Ep 134: Duncan Clark

Written By Janis Zeps
 

Getting acquired by Canva, journalism-based lessons in effective storytelling & productivity lessons that come with age

Duncan Clark is the Canva Europe Lead and the CEO of Flourish, a leading data storytelling tool that Canva acquired in 2021. Before founding Flourish, Duncan was a data journalist at the Guardian and a commissioning editor at Penguin and Profile. He is the co-author of “The Burning Question, a data-driven take on climate change”

In this episode we talk about:

  • How Flourish was created

  • The acquisition of Flourish by the juggernaut Canva

  • Effective storytelling and communication

  • What makes Canva so successful

  • Data storytelling and AI integration in visualization tools

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