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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Figma comes up
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
- ▶ 0:03 Harry Stebbings Now, following on from our episode last week with Hopin, I wanted to stay on the theme of interviewing the founders of the fastest growing companies in the world, and one growing faster than ever before is Figma, and I'm so thrilled to… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:47 Harry Stebbings Figma.
- ▶ 3:04 Harry Stebbings It's so good to see you again, but I do want to start on, for those that maybe missed our first episode, how did you make your way into the world of startups, and how did you come to found the game changer that is Figma?
- ▶ 4:33 Harry Stebbings I do have to ask you, because it really was very early in your career starting Figma, and you really were a very young leader, and bluntly, something that always, not troubled me, but it's always very much on my mind is kind of the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:13 Harry Stebbings Um, yeah, no, I, I do want to ask, before we move into Figma as a product, I spoke to quite a few of your investors before, and they said, you know, Dylan's fascinating when it comes to education and the future of education. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:43 Harry Stebbings I do want to touch on the Figma product, though, because we both were actually waxing lyric about Kevin Kwok's piece, which I think if you haven't read it, obviously, Dylan, you have done, but anyone listening, if you haven't, amazing. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:15 Dylan Field From a marketing standpoint, what we've found is that people really want Figma to always be improving. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:40 Harry Stebbings Lenny Rogitsky asked, how do you think about the success of the Figment plugin ecosystem? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:09 Harry Stebbings In terms of what COVID's done, I spoke to Peter Levine at Andreessen before the show, and he was like, you have to ask Dylan about the internal and external impacts of COVID on Figma. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:44 Dylan Field Do these synchronous dances in Figma.
- ▶ 20:45 Harry Stebbings You also have to get the talent in the door bluntly to manage the scaling as well, and it's really interesting comparisons that a lot of your investors made, they were like, Figma, it's now like Stripe, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:37 Dylan Field One thing that I think has been a big shift in mindset for me is that in the start of Figma, I really thought of the board as this 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:24 Harry Stebbings Has that changed your mindset at all to Figma and to operating? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:19 Harry Stebbings What does Figma look like in, like, 20, 30?
- ▶ 28:09 Harry Stebbings I have to say, I just could not be more excited for the future ahead with Dylan leading Figma. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Reid Hoffman on Investing in Airbnb and Passing on Stripe, The Different Styles of Truly Great Leaders, How To Think Through Ownership and Price in Venture & How To Ensure Venture Partnerships Always Have Trust and a Learning Mindset
- ▶ 0:15 Harry Stebbings On the investing side, he's a partner at Greylock, one of the leading venture firms of the last two decades, with a portfolio including the likes of Facebook, Airbnb, Dropbox, Figma, and many more incredible companies.
20VC: Intercom Founder, Eoghan McCabe on How To Deal with the Weight of Expectation, Having Your Identity Tied To Your Company, How To Be Your Authentic Self Even with Stakeholders & Why There Are No Rules
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings He's also invested in dozens of companies, including Stripe, Figma, Superhuman, and Coda.
20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings However, most recently, as I mentioned, Sahil's made waves, raising one of the first rolling funds on AngelList, with his being six million dollars per year, and in the past, Sahil has backed the likes of Lambda School, Figma, HelloSign,…
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: Elad Gil on Startup Offense and Defence in a Recession, How The Venture Landscape Has Shifted & All Things Valuations, Secondaries and Layoffs
20VC: How Roam Research Analyse Product Design, Team-Building, The Future of Collaboration Tools & Applying Tesla Go-To-Market To Roam with Conor White-Sullivan, Founder & CEO @ Roam Research
- ▶ 22:05 unnamed speaker Like, they'll use their Kindle highlights, and then maybe they've got some dedicated software for reading PDFs and for building mind maps of the papers that they're reading, and then using something like Figma for laying out a bunch of…
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
- ▶ 12:59 Sarah Cannon And I think there are a number of others pitch air table, quill figma linear in that bucket.
- ▶ 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.