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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Figma comes up
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:18 Des Traynor And, and that's even kind of true for their Figma acquisition, with the exception of FigJam.
Ed Sim: Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive & Why Pricing Has Never Been Higher | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:57 Harry Stebbings But what's working often is unsustainable, and it's your sneaks, your figmas, your big IDs, which actually may take a bit longer.
Ely Lerner: Should Startups Hire Advisors & How much should they be paid? | E1075 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:01 Harry Stebbings So my question to you is then, if we have, like, defensive, it's reliability, it's security, it's small upgrades, isn't offensive a co-pilot strategy for Figma or a new product?
- ▶ 35:52 Ely Lerner To your point, if you're Figma and you're building your co-pilot,
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:34 Guillermo Rauch So if I have to create the next notion, the next superhuman, the next figma,
- ▶ 59:24 Guillermo Rauch Very much like what Google Docs or Figma gave you, which is like, now I can collaborate really fast with hyperlinks, and I can share around my entire organization what everybody's working on.
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. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:26 Miles Grimshaw And I think of myself as a biologist in that you're constantly looking for like new adaptations, new variants, um, and, and, and curious that, which is why the Figma thing annoys me so much of myself, right?
Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:36 Nikhil Basu Trivedi The first one that comes to mind that I've reflected on a few times over the last year is, uh, Figma. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:20 Harry Stebbings Total bullshit though, too, because it's like, I could invest in, you know, Figma and the Series E.
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…
Lauryn Isford: Product Growth Secrets from Facebook, Airtable, BlueBottle, Dropbox & Notion | E1037 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:27 Lauryn Isford I think Figma did a really great job with the launch of FigJam.
Rob Go: The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Venture Fund | E1029 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:52 Harry Stebbings I don't see pre, if you come out of a Figma, a Stripe, a Notion, you don't raise the 500 K to a million pre-seed round.
Noah Weiss: How to Master Product-Led Growth; Scaling PLG to Enterprise at Google & Slack | E1026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:01 Noah Weiss And if it's a designer, they'll be like walking through a prototype and stigma, or if it's an engineer, they'll be doing the same, but with a real life code.
- ▶ 37:02 Noah Weiss And if you start seeing that, so for example, I can imagine where I've heard interviews too and talked to folks at Figma, you know, they started seeing different pockets of a larger organization start adopting Figma. 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. 2 times in the scene
Hunter Somerville: Biggest Mistake LPs Make; Deep Dive into Secondary Markets | 20VC #985 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:14 Harry Stebbings The only, the only liquidity that seems to be coming is Figma, which delayed liquidity from, you know, transaction last year.
IAC CEO Joey Levin: Why Value Investing is BS; The Most Insane Element of SPACs | 20VC #982 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:28 Harry Stebbings I remember when Sequoia invested in Figma, it was rumored to be a four hundred million dollar valuation, which was a hundred times revenue, which was crazy at the time.
Hila Qu: The Ultimate Guide to Product Growth at Your Startup | 20VC #967 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jason Lemkin: WTF is Going On in VC? Are LPs Investing in New Funds? | 20VC #965 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:11 Jason Lemkin There are, there will be an occasional Figma, and that's why we invest, right?
- ▶ 25:42 Jason Lemkin If, if there's any chance, if there's any chance I can find another talk desk or Algolia or pipe drive or sales off, or if I can find a GitLab or Figma, like you should drop everything.
- ▶ 31:50 Jason Lemkin Highly paid ordinary jobs, and I don't think any of those people are going to go off and start the next Figma. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:43 Harry Stebbings Okay, could our saving grace for twenty-twenty-three be the distributions from Figma? 4 times in the scene