Stripe\u2019s John Collison and Canva\u2019s Cliff Obrecht sat down together at Stripe Tour, the US fintech\u2019s event in Sydney on Wednesday, and found plenty of common ground on what AI is doing inside two of the world\u2019s biggest private technology companies.<\/p>\n
They were less aligned on Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n
Obrecht, the Swiftie of the pair, was explaining just how radically Canva had changed the way it builds products when he reached for a line from Look What You Made Me Do. The old Canva, he suggested, couldn\u2019t come to the phone because it was dead.<\/p>\n
Collison looked lost.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs that the Call Me Baby film?\u201d he replied, presumably grasping for the Carly Rae Jepsen song.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, that\u2019s Justin Bieber,\u201d Obrecht replied, erroneously, before giving up.<\/p>\n
The exchange was a comic detour in a conversation that offered an unusually detailed look at what AI is doing inside Canva and Stripe \u2014 not merely to the products they sell, but to how the companies themselves operate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stripe\u2019s John Collison and Canva\u2019s Cliff Obrecht sat down together at Stripe Tour, the US fintech\u2019s event in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[254,64,63,8417,105],"class_list":["post-860772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-canva","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}