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TechSmith built a business on “Let me show you”
A screenshot can end an email chain. A tutorial can outlive a meeting. TechSmith has spent decades turning those small acts of explanation into software people pay for.
Cliff Obrecht and the Small Kingdom That Learned to Think in Billions
Before Canva reached a quarter of a billion monthly users, Cliff Obrecht helped rule a tiny realm: Australian school yearbooks. The habits that carried him out of Perth - candour, thrift and a taste for the practical - still shape what came next.
The Little Link That Ate the Meeting
Zight spent years making it effortless to send what is on your screen. Its more interesting move was teaching the link to come back with evidence.
Communication Arts sells a second look
A magazine born to keep a printing operation busy became a place where creative work gets noticed. Its enduring product is the judgment between making something and deciding it deserves an audience.
Gra Fika Graphics and the case for a brand that travels
A logo, a brochure, a website: Gra Fika Graphics puts them on the same service menu. The interesting part is what happens between them.
Michael Mehlhorn Turned a Camera-Eye Into a Common Operating Picture
From a 2010 demo reel to emergency maps used across 46 states, Michael Mehlhorn has built a career around one stubborn idea: information matters only when people can actually use it.
Canva Won the Template Era. Now It Wants the Rest of Your Workday
The Australian design platform made drag-and-drop creation ordinary. Its harder second act is to make one canvas useful for every brief, brand and business - without losing the beginners who built it.
Prezi
Prezi is a cloud-based visual communication company best known for inventing the zooming, non-linear presentation - an open-canvas alternative to slide-by-slide decks. Founded in Budapest in 2009 and now dual-headquartered in San Francisco and Budapest, Prezi has grown into a full suite spanning Prezi Present, Prezi Video (presenter-on-screen overlays), Prezi Design/Infograms, and Prezi AI. More than 160 million people have used it to create roughly 400 million presentations.