://goo.gl/E0eE6m ✎ To get more details on all the research and studies mentioned in this video check out the articles below: https://www.inc…

Lars Rasmussen, Co-Creator of Google Maps | No VC Called Us Back

Lars Rasmussen co-created Google Maps with his brother Jens. He talks with Robert Valentine and Kayvan Nikjou about the mapping startup no investor wanted, the question from Larry Page that changed the product and the three weeks in which the brothers rebuilt it for the browser. The Rasmussens pit…