I think people are lying to you if they say that they have a roadmap in the first year or even pre-product market fit.

I think it's just so hard to draw a clear line.

I think you can have conviction on the what, but the how is always the part that switches back and forth.

So I think really for us it was a matter of, okay, we knew we were building

a pretty huge tool. It's a beast of a surface area. We knew it was a really competitive space.

We knew that we had to really take our time to build it right and not build it just for us.

We wanted to solve a very pervasive problem for a very large audience, but we knew it would take time.

Hi, I'm Ryan Buick. I'm the co-founder of Canvas.

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Ryan Buick grew up in San Francisco, in the actual city itself.

He went to school in Oregon, but quickly came back to the

area. He's a very proud owner of a COVID dog, i.e. got the dog during COVID, and enjoys biking and

just hanging out. He named the dog Jerry in order to make his dad and his grateful dead-loving family laugh.

Prior to their current venture, Ryan and his co-founders were working at Flexport.

They were so early on in the team that while having to prove ROI on a roadmap, he had to

grow new skills and data analytics just to service his job needs. This got him thinking about

other folks and what sort of tool could support a spreadsheet interface on top of these

data sources. This is the creation story of Canvas. Canvas is a no-code analytics platform. It really looks and

feels like a spreadsheet interface connected to all of your data sources.

We sell primarily to B2B SaaS startups and primarily to undoing air quotes, non-technical users,

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