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Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- ▶ 8:03 Jason Lemkin They, they, Dylan was clear, our gross margins are going to be significantly impaired going forward because our agentic products are being used.
OpenRouter CEO: Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating the US | Why Enterprises Fear OpenAI & Anthropic
- ▶ 28:36 unnamed speaker I'm like, poor Dylan.
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:58 Jason Lemkin And like, it was such drama to, to Dylan, to Anthropic.
Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:07 Josh Browder Like, Dylan Field was working on a photo sharing app, and then I think some drone ideas.
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:37 Cliff Weitzman Dylan Field is a savage. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:05 Cliff Weitzman So Dylan Field from Figma, uh, Mike Krieger from Instagram, Ev from Twitter, uh, Zillow founders, Audible founders, Grammarly founders, Robinhood founders, Honey founders, 23 me founders, Plaid founders,
- ▶ 1:32:42 Cliff Weitzman Um, and like the Steve Jobs idea of, this is one thing that Brian Chesky and Dylan Field are very right about.
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:07 Jason Lemkin Not only are the decliners stressed, not only are, you know, Dylan and Mike Kendall Brick stressed, they're stressed at, at, at Lovable and Replit and Vercell and Gamma too, because they're, they're, you know, the, the rated competition is…
- ▶ 1:38:21 Jason Lemkin That one I'd be, I'd be pulling if I'm Dylan's better than I me, but I'd be like farts.
Why You Need a $1B Fund To Do Series A | SpaceX at $2TRN & Data Centers in Space | Groq's $20BN Deal · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:52 unnamed speaker I wouldn't care if, if, if Dylan or the team said, listen, we're make isn't good enough, but what, give me time, give me six months. 2 times in the scene
This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:46 Sean Boscanian I, so I joined, I've been here about four and a half years, and I started talking to Dylan five and a half years ago, and at the time, it was really early in the journey, but it was kind of unique in that, you know, Figma was, has been…
- ▶ 36:55 Harry Stebbings Is DLM pushing you to be more efficient?
- ▶ 37:20 Sean Boscanian So I think this might be like a unique Figma thing that for us, I'm pushing and Dylan is on board with,
"Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:58 Harry Stebbings The, the, the, the unbelievable, unwaveringly brilliant founder of Dillon,
- ▶ 47:02 Miles Clements 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.
Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:38 unnamed speaker In the, in the right corner, Dylan Fields, heavyweight champion of the world, in the left corner, lovable, ring, uh, replet, ringman, Jason Lemkin, you know? 2 times in the scene
Anthropic's Super Bowl Ad: Who Won & Lost? | Sierra Hits $150M ARR: Is Customer Support Too Crowded? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:46 Mike Cannon-Brookes To be fair, if you go talk to a Figma employee, my friend Dylan's having a fun time over there, and they're a good example of a company who's like, I think they're going to do great in the current environment, right?
a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:41 Anish Acharya I'm not sure that Dylan and team saw that 10 years ago, but I think they're well positioned today.
Base44’s Founder, Maor Shlomo on How Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:02 Harry Stebbings You know, I've had the founders of Salesforce, Benioff, Atlassian, Mike Cannon-Brooks, Cloudflare, Matt Prince, uh, Dylan Field from Figma, uh, even Carl Pei, the founder of Nothing, the phone company, has created their own
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 27:09 Max Altman And, by the way, feel free to talk to any of these people about their experience working with Sequoia, and it was like the Collisons, it was like, you know, Dylan at Field, it was the guys at DoorDash, and I'm like, dude, I'm not gonna win…
OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:51 Harry Stebbings Um, I don't know if you're a Synthesia, you're looking at Dylan and Figma going, God, do I want to put myself in that potential 18 month waiting period?
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
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings 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.
- ▶ 45:22 Zach Lloyd And then for the subsequent rounds of Warp, which were Dylan Field led the A and 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:28 Zach Lloyd Whereas, like, you know, Andrew or even Dylan sometimes will help do that kind of thing. 2 times in the scene
Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:08 Harry Stebbings It took a while for Dylan to actually come out with any product. 3 times in the scene
Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:59 Brian Halligan So Dylan decided at the end of the day. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:56 Harry Stebbings Um, the one thing that I do think is that if we're Dylan now at Figma, are we thinking, you know what?
- ▶ 20:05 Brian Halligan Who's deciding who's on the platform, which is another thing Dylan was dealing with, which is super irritating, probably doubled a couple of weeks before to the VCs making on the platform, uh, for example.
- ▶ 24:05 Harry Stebbings I think an element that we chatted about, texted about before, Brian, that not enough people are talking about is actually kind of the package that's in place also for Dylan, which is obviously kind of this kind of two billion dollar… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:45 unnamed speaker The problem with the Dillon Comp package, I'm going to say it didn't work. 4 times in the scene
How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk & Figma IPO Breakdown: Where Does it Price? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:45 Harry Stebbings Dylan cashing out 60 to a hundred million.
Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:06 Rory O'Driscoll Figma and Vitaly.
Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:16 Jason Lemkin Dylan, Dylan talked him into doing it, right? 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 5:12 unnamed speaker Dylan does always say simple is better.
- ▶ 38:34 unnamed speaker You can build the most beautiful thing and it's not discovered, and Figma has been the place where I learned that the most because Dylan, our founder, from the beginning was very much about the designer community and getting them talking… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:25 Harry Stebbings Could be Dylan, could be product teams, could be whatever.
- ▶ 53:23 Harry Stebbings What did Dylan say to galvanize the team? 5 times in the scene
20VC: Four Traits of the Most Successful Founders | How to Hunt and Close Talent Like a Pro and Where All Founders Go Wrong | Lessons Raising $397M From the Best Investors in the World with Eléonore Crespo @ Pigment
- ▶ 15:12 Eleonore Crespo I was very lucky to be close to people like Olivier at Datalog or Dylan at Figma.
Bucky Moore @ Lightspeed Venture Partners: Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:44 Harry Stebbings Cause I, I, Dylan always seemed to be brilliant.
Nabeel Hyatt, GP @ Spark Capital: To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | E1255 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:13 Nabeel Hyatt And, uh, and, and I, and it's, for me it's that because also there was just like a connection with Dylan.
Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:57 Harry Stebbings They would say that they have incredible teams and they have IR and they have legal and accounting and portfolio services, which mean they are able to just be finding the next Dylan field.
Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:10 Harry Stebbings Respectfully to Dylan and team, this was pre any revenue scaling, really. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:53 Mamoon Hamid I'd put, uh, Dylan from Figma in the bucket.
Eoghan McCabe, CEO @Intercom: Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control | E1213 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:23 Harry Stebbings Like we need liquidity and M&A what you're going to do a Dylan and go through 18 months of hell and then get blocked.
Jason Lemkin: Crowdstrike, WTF Happens From Here? Wiz Rejects Google’s $23BN Acquisition Offer|E1181 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:41 Jason Lemkin And I bet he called Dylan at Figma and he said, Dylan, how was it? 2 times in the scene
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:37 Harry Stebbings We have incredible founders like the Collisons, like Dylan Field, like Daniel Gross, who are investing and creating a new class of competition.
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:55 Harry Stebbings Again, three years in the dark, respectfully, and I, you know, we both know Dylan very well, amazing, but it's a long time. 3 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:48 Jason Lemkin If you don't invest in Dylan at Figma, you're not gonna make any money.
Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:19 Miles Grimshaw Uh, Dylan at Figma, Zach at Plaid, uh, and, um, and Alex at Scale, and I have enormous respect for all three of them, um, got to know all three of them really early, and I just, I struggled with it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:49 Miles Grimshaw You meet someone like Dylan, you meet someone like Zach, you meet someone like Saji of, uh, Benchlang.
Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:42 Nikhil Basu Trivedi You know, I spent time with Dylan Field in the very early days. 6 times in the scene
Cris Valenzuela: AI Creators vs Hollywood Writers; How We Grew Runway into a $1.5B Company | E1054 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:31 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, I think straight away to Dylan Field at Figma with this, and what I mean by that is like, they're really heavy build outs technologically, and you chose to kind of build in public where bluntly, you know, four seconds is… 2 times in the scene
Sarah Guo: On Her New $101M Fund; How AI Impacts Inequality; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1007 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:03 Harry Stebbings You know, you're very good friends with Dylan Field at Figma.
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:58 Jason Lemkin I bet if we got Dylan back together and we really picked at it, it wasn't like, I bet he actually got some version of it out early. 2 times in the scene
Des Traynor: How I Founded Intercom; Product Marketing Tips; Feature Creep | 20VC #907 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:28 Des Traynor And Dylan's too smart a guy to, like, not make monster progress.
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?!
- ▶ 0:49 Harry Stebbings For 2021, it was OpenSea, and you can check out his piece on the twentyminutevc.com where we've linked to it, and I do also want to say a huge thank you to Dylan at Figma for some fantastic
- ▶ 3:44 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from so many mutual friends, from Avichel Garg, from Dylan Field, from Alexis Ohanian, who all actually provided questions as well, but thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 30:27 Devin Finzer I don't know if the closest, but one that comes to mind is Dylan Field. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:47 Harry Stebbings I want to say a huge thank you to him for making the time to do the show there, and a huge thank you to Dylan and Alexis for providing some fantastic questions.
20 Sales: When To Hire Your Head of Sales/ First Reps, What To Look for in 10x Sales Candidates, How To Structure The Hiring Process, How To Onboard New Reps Efficiently, How To Set First Quotas and more with Kyle Parrish, Figma's VP Sales
- ▶ 26:18 Kyle Parrish If Dylan wants to jump in Salesforce, which I don't think he does often, but he could actually see notes on where the account's at, what the deal's scoped out to be, why we win, why we don't win.
- ▶ 28:28 Kyle Parrish I will say I reported to Dylan for a number of months 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings To date, Linda has raised over fifty million dollars with Common Room, from the likes of Danny Reimer at Index, Sarah Grew at Greylock, Dylan Field at Figma, Dick Costolo, and of course, TwentyVC Fund.
- ▶ 32:32 Linda Lian I think the first angel was Dylan Field at Figma. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Loom Founder Joe Thomas on Whether To Take Multi-Stage Money at Seed, How Early Stage Founders Should Select Their VC, How Sequoia Won The Loom Deal & The 3 Rules To Operate Remote Teams Successfully
- ▶ 30:43 Joe Thomas So Andrew Reid was an intro from Dylan Field of Figma, one of our early angels,
20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability
- ▶ 22:02 Sarah Cannon Maybe I should get the memo, but I think that will be 80% of normal, and I think, you know, Dylan at Figma and I were discussing this two weeks ago.
20VC: Kapwing Founder Julia Enthoven on Why Marketing Innovation Is As Important As Product Innovation, Why Every Company Is Becoming A Media Company & The Benefits Of Not Raising Money Too Early
- ▶ 0:46 Harry Stebbings And prior to founding Kapoing, Julia was an associate product manager at Google, where she worked on everything from image search to sign-up workflows, and I do also want to say a huge thank you to the wonderful Dylan at Figma for the… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
- ▶ 3:33 Harry Stebbings Mike, Shardul, Ari, Dylan at Figma, Eddie at Goat.