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Dylan Field

20 statements across 8 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Apr 19, 2019 by Dylan Field · said 115 times in 45 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (38), Jason Lemkin (11), Zach Lloyd (9), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (6), Cliff Weitzman (5), Brian Halligan (5), Miles Grimshaw (4), Linda Lian (4)

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Apr 19, 2019
Assertion Supported
IBM's engineer-to-designer ratio dropped from 72:1 to 8:1 in five years
“For IBM, for example, we saw a shift from 72 engineers to every one designer in 2012. Again, 72 engineers to every one designer. And then in 2017, five years later, they were at eight engineers to every one designer across the company. And on mobile, they were…”
Dylan Field Apr 19, 2019 ▶ 25:50 20VC: Figma Founder Dylan Field on The Biggest Mistakes Young Founders Most Often Make, How To Go Slow To Go Fast With Venture Dollars & How The Design Process Will Fundamentally Change Over The Next 5-10 Years
Apr 19, 2019
Insight
Young founders' biggest mistake is failing to hire senior talent
“I think one of the biggest mistakes is not hiring a senior enough talent. I think that especially younger founders, a lot of times I see them falling into the trap of hiring people that are their age or younger.”
Dylan Field Apr 19, 2019 ▶ 20:41 20VC: Figma Founder Dylan Field on The Biggest Mistakes Young Founders Most Often Make, How To Go Slow To Go Fast With Venture Dollars & How The Design Process Will Fundamentally Change Over The Next 5-10 Years
Apr 19, 2019
Assertion Supported
Dylan Field dropped out of Brown with Thiel Fellowship to start Figma
“Ended up dropping out with the support of the Teal Fellowship to go found Figma.”
Dylan Field Apr 19, 2019 ▶ 4:50 20VC: Figma Founder Dylan Field on The Biggest Mistakes Young Founders Most Often Make, How To Go Slow To Go Fast With Venture Dollars & How The Design Process Will Fundamentally Change Over The Next 5-10 Years
Dec 14, 2020 neutral
Insight
Dylan Field: Cross-platform plugins must perform best on your platform
“That said, a lot of the plugins that we're seeing are across many different tools. And so it's not just enough to make it so that a plugin exists on your platform and people use it. But you also need to make it so that the plugin works best in your platform.”
Dylan Field Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 15:31 20VC: Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces
Dec 14, 2020
Insight
Dylan Field: Scaling companies cannot operate fully synchronously or fully asynchronously
“I think to scale, you can't really be all sync, because then you have challenges around how you communicate and how you make decisions, but you also can't be async, otherwise you lack connection, you lack spontaneity.”
Dylan Field Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 17:43 20VC: Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces
Dec 14, 2020
Insight
Dylan Field: Platform-first strategy takes longer initially but scales faster later
“I think it might take a little bit longer to go platform route, but then you have this sort of opportunity to back into scale it faster.”
Dylan Field Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 12:26 20VC: Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces
Dec 14, 2020
Insight
Dylan Field: Leaders can always find someone better than themselves
“I don't think I'm the best at anything. I think I'm pretty good at some things, but I always believe I can find someone better than me at most of my skills, if not all of them.”
Dylan Field Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 8:37 20VC: Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces
Dec 14, 2020 positive
Prediction Held up
Dylan Field: Figma will permanently support remote work long term
“For Figma, internally, pre-COVID, we were entirely in person, and now we're supporting remote work, of course, just like, you know, everyone else does, but also we're permanently doing that long term.”
Dylan Field Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 17:33 20VC: Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces
Dec 14, 2020
Insight
Dylan Field: Hiring top talent is a long-term relationship game
“One thing that people don't usually realize when they're hiring talent is that it's a very long-term game, and it's based in relationships.”
Dylan Field Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 21:04 20VC: Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces
Dec 14, 2020
Disclosure
Dylan Field's early existential uncertainty led him to micromanage and delegate less
“I think that early on, I wasn't empowering enough, and that was a really hard part for the team. I was at Henry Ports or so, and we hadn't launched the product yet, and everyone was going, gosh, will this ever be a thing? Will anyone ever even care? It was lik…”
Dylan Field Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 6:15 20VC: Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces
Dec 14, 2020
Insight
Dylan Field: Reluctance to delegate means you haven't found the right person
“I think if you think you can do it better, you haven't found the right person yet.”
Dylan Field Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 8:29 20VC: Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces
Dec 14, 2020 positive
Insight
Dylan Field: Angel investing provides energy that feeds back into operating Figma
“Well, I certainly learned from people that I invest in, so probably yes in that way, but I think mostly it's the value it brings to Figma is that it's just very energizing for me. I really like helping people. And helping people as an investor is just a very d…”
Dylan Field Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 24:27 20VC: Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces
Dec 14, 2020 neutral
Insight
Dylan Field: Balance competitive awareness with building unique product value
“I would say that it's important not to be too focused on competition. Otherwise, you're not building what's unique with you. At the same time, you have to listen to your users. And if users are saying, well, your competitor's better, you better make sure that …”
Dylan Field Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 15:52 20VC: Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces
Dec 14, 2020 positive
Insight
Dylan Field: Integrating workflow creates product defensibility
“I think that anytime you're able to introduce more workflow, that is a pretty inherently defensible thing that will help your product.”
Dylan Field Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 15:24 20VC: Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces
Apr 1, 2021
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Lian: Dylan Field of Figma was Common Room's first angel investor
“I think the first angel was Dylan Field at Figma.”
Linda Lian Apr 1, 2021 ▶ 32:32 20VC: How To Deliver Feedback with Compassion and Clarity, WTF Are Values Really and How To Instill Them & Raising $50M+ From Index and Greylock but Remaining in Stealth for 12 Months with Linda Lian, Co-Founder & CEO @ CommonRoom
Jan 14, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Devin Finzer: Figma founder Dylan Field is a close mentor on OpenSea
“Founder of Figma is a really close mentor of mine. I mean, what's great about Dylan is he is able to do so many different things. He's running Figma, but he's also extremely deep in the NFT space, so he's just been, like, very helpful from, like, mentoring us …”
Devin Finzer Jan 14, 2022 ▶ 30:32 20VC: Opensea Founder, Devin Finzer on Scaling GMV from $150M to $3BN in 18 Months, How Brands and Celebrities Will Harness NFTs To Change Their Business, The Impact of NFTs on Gaming & What is in Devin's Metamask Wallet?!
May 16, 2025
Assertion Supported
Yamashita: Dylan Field mapped design Twitter graphs to recruit early users
“One of the first things he did was he took design Twitter, he visualized it as a graph, and then figured out which people designers are following the most, and then went to those designers to get feedback on Figma and get them excited about Figma. And that was…”
Yuhki Yamashita May 16, 2025 ▶ 38:47 20Product: Figma CPO on How Figma Builds Products: What Works, What Does Not | How Figma Does Testing and Product Reviews | The Future of Design, Engineering and Product with Yuhki Yamashita
Aug 7, 2025 neutral
Assertion Open
Halligan: Figma CEO Dylan Field decided IPO pricing, not bankers
“The founders make the decision on what the price is. So Dylan decided at the end of the day.”
Brian Halligan Aug 7, 2025 ▶ 4:57 Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 17, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Stebbings: Warp raised over $70M from Sequoia, GV, and Marc Benioff
“They've raised over seventy million dollars from the likes of Sequoia, GV, Dylan Field, Elad Gill, and even the legend that is Mark Benioff.”
Harry Stebbings Oct 17, 2025 ▶ 0:34 20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
Mar 9, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Clements: Accel is not in Figma, calls company oversold
“We are not a part of Figma, but have a lot of respect for that company. But I know that Dylan is a generational founder, and it's a very important company with an incredible financial profile, and it just feels for a lot of ways, for a lot of reasons, oversold…”
Miles Clements Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 46:58 "Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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