Figma

includes Figma Make Designs, Figma Design, Figma Slides, Figma Make

171 statements across 71 episodes · 55 bullish · 44 bearish · 48 people on the record · first statement Apr 19, 2019 by Dylan Field · said 881 times in 173 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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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 neutral
Disclosure
Benchmark's John Lilly rejected Figma's seed round before leading Series A
“I had met John Lilly, the seed, and he turned us down, actually. But he said, hey, look, like, if you want to keep talking, I'm down.”
Dylan Field Apr 19, 2019 ▶ 14:53 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
Apr 19, 2019 negative
Insight
Professional software tools must reject the 'move fast and break things' ethos
“I also hope that the tool team that's working on the editor at Figma, where we're supporting designers who have to put food on the table, and eight percent of our users are international, and many of them are living in third-world countries. This is bringing t…”
Dylan Field Apr 19, 2019 ▶ 10:37 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
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dylan Field: Figma spent two to three years recruiting its design director
“Our director of design, Noah, I think it took us like two or three years to get him in the door.”
Dylan Field Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 21:15 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: Power-user features should never compromise basic user experience
“You keep things simple, and I think that especially later in your product life cycle, the requests you get are dominated by power users sometimes, and they're asking for more power. You can't forget that the reason that became a power user in the first place i…”
Dylan Field Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 13:26 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: 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 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
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 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 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Dylan Field: Figma aims to own the complete design lifecycle by 2030
“I think that there's an opportunity for us to totally own and support the design process and life cycle. So everything from idea to mock-up to research and consolidation to prototyping all the way production.”
Dylan Field Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 27:22 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
Dec 14, 2020
Prediction Not publicly verifiable
Dylan Field: Figma plans to nearly double its headcount in 2021
“Well, we're still, speaking of board, we're still finalizing our twenty-twenty win plan, but I think we'll near double the team again, which is pretty wild.”
Dylan Field Dec 14, 2020 ▶ 26:50 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
Jan 25, 2021 positive
Insight
Libin: Digital collaboration tools unlock productivity from introverted team members
“When we went from being in person to doing all of these things, you know, we no longer do brainstorming in a big conference room with, you know, stick stickies, post-it notes, you know, now we do it all on Figma, and actually I started noticing, man, I'm just …”
Phil Libin Jan 25, 2021 ▶ 21:47 20VC: Evernote & mmhmm Founder Phil Libin on Why We are Beginning a Multi-Trillion Dollar Restructuring of the World, Why Shortcuts are the Biggest Mistakes Startups Make & The Future of Video and The Unbundling of Zoom
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
Jul 19, 2021 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
George: Front-end engineers doing design expands Figma's market by 10x
“Our view was that all front end engineers in the future will engage in design, and this is 10 X plus bigger in terms of market opportunity than just defining what they do in the design space.”
David George Jul 19, 2021 ▶ 6:31 20VC: a16z's David George on Leading a16z's Growth Fund Today, The Biggest Misconceptions of Growth Investing, How a16z Think Through Portfolio Construction, Investment Decision-Making and Scenario Planning & How The Entrance of New Players Has Changed Th
Dec 8, 2021 positive
Assertion Supported
Figma's sales organization is approaching 100 employees
“As the sales organ Figma is rounding a hundred people and growing steadily.”
Kyle Parrish Dec 8, 2021 ▶ 25:01 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
Dec 8, 2021 bullish
Prediction Held up
Figma's $10B valuation is just the floor for the company
“You know, we're now a ten billion dollar company with the most recent fundraise, but we also genuinely think that that's just the floor. I mean, Figma is going to be a massive company and we're just getting started.”
Kyle Parrish Dec 8, 2021 ▶ 31:40 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
Dec 8, 2021
Insight
Early sales leaders should meet weekly with founders and own the agenda
“So what I learned early that I think the founder and that sales leader should be meeting at least weekly is my expectation for an hour, you know, at minimum, I think going into that, and this is a general framework that I follow for all the people in my team i…”
Kyle Parrish Dec 8, 2021 ▶ 29:13 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
Dec 8, 2021
Prediction Held up
Figma is preparing to launch an SMB sales segment
“And we're actually soon launching SMB”
Kyle Parrish Dec 8, 2021 ▶ 27:32 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
Dec 8, 2021 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Figma had no customer-facing employees when Kyle Parrish joined
“When I joined Figma, for example, there was nobody in a customer facing role.”
Kyle Parrish Dec 8, 2021 ▶ 20:52 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
Dec 8, 2021
Disclosure
Figma eliminated manager fit screens from its sales hiring process
“After a while, we kind of like remove the manager fit screen because we felt like we're really calibrated with recruiting.”
Kyle Parrish Dec 8, 2021 ▶ 17:16 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
Dec 8, 2021
Insight
Hire a sales leader before expanding to three or more reps
“I think if you have hit some level of product market fit, you're seeing traction. You know that there is a market to go grab, and it's a speed game. And like, we need to go do it fast. And you're like, I think that we can support having five salespeople, even,…”
Kyle Parrish Dec 8, 2021 ▶ 6:36 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
Dec 8, 2021 positive
Disclosure
Figma maintains a strict zero-discounting policy on its product
“We don't discount the product. It's something we've held to really strongly.”
Kyle Parrish Dec 8, 2021 ▶ 34:19 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
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?!
Feb 2, 2022 positive
Opinion
Herzberg: Figma and Notion have executed the best recent sales strategies
“Figma and Notion. Community first. Welcome sales assist. Impassioned user base.”
Dannie Herzberg Feb 2, 2022 ▶ 43:21 20 Sales: How To Build Sales Teams with a Product-Led-Growth GTM, What is a Sales Hiring Scorecard and How To Construct Yours & How To Structure the Onboarding Process for all New Sales Hires with Dannie Herzberg, Partner @ Sequoia Capital
Oct 10, 2022
Assertion Partly supported
Gerstner: Sequoia's early Figma investment yielded 100x while late-stage yielded 2x
“If you look at the difference between the Sequoia round in Figma or the durable round in Figma, right? It's the difference between, you know, having a hundred plus X outcome and a two X outcome.”
Brad Gerstner Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 16:36 Brad Gerstner: How I Pick Companies; Lessons from Warren Buffet; Chamath vs Gurley | E935 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 16, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Parrish: Figma had no customer-facing employees when he joined
“When I joined Figma, for example, there was nobody in a customer-facing role, and so I'm Sales enablement, sales operations, sales finance, and I'm all of those things bad or mediocre at best because you just have to be. Those roles and those functions don't e…”
Carl Parrish Nov 16, 2022 ▶ 24:18 20 Sales: The Ultimate Guide to Sales Onboarding for New Sales Reps and Sales Leaders, The Biggest Red Flags in the First 30 Days & What Can Be Done to Set Them Up for Success with Leaders from Figma, Dropbox, Miro and more.
Dec 15, 2022 bullish
Opinion
Figma Equity Is Virtually Guaranteed Value Compared to Unknown Startups
“200,000 dollars of equity at Figma is going to be very different than 200,000 dollars at Maybe a small company that doesn't have a good chance of success. And is probably either going to get acquired for a nominal amount or just fizzle out because you know wha…”
Maggie Hott Dec 15, 2022 ▶ 1:01:31 Maggie Hott: 3 Questions You Must Ask When Interviewing Sales Reps | 20VC #960 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 13, 2023 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lemkin: Laid-off tech workers won't build Figma, they want easy jobs
“I don't think any of those people are going to go off and start the next Figma. I think they're going to continue to look for a job. They can kind of phone it in and make a lot of money.”
Jason Lemkin Jan 13, 2023 ▶ 31:50 Jason Lemkin: WTF is Going On in VC? Are LPs Investing in New Funds? | 20VC #965 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 18, 2023 positive
Insight
Startups with network effects should hire growth talent earlier to engineer loops
“If your product has a social collaboration, network effect, that kind of thing, think about Slack, LinkedIn, right, or anything like, or Airtable, Figma, hiring for growth early on, a little bit earlier, will allow you to engineering those growth loops into th…”
Hila Qu Jan 18, 2023 ▶ 19:16 Hila Qu: The Ultimate Guide to Product Growth at Your Startup | 20VC #967 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 19, 2023 positive
Opinion
Isford: Figma's FigJam launch was outstanding growth execution
“I think Figma did a really great job with the launch of FigJam. It was smart feature development to bring in a different section of the market with a product that plays very nicely with their core offering.”
Lauryn Isford Jul 19, 2023 ▶ 59:27 Lauryn Isford: Product Growth Secrets from Facebook, Airtable, BlueBottle, Dropbox & Notion | E1037 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 6, 2023 negative
Opinion
Stebbings: Portfolio enterprise value is a bullshit metric for VC funds
“I think the enterprise value of, like, portfolio companies is Total bullshit though, too, because it's like, I could invest in, you know, Figma and the Series E. Fair enough. And then it's like, we've created thirty-five billion dollars, and you're like, come …”
Harry Stebbings Sep 6, 2023 ▶ 1:00:17 Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 6, 2023
Disclosure
Basu Trivedi passed on early Figma rounds for lacking product-market fit
“This comes back to my bias around wanting to see some early signs of product market fit before investing, and Figma did not have a launched product. Before its first couple of venture rounds.”
Nikhil Basu Trivedi Sep 6, 2023 ▶ 51:53 Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 18, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Figma was at $4M ARR when Sequoia invested at $400M valuation
“I remember when they, it's public, but they were at four million in ARR when Andrew did them at 400.”
Harry Stebbings Sep 18, 2023 ▶ 50:52 Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 18, 2023 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Late-stage startups spend roughly 3x more per seat on Figma than Slack
“And so how that actually plays out is probably a third of the company from my surveying has paid seats inside of Figma, and they pay about three times as much as they would for something like Slack.”
Miles Grimshaw Sep 18, 2023 ▶ 51:33 Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 18, 2023 negative
Disclosure
Grimshaw regrets missing early investments in Figma, Plaid, and Scale AI
“Dylan at Figma, Zach at Plaid and Alex at Scale, and I have enormous respect for all three of them got to know all three of them really early, and I just, I struggled with it.”
Miles Grimshaw Sep 18, 2023 ▶ 48:19 Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 6, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rauch: Next-gen apps like Notion and Figma will look completely different
“So if I have to create the next notion, the next superhuman, the next figma, My bet is that it certainly is going to look completely different because before I would reach for what I would call like software one point no solutions.”
Guillermo Rauch Oct 6, 2023 ▶ 39:34 Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 27, 2023
Insight
Stebbings: Allocating reserves based on early traction misses generational enterprise companies
“What's working often is unsustainable, and it's your sneaks, your figmas, your big IDs, which actually may take a bit longer. But you wouldn't allocate to them if you were doing it on traction.”
Harry Stebbings Oct 27, 2023 ▶ 39:57 Ed Sim: Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive & Why Pricing Has Never Been Higher | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 12, 2024 neutral
Opinion
Rabois: FTC's Adobe-Figma challenge was standard antitrust enforcement
“Figma in some ways was easier case for the government in the FTC, which has been very aggressive than many other cases. You know, Figma Is competitive with Adobe's products. Like at the end of the day, that's not like a stretch where the FCC has been taking so…”
Keith Rabois Jan 12, 2024 ▶ 1:09:59 Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 2, 2024 positive
Insight
Will Wu: Product teams should prototype with code, not just Figma
“I'm a huge fan of rapid prototyping, like not just creating interactive Figma mockups that you can click on, but literal prototyping with real software code so that you can just rapidly experiment and feel out using your intuition and your instinct”
Will Wu Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 22:45 Will Wu: Top Five Product Lessons from Creating Snapchat "Discover" and "Chat" | E1111 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 16, 2024 negative
Opinion
Brenner: European regulatory intervention by CMA stifles innovation and competition
“Too much regulations could just gonna stiffer innovation. And what we've seen here, where they just extrapolate them, making up their own opinions with CMA and in firms of Figma maybe competing in the future. I think it's totally wrong and it was stiff for com…”
Johan Brenner Feb 16, 2024 ▶ 54:57 Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 3, 2024 negative
Insight
Lemkin: Canva, Not Figma, Directly Threatens Adobe's Core Creative Revenue
“Well, it's what, I mean, Adobe, the majority of Adobe's revenue is still from designers designing assets in creative cloud. And that is exactly what Canva does. It's not prototyping products, which is what Figma is great at.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 3, 2024 ▶ 32:03 Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 3, 2024 negative
Opinion
Lemkin: Regulators Made a Mistake Blocking Adobe's Acquisition of Figma
“I think, I do think the regulators got this one wrong, and maybe even they got it wrong, who knows, because of, this is why the Google HubSpot thing might be worse, and maybe it's how they were lobbied or manipulated, because I don't think it's competitive.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 3, 2024 ▶ 32:45 Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 17, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Figma took over three years to build its initial alpha
“So, so, so an example is in the case of Figma, clearly it was going to take three years plus To come up with an alpha. But that was more a question of, were they going to be able to deliver the product of significance enough to be relevant and to dominate the …”
Danny Rimer Jun 17, 2024 ▶ 25:52 Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 8, 2024 positive
Opinion
Grady: Kleiner Perkins partner Mamoon Hamid is an exceptional deal picker
“Somebody who I really admire is Mamoon at Kleiner. I think Mamoon has an exceptional track record of investing in companies that are not at all obvious at the time. And I think about the series B in Figma, which is a round that we looked at and passed on. I th…”
Pat Grady Jul 8, 2024 ▶ 24:59 Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 8, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Grady: Figma had $4.6M ARR at Sequoia's Series C
“So the series C and Figma, when Figma had, I think, 4.6 million of ARR, that was not at all obvious, but Andrew had spent three years Studying the design market and had a real point of view.”
Pat Grady Jul 8, 2024 ▶ 27:58 Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 8, 2024 negative
Disclosure
Grady: Sequoia looked at and passed on Figma's Series B
“And I think about the series B in Figma, which is a round that we looked at and passed on.”
Pat Grady Jul 8, 2024 ▶ 25:07 Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 24, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
Lemkin: Figma competed only with an abandoned $30M Adobe product line
“Figma was directly destroying a thirty million dollar product line that Adobe had abandoned, ok, with XD sketch or whatever it's called.”
Jason Lemkin Jul 24, 2024 ▶ 5:28 Jason Lemkin: Crowdstrike, WTF Happens From Here? Wiz Rejects Google’s $23BN Acquisition Offer|E1181 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 24, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Lemkin: Wiz acquisition faces greater antitrust hurdles than Adobe-Figma
“If Figma could be blocked, I actually think Wiz is, is more competitive to, there's more antitrust, even though I don't think it should be blocked remotely,”
Jason Lemkin Jul 24, 2024 ▶ 5:41 Jason Lemkin: Crowdstrike, WTF Happens From Here? Wiz Rejects Google’s $23BN Acquisition Offer|E1181 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 14, 2024 positive
Insight
Kaz Nejatian: Figma survived its failed acquisition by acting like it never happened
“Companies that usually, like, usually mergers that fall apart or acquisitions that fall apart end up with in a really bad place because companies just typically have checked out by the time the acquisition happens. Figma is thriving. And I think they're thrivi…”
Kaz Nejatian Aug 14, 2024 ▶ 1:04:54 Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 21, 2024
Disclosure
Hamid: KP's Figma deal was contentious at $500k ARR and $110M valuation
“You know, actually Figma was quite contentious. Yeah, it was, yeah. Because to your point, around like half a million of AR at a 110, 15 post, whatever it was at the time it was really like the same thing. There's Envision, there's Sketch. This company's been …”
Mamoon Hamid Oct 21, 2024 ▶ 51:24 Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 21, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Hamid shares entry valuations for Slack, Figma, and Rippling
“Probably Slack, I would say, you know, even at the 250 post that's, you know, with all the dilution over time and, If you take the twenty-seven billion or some other number that's a, obviously, a good, great multiple. Figma, you know, the initial investment wa…”
Mamoon Hamid Oct 21, 2024 ▶ 30:24 Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 21, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hamid: Slack and Figma created entirely new software market categories
“Slack created a market. In some ways, Figma created a market. There wasn't a notion of collaborative design software.”
Mamoon Hamid Oct 21, 2024 ▶ 38:33 Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 21, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Hamid: FTC and Lina Khan did not block the Adobe-Figma deal
“I don't think, ah, a lot of us put a lot of the blame on Lena Khan, poor Lena Khan because, you know, in our own experience, that's not, that was not the issue for Adobe Figma. It wasn't Lena, ah, or the FTC, ah, there were other issues. So I think it's broadl…”
Mamoon Hamid Oct 21, 2024 ▶ 33:48 Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 21, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Hamid: Early Figma data showed designers using the product 15-18 days monthly
“You just saw that designers were using the product 1516, 1718 days out of a month.”
Mamoon Hamid Oct 21, 2024 ▶ 36:30 Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 21, 2024
Assertion Supported
Hamid: Sketch and InVision were significantly larger than Figma early on
“But Sketch and InVision are way bigger than Figma for a while.”
Mamoon Hamid Oct 21, 2024 ▶ 38:09 Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 25, 2024 positive
Insight
Goldberg: Great companies expand TAM by increasing product surface area
“I mean, if you look at, you know, I was very fortunate to see some amazing companies from index from the early days, whether it was a Figma, whether it was a whiz, whether it was a data dog companies that, you know, have been able to build TAM by just increasi…”
Mark Goldberg Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 44:57 Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 16, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hoffman: Derailed Adobe acquisition will make me more money on Figma
“I mean, look, I'm an investor and all the rest, and I think Figma is an amazing company that's gonna, gonna, I'm probably going to make substantially more money because the deal was essentially derailed, but there was a bad theory of the case.”
Reid Hoffman Dec 16, 2024 ▶ 54:59 Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn & Paypal Founder: Trump Administration, Elon Musk and DOGE | E1239 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 3, 2025
Disclosure
Hyatt: I passed on pre-launch Figma due to high valuation and check size
“Mine is Figma. It was quite a while ago now. It was still pre-launch, so it was trying to write like a very large check pre-launch.”
Nabeel Hyatt Feb 3, 2025 ▶ 41:02 Nabeel Hyatt, GP @ Spark Capital: To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | E1255 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 14, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Biilmann: Figma faces existential revenue threat without end-to-end AI building tools
“But if Figma doesn't manage to connect that to the full end to end chain of prototyping and building and so on, then this could be a pretty existential threat. To companies like that over time, or at least like a threat to their current revenue model”
Matt Biilmann Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 17:31 20Product: How to Design and Build Products in a World of Agents | Why AI Will Kill Many SaaS Products | What Products Will Thrive and Die in a World of 100M Developers with Matt Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO @ Netlify
Apr 3, 2025 bullish
Prediction Partly held up
Lemkin: Stripe, Figma, Chime, and Canva will IPO within 18 months
“Stripe, Figma Chime, the list of folks north of five hundred million, ok, Canva, three billion, that are gonna IPO in the next 18 months.”
Jason Lemkin Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 50:30 20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
May 16, 2025
Assertion Supported
Yamashita: Figma's early Make Design feature merely matched prompts to templates
“We had worked on some AI features the year before, which at the time we had called make design, where you can go from a prompt and it would generate some designs on the canvas. And it was a pretty simple feature. You write some prompts and then it would use so…”
Yuhki Yamashita May 16, 2025 ▶ 28:32 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
May 16, 2025
Insight
Yamashita: Designers present idealized mocks in portfolios instead of production screenshots
“There's still a strong disconnect between what people design and what ends up in users hands. And for me, a thought experiment is next time a designer shares a portfolio with you, are they sharing the designs that were beautiful mocks? Are they sharing the des…”
Yuhki Yamashita May 16, 2025 ▶ 45:08 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
May 16, 2025
Insight
Yamashita: Polish core user paths first, skip perfecting speculative features
“If you're perfecting details for a critical part that it's going to help you understand how well this product is going to do in the market, then by all means. But if you're starting to kind of perfect these areas that are much more speculative or areas of the …”
Yuhki Yamashita May 16, 2025 ▶ 37:16 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
May 16, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Yamashita: Small 'Little Big Updates' are among Figma's most popular launches
“In fact, some of our most popular launches are these small little things that we brand them as little big updates. Our users love it.”
Yuhki Yamashita May 16, 2025 ▶ 47:30 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
May 16, 2025 positive
Insight
Yamashita: Tangible prototypes convince stakeholders far better than theoretical pitches
“Building something tangible that people can use convinces people more that this idea is tenable.”
Yuhki Yamashita May 16, 2025 ▶ 8:45 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
May 16, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Yamashita: Figma's perfectionist culture requires pushing teams to ship
“For example, at Figma, we have a culture of everyone wants to get the details right, so sometimes we have to encourage people to be comfortable getting something shipped.”
Yuhki Yamashita May 16, 2025 ▶ 36:53 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
May 16, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Yamashita: Code is the primary source of truth in Figma Make
“In Figma make, source of truth is code, and we figure out how to take your design, translate it into code, and then let you iterate via code, because code is so expressive.”
Yuhki Yamashita May 16, 2025 ▶ 17:43 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
May 16, 2025
Insight
Yamashita: Observing User Hacks Reveals Real Signal for Product Roadmaps
“It's important to observe how people hack your product, you know, use that as inspiration, because that's real signal, right? They're going out of their way to demonstrate to you that they have a need, even though you're not delivering on it.”
Yuhki Yamashita May 16, 2025 ▶ 7:17 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
May 16, 2025 negative
Opinion
Yamashita: Gap between design and production code is primarily a bug
“I would say it's primarily bugged today. Perhaps at times masquerading as a feature because I think designers are always designing ahead, right? So they're always thinking about v one, v two, v next. And so as a result of that, it is natural for the designs to…”
Yuhki Yamashita May 16, 2025 ▶ 45:49 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
May 16, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Yamashita: Future product building tools must support multiple entry points
“The future has to be one where there are many entry points because building a product is just necessarily this very Complex, multifaceted thing.”
Yuhki Yamashita May 16, 2025 ▶ 16:00 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
May 16, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Yamashita: Figma's internal culture relies heavily on undocumented tribal knowledge
“It's still a very tribal knowledge. You know, you kind of have to know this random nuance here, which is why, you know, this backstory, which is why we can't do this. And sometimes that prohibits some of the new people from being able to get to a better soluti…”
Yuhki Yamashita May 16, 2025 ▶ 56:26 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
May 16, 2025
Assertion Supported
Yamashita: Figma tracks user reliance via ND7s, targeting 5 days weekly
“Our first product, Figma Design, has always set the bar for what it means to be a kind of tool that people are deeply, deeply reliant on. That's kind of the golden standard... We call it ND sevens, like how many days in a week? That people are using your produ…”
Yuhki Yamashita May 16, 2025 ▶ 37:53 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
May 16, 2025
Insight
Yamashita: Figma tests new feature stickiness with a one-week usage check
“We often do some beta testing where we put it in front of a team and then we check in a week later and are they still using it?”
Yuhki Yamashita May 16, 2025 ▶ 27:57 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
May 16, 2025 neutral
Insight
Yamashita: Adding headcount does not solve product integration challenges
“It's not always the case that throwing more people or resources at a problem makes something go faster, and I say this because we just launched a bunch of new products, and perhaps the hardest problem still is how do we make them connect better, and making the…”
Yuhki Yamashita May 16, 2025 ▶ 48:10 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
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
May 16, 2025
Insight
Yamashita: Non-designers prefer linear workflows over Figma's 2D infinite canvas
“But as we started building other products, we realized, and other audiences, they're like, oh no, people are confused by a two D canvas. They would prefer to be in more of a workflow where they can see one thing at a time. And so as we contemplated other Types…”
Yuhki Yamashita May 16, 2025 ▶ 27:23 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
May 16, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Yamashita: Users created 3.5M presentation decks in Figma before Slides launched
“Before our Slides product, three and a half million decks were being made in Figma design, even though it wasn't intended for it.”
Yuhki Yamashita May 16, 2025 ▶ 7:57 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
May 16, 2025
Insight
Yamashita: Products requiring tutorials to explain value signal design failure
“All too often people end up kind of having to walk people through, okay, this tutorial of like, let me just explain to you why this product is better. And to me, that's not just a story. It's also kind of a constraint in the design. Like you're maybe not pushi…”
Yuhki Yamashita May 16, 2025 ▶ 13:06 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
May 16, 2025 neutral
Prediction Open · timeframe May 2030
Yamashita: Figma engineering headcount won't scale proportionally with product expansion
“I don't think we'll have fewer engineers than we have today, but you know, I think we'll be able to do more than we're able to today. You know, as we expand more products, I don't, expect the number of engineers, for example, to grow in proportion.”
Yuhki Yamashita May 16, 2025 ▶ 23:54 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
May 16, 2025
Insight
Yamashita: Software Tools Differ From Consumer Apps Due to Unpredictable Behavior
“Some of these are pretty sophisticated products, and the kind of interesting thing about building a tool is a tool is very different from, like, a typical consumer product where, you know, there's a funnel and you're trying to optimize the metric. Like, you're…”
Yuhki Yamashita May 16, 2025 ▶ 42:55 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
May 19, 2025 neutral
What-if
Hacker: Duolingo would have rejected chess course without working AI prototype
“If it had just been a Figma design, we probably was like, ah, you know, ah, maybe, maybe not. But the prototype was. So good that it convinced everyone.”
Severin Hacker May 19, 2025 ▶ 41:28 Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 2, 2025 negative
Insight
Mohan: Design-to-code tools address a tiny fraction of software engineering
“The things that the lovables and figmas do as like maybe a very small fraction of what software is. Like ultimately, like most software is not just like a website that, that it has like some backend attached to it.”
Varun Mohan Jun 2, 2025 ▶ 35:58 Windsurf CEO & Co-Founder, Varun Mohan: AI's Biggest Acquisition to Date! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 2, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Mohan: Windsurf skips early Figma design stages when building apps
“Internally right now, when we build apps, we're not very, very quickly going to Figma at the very beginning if the app can be built Very fast inside.”
Varun Mohan Jun 2, 2025 ▶ 35:14 Windsurf CEO & Co-Founder, Varun Mohan: AI's Biggest Acquisition to Date! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 12, 2025 bullish
Prediction Held up
O'Driscoll: Figma will IPO soon rather than stay private
“My guess is it totally makes sense for them to get a great IPO under their belt. In a way that, and not do the strike thing of stay private for another three or four years.”
Rory O'Driscoll Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 11:48 Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 3, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
O'Driscoll: Figma reached Rule of 80 with 40%+ free cash flow margins
“And you didn't even mention one of the more impressive ones, which is kind of the profitability and free cash flow margins last quarter, like, 40% plus. So, upping positive, free cash flow positive, growing 46%. So, again, rough math on an iPhone on a small sc…”
Rory O'Driscoll Jul 3, 2025 ▶ 1:31 Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 3, 2025 positive
What-if
Lemkin: Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition would look like a great deal today
“You know, it also, you know, I mean, Scott Belsky was right. They should have bought him. People made fun of them for overpaying, right? Twenty billion, right? But I think the beauty is if you're Adobe, you can be a little patient. It's okay if you pay two yea…”
Jason Lemkin Jul 3, 2025 ▶ 3:28 Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 24, 2025 positive
Opinion
O'Driscoll: Figma was uniquely positioned to execute a direct listing
“It's actually one of the few companies that could have done it, it's profitable, so it's not sitting there. I mean, one of the reasons you don't do a direct listing is either you need the capital, they don't, or you have this existential dread of screwing up y…”
Rory O'Driscoll Jul 24, 2025 ▶ 43:02 How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk & Figma IPO Breakdown: Where Does it Price? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
O'Driscoll: Figma's IPO involves only 6% primary share dilution
“I think they're only raising around six percent primary share dilution.”
Rory O'Driscoll Jul 24, 2025 ▶ 39:19 How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk & Figma IPO Breakdown: Where Does it Price? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 31, 2025 bearish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Lemkin: Figma and AI coding tools will compete within 12 months
“Today, they're great partners. It doesn't make sense that they will be great partners for prototyping in 12 months. It makes no sense.”
Jason Lemkin Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 1:12:43 Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 31, 2025 bullish
Prediction Held up
O'Driscoll: Figma will price well and pop on its IPO
“My sense is it's hard not to imagine this thing pricing and then popping very well because the structure of how they went at it is such that they will almost certainly be that money left on the table feeling”
Rory O'Driscoll Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 1:06:33 Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 31, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
O'Driscoll: Four VC firms will each return $1B from Figma
“The reality of four VC firms, each making a billion dollars, that'll focus the mind.”
Rory O'Driscoll Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 1:07:02 Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 31, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
O'Driscoll: Nobody will build non-AI B2B software going forward
“Startup activity in the space that Figma plays is not going to be a thing anymore. You're not going to do a non, imagine you're not going to build a non AI collaborative design tool. You're not going to build a non AI, any kind of B to B software.”
Rory O'Driscoll Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 1:10:00 Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 31, 2025 negative
Insight
O'Driscoll: VC holding periods now outlast full tech cycles
“Our holding period is now longer than the tech cycle. That's a terrifying fact. Figma's holding period is 12 or 13 years”
Rory O'Driscoll Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 1:10:36 Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 4, 2025 bearish
Insight
Owning 10% of a $20B Company Returns 0.2x for a $7B Fund
“If you're a GC, their last fundraiser, seven billion, say you own 10% of a Figma, which is a generational company, two billion, you know, they're going to take 20% of that. I mean, you've returned what? Point zero point two X. You need 15 Figma's.”
Miles Dieffenbach Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 46:06 Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 4, 2025 neutral
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2028
Figma Will Likely Price Between $20B and $25B
“It's probably going to, we'll see where it prices, call it 20 to twenty five billion.”
Miles Dieffenbach Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 46:02 Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 4, 2025 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Index Ventures Is the Largest Shareholder in Figma, Dream Games, and Wiz
“Largest shareholder in Figma, largest shareholder in Dream Games, largest shareholder in Wiz you know, second largest shareholder in Scale.ai, Revolut.”
Miles Dieffenbach Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 42:45 Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 7, 2025 neutral
What-if
O'Driscoll: Figma's $98 IPO pop only happened because it priced at $38
“The 98 price only happened because the IPO happened at 38.”
Rory O'Driscoll Aug 7, 2025 ▶ 9:32 Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 7, 2025
Assertion Open
O'Driscoll: Figma's 250% IPO pop was largest since 1999
“Instead of getting, let's call it, the designed 15, 20% pop that makes everyone feel good, you ended up with this absurd 250% pop, right, which is clearly off the charts. I mean, I think it's the largest pop since 1999.”
Rory O'Driscoll Aug 7, 2025 ▶ 6:48 Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 7, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rory O'Driscoll: Figma Did Not Leave $3 Billion on Table in IPO
“The people who said, oh, Figma left three billion dollars on the table because they could have got 95 dollars a share, are talking out of their ass. Because I can guarantee you, the order book, I think it was one of the prices, 35, 38, whatever it was, there w…”
Rory O'Driscoll Aug 7, 2025 ▶ 9:04 Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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
Aug 7, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Halligan: Zendesk never secured long-only investors due to shaky IPO timing
“Zendesk at the time went out. And it was just, it was timing, and it was just a shaky week that they went out, and they just didn't get, they didn't get the big long onlys, and they had a good story, and they didn't get them, and they never really got them. Th…”
Brian Halligan Aug 7, 2025 ▶ 17:07 Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 7, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
O'Driscoll: Figma IPO Buyers Set Exit Price Targets Under $110
“All those big buyers who came in at Figma at 38, before they buy, they have an internal process with a price target to exit. None of those price targets are going to be more than a 110 bucks a share.”
Rory O'Driscoll Aug 7, 2025 ▶ 10:40 Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 11, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Mignot: Index Ventures invested in every funding round of Figma
“We invested in, you know, every round.”
Martin Mignot Aug 11, 2025 ▶ 51:15 Index Ventures Partner, Martin Mignot: Figma, Scale, Wiz: Inside Index’s Decacorn Factory · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 18, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Osika: AI will replace traditional, detailed manual software design workflows
“The way of doing it right now with the design, what like one person does all the design very slowly, very detailed is going to be replaced by AI doing, you talk much more high level, and you talk about your design philosophy, and then the AI does the implement…”
Anton Osika Aug 18, 2025 ▶ 28:23 Lovable CEO, Anton Osika: The State of Foundation Models, Grok vs OpenAI, and Replit vs Bolt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 28, 2025 neutral
Prediction Held up
O'Driscoll: Netskope won't see a massive first-day IPO pop like Figma
“The answer, of course, is no, because I believe, as I said earlier, in reversion to the mean, and Figma had the largest bounce of any large cap IPO since, I think, 2000. So I sincerely doubt they'll copy that.”
Rory O'Driscoll Aug 28, 2025 ▶ 58:15 Anthropic's $10B Round, Klarna's IPO, Inside a16z's 72 Deal Seed Investment Machine ft. Marc Benioff · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 26, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gibson: Revolut spends most product review time evaluating Figma designs screen-by-screen
“And then what we spend most of the time doing is looking at designs. So the designer will literally present Figma and say, okay, we've got a new problem we're looking to solve. This is how we're going to solve it. And we go through screen by screen.”
James Gibson Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 23:09 20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
Oct 30, 2025 neutral
Assertion Open · timeframe Oct 2026
O'Driscoll: Carta data shows 18% of 2018 Series Bs returned over 5x
“What it told people for listeners is they looked at all 547, 2018 series B investments, and then they did a histogram of where they come out in less than a one X, you know, one to a two X. Oh, that was series B. So 547, and then, you know, 20, 18% of them grea…”
Rory O'Driscoll Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 45:36 OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 10, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Randle: Figma investment at 100x ARR generated a 30-40x return
“One of the first hundred X deals, I think, in SaaS, and people were like, a hundred X ARR, what the hell? And obviously it ended up being, you know, I don't know, 30, 40 X, unbelievable investment.”
Everett Randle Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 52:55 Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 10, 2025 positive
Opinion
Randle: Mamoun Hamid's top wins combine B2B software with consumer engagement
“If you think about his huge, huge winners, whether it's Figma, Glean, Rippling, they all have like a common through line of the, you know, it's B to B software, but it's almost like consumer like software that, that demands really high user love and engagement…”
Everett Randle Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 9:48 Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 14, 2025
Insight
Figma Shifted From First to Last Step in AI Design Workflows
“Figma actually went from being the first step to being the last step. So now you have this process where you vibe design the kind of journey, the flows, the interactions, and because you're instructing the design through code, through writing, it doesn't get t…”
Carl Rivera Nov 14, 2025 ▶ 36:00 20Product: How AI Changes Product Design | Does the Design Phase Become Irrelevant in a World of Vibe Coding | The Five Pillars of Truly Great Product Design with Carl Rivera, Chief Design Officer at Shopify
Nov 27, 2025
Assertion Supported
Jason Lemkin: Public software multiples jump sharply above 20% and 30% growth
“If you're growing less than 20% of a cherry pick basket, 5.1 X AR, Wix is lower. It's not in my basket. 20 to 30, 11.8 X AR. And then the 30% plus, which is Rubrik, Palantir and Figma, average 23.7 X AR, but Palantir and Rubrik push that up.”
Jason Lemkin Nov 27, 2025 ▶ 1:04:20 Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 27, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Jason Lemkin: The tech IPO market will not reopen next year
“I don't think we're going to see it. I don't think we earned it this year. I don't think we have so many. You're better than Figma. You're better than Netscope. It's a high bar.”
Jason Lemkin Nov 27, 2025 ▶ 1:22:12 Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 27, 2025 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jason Lemkin: Figma's public valuation is 30-40% below Adobe's acquisition offer
“I think it's like 30 or 40% lower than Adobe deal adjusted for time dilution and risk, 30 to 40% lower.”
Jason Lemkin Nov 27, 2025 ▶ 1:20:28 Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 5, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Product designers will abandon static pixels to design directly in code
“I think so, to be honest. I think that the role of a designer will be as important as it is today, maybe even more, but I think that the tools that we use will evolve. And so you won't work on pixels and then code, but you will likely merge the two things.”
Federico Simionato Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 27:12 20VC: Inside Bending Spoons Acquisition Machine: Evernote, Eventbrite, Vimeo | How Evernote Evaluates Acquisitions and New Product Ideas | How Evernote Mastered Product Launches, User Retention and Monetisation with Federico Simionato
Dec 18, 2025 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2028
Jason Calacanis: Cursor will maim Figma and SaaS incumbents by lowering NRR
“I think the bigger risk for so many vendors is that it maims Figma... HubSpot and box and even anthropic using it, they don't leave, they renew, they don't buy as many seats, right? Because the team is also using cursor, but of course they don't churn. The log…”
Jason Lemkin Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 47:15 Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 8, 2026 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2027
Lemkin: Tech startups below Figma's caliber will struggle to IPO
“If you're not Figma or better, it's going to be rough out there. And that all these VCs are saying you can IPO at a hundred million and the IPO, the Vaughn says no to me. It says it's just barely cracked opened.”
Jason Lemkin Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 1:03:58 Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 22, 2026 negative
Opinion
Lemkin: Almost no software unicorns are better than Figma
“None of the unicorns are better than Figma, almost none of the prior, and if Figma isn't good enough, it's not good enough.”
Jason Lemkin Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 3:22 Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 22, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
O'Driscoll: Figma trades at 10x forward sales with over 30% growth
“It's still a twelve billion dollar market cap company. It's still growing. Yeah, it's still trading at 10 times forward sales, growing at 30% plus.”
Rory O'Driscoll Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 4:17 Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 9, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Acharya: Software markets are shifting from execution tools to thinking tools like Figma
“That, by the way, is sort of ahead of where I think the market is going in terms of moving from products focused on execution, which today are being subsumed by coding agents, to markets focused on thinking, right? And I think a lot of the thinking work is goi…”
Anish Acharya Feb 9, 2026 ▶ 45:26 a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 19, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Lemkin: Figma missed $300M-$400M in AI prototyping revenue to Replit and Lovable
“That lovable and replet should not be owning product prototyping and development for product people. Figma should own this. They don't. They missed a whole generation. Here. And that's the, that ties into all of this. Figma, can't argue with Figma today. That …”
Jason Lemkin Feb 19, 2026 ▶ 33:44 Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 26, 2026 bearish
Prediction Held up
Lemkin: Claude Code will aggressively attack Figma's business this year
“So I believe it will aggressively attack parts of Figma this year, even though they're key partners.”
Jason Lemkin Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 19:13 Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 26, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lemkin: AI tools will equal human design quality within 18 months
“I would just be shocked if at some point in the next eight to 18 months, a Claude Code can't automatically make designs that are as elegant, as beautiful as a designer can. Because you already can in some custom LLMs for images, you can build epic images. I ju…”
Jason Lemkin Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 1:02:50 Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 26, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Stebbings: Figma reported $1.2B ARR and 40% YoY growth in Q4
“Figma came out with their Q four, 20, 25 earnings. They were very good. Accelerating growth at 1.2 billion in ARR, growing 40% year on year versus 38% year on year in Q three, so up there. Amazing retention of 10,000 dollar plus customers, 97% GRR, a 136% NDR.…”
Harry Stebbings Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 1:00:08 Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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
Mar 12, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Lemkin: Figma is no longer a world-class product after Make release
“After using Make, I cannot do Figma. I cannot do Figma after make. This is not a world-class product.”
Jason Lemkin Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 1:08:05 Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | The Data Center Arms Race | The Ultimate Stock Picks · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 16, 2026 positive
Opinion
Rajaram: Figma's key strength was intra-company collaborative sharing
“And so, when I saw Figma, the power of Figma I felt was, it was not just that a person could use it, but it was much easier to share with other people in your company.”
Gokul Rajaram Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 3:31 Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 16, 2026
Disclosure
Rajaram held Figma angel investment for 13 years until IPO
“As an angel, I used to hold till IPO. So Figma had many liquidity opportunities during the years, but I kept, kept holding it for 13 years till it went public.”
Gokul Rajaram Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 1:03:24 Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 16, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Rajaram achieved a 500x to 1,000x return on his Figma angel investment
“Five of, between 500 and a thousand X at the time of IPO, but it has sadly gone down since then.”
Gokul Rajaram Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 1:15:28 Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Figma supports 500,000 customers with roughly 300 quota-carrying sales reps
“You've got a half million customers you're trying to support with, I don't know, 300 quarter carrying reps, whatever the number is, like, you're pretty freaking efficient already.”
Sean Boscanian Mar 21, 2026 ▶ 37:11 This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2026 negative
Insight
Over-assigning sales quotas gives management a false sense of security
“I don't necessarily believe that you completely de-risk your year by making sure that you've dished out enough quota to cover your target. I think that's a bit of like of a false, you know sense of comfort.”
Sean Boscanian Mar 21, 2026 ▶ 23:32 This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2026
Disclosure
Figma's revenue organization is approaching 500 people, says CRO Boscanian
“We're probably pushing 500 in my whole org. That's not just sales quota carriers, but if you include some of the supporting resources, et cetera, yeah.”
Sean Boscanian Mar 21, 2026 ▶ 36:41 This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2026 bullish
Prediction Held up
Figma will monetize its AI features through a credit-based pricing model
“We're gonna start monetizing our AI usage through credits as well.”
Sean Boscanian Mar 21, 2026 ▶ 12:06 This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Most Figma sales reps operate a traditional enterprise sales motion
“SMB, that's the PLG motion, everything else is sales led. Everything else we do, mid-market, enterprise strat, which is the majority of our team and the reps that we have, it's running like a very traditional SaaS sales business.”
Sean Boscanian Mar 21, 2026 ▶ 19:28 This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Figma has never organized its sales force into industry vertical teams
“At Figma we to this day have not actually done any type of like industry based teams”
Sean Boscanian Mar 21, 2026 ▶ 58:35 This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Figma requires sales candidates to complete practical discovery and demo exercises
“So we always make people do, you know, a challenge or an exercise at the end that requires some heavy lifting in terms of like learning a bit about our business but also showing off your, you know, basic sales skills run discovery.”
Sean Boscanian Mar 21, 2026 ▶ 30:11 This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2026
Disclosure
Figma enterprise reps focus on account expansion over net-new logos
“The job of a sales rep, they get their book of accounts, right? And every year we've created more focus around them and we've done, we've had to do ruthless prioritization on like which accounts are we going to really go deep on. But once they get their accoun…”
Sean Boscanian Mar 21, 2026 ▶ 19:56 This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2026
Insight
Figma assigns enterprise reps to accounts before formal product training
“I think for an enterprise rep, one of the things we want to do is kind of as quickly as possible, even before we teach them all the product stuff and the sales skills, which hopefully they're bringing some with them. We kind of want to get them into their acco…”
Sean Boscanian Mar 21, 2026 ▶ 40:55 This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2026
Disclosure
Figma's sales team uses MEDDIC and a custom value selling methodology
“That's an the ability to actually manage your pipeline effectively you know, leveraging our medic framework. That's when you're doing discovery, we teach calm. We call it Figma value selling, but are you leveraging Our methodology, how you're, when you're doin…”
Sean Boscanian Mar 21, 2026 ▶ 50:31 This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2026 positive
Insight
Outbound sales teams should receive more favorable quotas to attract talent
“If where you're ending up is, hey, we have an opportunity, we love what we're doing, but we have to push it to the market, and we have to do that in a very proactive, strategic, outbound way and we need x type of people to do that, then index towards giving pe…”
Sean Boscanian Mar 21, 2026 ▶ 55:28 This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2026
Assertion Supported
Majority of Figma's sales team activity is outbound today, says Boscanian
“Oh yeah. A hundred percent. Not, not a hundred percent of our business up on, but a hundred percent in that the, what the sales team is doing at Figma is majority outbound today.”
Sean Boscanian Mar 21, 2026 ▶ 7:06 This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2026
Disclosure
Figma sets average enterprise sales quotas at 3x to 4x OTE
“An average enterprise rep here might have three to four X their OTE for a quota, and we're happy with that.”
Sean Boscanian Mar 21, 2026 ▶ 0:18 This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2026
Insight
Management frequently sets sales quotas too high, admits Figma CRO
“I agree, with the exception of, what if we got it wrong? What if we got the quota wrong? What if we set it too high? And that happens. It truly does.”
Sean Boscanian Mar 21, 2026 ▶ 52:06 This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2026 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Figma is shifting sales onboarding back to in-person, classroom-style training
“We're also moving to classroom style. In person. And, you know, in the COVID days, we kind of got away from that, but we're going back to classroom style. We're going back to in person.”
Sean Boscanian Mar 21, 2026 ▶ 42:28 This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2026
Insight
Demos test candidate perseverance while discovery reveals curiosity, says Boscanian
“And personally, I'm much more interested in how they do, frankly, on the discovery side of that, because I think, you know, it's probably a little bit unfair to expect someone to be doing this amazing demo of your product with just a few days of playing around…”
Sean Boscanian Mar 21, 2026 ▶ 31:09 This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2026
Insight
Prioritize deal-closing experience over industry domain knowledge when hiring sales reps
“I, if those are the two options to choose from, I would take the person with the experience doing the deal, because I think the industry experience you can teach with, to the person who's got, you know, the right willingness to learn and the curiosity, and obv…”
Sean Boscanian Mar 21, 2026 ▶ 27:07 This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2026 negative
Insight
Candidates who pit competing offers against a company pose retention risks
“If at the end of a process, you know, with Figma spending a couple of weeks doing all this work if you're not like, all right, I'm in. I want to do this. It tends to be a little bit of a yellow flag for me. And if they're actively trying to pit you against a, …”
Sean Boscanian Mar 21, 2026 ▶ 32:47 This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2026
Disclosure
Figma operates without a traditional customer success team, says CRO Boscanian
“We don't actually have a traditional CS team.”
Sean Boscanian Mar 21, 2026 ▶ 7:52 This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2026
Disclosure
Figma operates without traditional sales development representatives, says CRO Boscanian
“We also don't have traditional SDRs.”
Sean Boscanian Mar 21, 2026 ▶ 13:34 This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Most Figma customers originally onboarded via online credit card purchases
“Like most of our customers, even today, at some point they started by going online with a credit card. Someone bought a couple of licenses, started sharing links internally, and that's how things took off and that.”
Sean Boscanian Mar 21, 2026 ▶ 5:23 This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2026 negative
Opinion
Figma CRO has a visceral negative reaction to jumpy sales resumes
“I have a usually a pretty visceral reaction to people who are super jumpy, you know, in terms of a resume.”
Sean Boscanian Mar 21, 2026 ▶ 28:24 This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2026
Disclosure
Figma shifted its SDR team to manage small transactional renewals
“Recently we made a new shift, and we said even that we're gonna kind of take the focus away from, and we're using them now in a more pointed way on existing customers and managing small you know, transactional renewals to get those off the plates of some of th…”
Sean Boscanian Mar 21, 2026 ▶ 15:12 This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Figma's net dollar retention rate recently increased from 131% to 136%
“We added five points on our net retention, pretty significant when I think went from 131% to 136%.”
Sean Boscanian Mar 21, 2026 ▶ 11:54 This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 26, 2026 bearish
Disclosure
Lemkin: Refuses to buy Figma stock at $12B valuation
“No, I don't see any evidence of turning, of these agentic investments working. I would rather miss, miss out on the bounce right off the hard deck than invest in something that may fall below it.”
Jason Lemkin Mar 26, 2026 ▶ 53:18 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
Mar 26, 2026 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2036
Lemkin: Odds Google builds a long-term Figma competitor approach zero
“I think the odds that they desire, decide to build a Figma competitor from this for a decade approach zero.”
Jason Lemkin Mar 26, 2026 ▶ 43:43 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
Apr 23, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lemkin: Claude Design will maim Figma's growth within 4 to 8 quarters
“Those both can be true that we won't see it in Figma's numbers next quarter. And that over four, six, eight quarters, it will maim its growth.”
Jason Lemkin Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 57:23 Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 23, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Lemkin: Rippling's financial performance far surpasses Figma's
“It's better than Figma by the numbers, right? It's better than Figma by the numbers by far. By far.”
Jason Lemkin Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 1:12:44 Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 23, 2026 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Apr 2031
Lemkin: Anthropic will never build direct Figma or Adobe competitors
“But I do not believe Anthropic will ever build a direct Figma or Illustrator or Adobe competitor. They don't have to maim them.”
Jason Lemkin Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 55:24 Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 30, 2026 bearish
Disclosure
Stebbings: Sold Figma position at a 40% loss
“While you guys were doing my Skydio, I just sold Figma, 40% down.”
Harry Stebbings Apr 30, 2026 ▶ 1:26:00 Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 21, 2026 negative
Opinion
Lemkin: Figma lost $500M+ failing to launch design-to-code natively
“What Figma missed is I create this design. It's beautiful. I loop in the product team to approve it. And then I click a button, which it says push into full production prototype. And it just works. It works like, and you can, and the irony is Replit and Lovabl…”
Jason Lemkin May 21, 2026 ▶ 26:48 Anthropic Raises $30BN at $900BN Price | SpaceX Files S1: How Does it Trade | Cerebras Smashes Day 1 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 21, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Lemkin: Software companies smaller than Figma cannot achieve a successful IPO
“I don't think anything sub Figma can IPO and have a decent IPO.”
Jason Lemkin May 21, 2026 ▶ 49:28 Anthropic Raises $30BN at $900BN Price | SpaceX Files S1: How Does it Trade | Cerebras Smashes Day 1 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 6, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Lauritsen: Legora still uses Figma for design system consistency and UI standards
“We still use Figma, yes. I know where you're going with this. As soon as you start building a system that's larger than something very small, you want consistency, and you want to have a design language and all that kind of stuff, and so you need somewhere to …”
Jacob Lauritzen Jun 6, 2026 ▶ 14:24 Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups | Legora CTO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 27, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Adding LLMs to Existing Design Tools Will Beat AI-Native Platforms
“So with Lovable, it's much harder because they haven't built the human centric software. I think it's much easier to add the LLM on top, especially as it becomes commoditized by all these major models.”
Paul Erlang Jun 27, 2026 ▶ 28:54 How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 16, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Lemkin: Figma is now tracking million-dollar enterprise software deals
“Figma's tracking million dollar deals, right?”
Jason Lemkin Jul 16, 2026 ▶ 25:12 Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 25, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Nitski: Mercor team is shifting away from Figma to Claude
“To be honest, I let the team do whatever is best for them, and this is a trend I've just observed amongst almost everybody, is that cloud design has done a great job. People really like using it, it's easy to use, and we've just had a natural movement towards …”
Osvald Nitski Jul 25, 2026 ▶ 18:01 Mercor Head of Product on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs
Aug 2, 2026 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stebbings: Claude Design is starting to eat away at Figma
“We see Claude Design has actually really started to eat away at Figma.”
Harry Stebbings Aug 2, 2026 ▶ 55:15 Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market
Aug 9, 2026 neutral
Insight
Atallah: Anthropic launched Claude Design to hook enterprise design teams
“This is my theory behind why like Claude design was strategic. While it's not like a massive amount of revenue for Anthropic, like not probably not a significant amount of revenue. It does get the design team to really care about Anthropic models. And so the c…”
Alex Atallah Aug 9, 2026 ▶ 26:53 OpenRouter CEO: Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating the US | Why Enterprises Fear OpenAI & Anthropic
Aug 12, 2026 negative
What-if
Figma missed market share later captured by Replit and Lovable
“I firmly believe a big chunk of Replit and Lovable could have been Figma's if they'd done it.”
Jason Lemkin Aug 12, 2026 ▶ 16:43 Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
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