An excerpt from Dylan’s talk on how it took five years from the moment they started working on Figma to the first paid customers.
Enjoying learning about how @figma got where they are today
— Michael Aubry ☀️ (@michaelaubry) May 1, 2022
In my quest to learn, I'm going to be sharing everything I am learning from @zoink
It took them 5 years of working on Figma before they got their first customer
Rome wasn't built in a night good things take time pic.twitter.com/ZRGJPusipw
Interesting thread on a path that Dylan Field took from an intern and college dropout to the CEO of the $10B company.
From child actor to web developer to law to politics to data analytics to design to drones to founding the $10 billion giant called Figma: this is the crazy story of Dylan Field👇👇 pic.twitter.com/lUdxgGLOss
— Shreyans Singh (@shreyans512) April 4, 2022
Dylan Field on TechCrunch’s Found podcast.
Dylan Field shared three steps that Figma takes to become a more global company. First, Figma incorporated in Japan, set up an office in Tokyo, and started working on localizing Figma into Japanese. Second, they’re expanding in EMEA by opening offices in Paris and Berlin. And last but not least, Figma finally added support for RTL languages! Great news for designers working with Arabic, Hebrew, and Urdu who relied on 3rd-party plugins in the past. See thread by Lauren Budorick on why implementing RTL support was a huge undertaking.
One of the best profiles of the early days of Figma and Dylan Field’s transformation from intern to CEO.
The latest episode of the Distributed podcast pairs Dylan, Figma’s CEO and Co-founder, and guest host Connie Yang, Head of Payments Design at Stripe, with past design leadership posts at Coinbase and Facebook.
“Why is everyone talking about creators? Jack Conte, co-founder of Patreon, and Dylan Field, co-founder of Figma, discuss the creator phenomenon with Danny Rimer at the Index Creator Summit.”
“In this episode of Uniquely Led, Dylan Field, CEO & co-founder of Figma, shares his journey of going from intern to CEO at the age of 20, discovering the difference between leadership and management, and the importance of being a low-ego leader. He discusses Figma’s culture of growth, which focuses on bringing in amazing people and ensuring they achieve their full potential.”
Thread by Dylan Field, the CEO of Figma, on not just translating physical experiences into digital realms but also making digital experiences even better than physical counterparts.
Today is one of the biggest launches in @figmadesign history. SO PROUD OF THIS TEAM!
— Dylan Field (@zoink) October 19, 2021
ICYMI, we announced widgets / plugins in FigJam, open sessions, code blocks, rich content embeds, some great new partnerships and more: https://t.co/O7Ek2DEj2y
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Today at @figmadesign we shipped a fix for one of my longest standing pet peeves about the product — now you can edit frame names directly on the canvas! Just double click and start typing.
— Dylan Field (@zoink) July 13, 2021
Thank you to Linda Zhang for making this happen! pic.twitter.com/iUqTmvl5dw
Forbes writes about Dylan Field’s NFTs collection and sale of CryptoPunk. See also Dylan’s own statement on the sale.
Figma profile by Index Ventures, with insights from Sho Kuwamoto and Dylan Field.
A new “The Twenty Minute VC” podcast episode with Dylan Field.
One more podcast episode with Dylan, this time in “Founder’s Field Guide”. This one covers the principles that Figma is built upon, the growing importance of design as the world moves from consumption to creation, and what it takes to recruit effectively.
It's Day 1 of our biannual Maker Week @figmadesign! This time we added a meta element and divided the company into four "houses" that are competing against each other in various challenges! First challenge = create a name and crest for your house: pic.twitter.com/unEJMZC7xG
— Dylan Field (@zoink) December 1, 2020