Dylan Field: Scaling companies cannot operate fully synchronously or fully asynchronously
Dylan Field · 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 · at 17:43
Dylan Field, founder and CEO of Figma, shares his mental model on organizational communication and the trade-offs between synchronous and asynchronous work when scaling.
0:00 / 0:09exact quote · 9.8s
720p mp4 · rendered on demand · StarZero watermark
“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.”
quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading: filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard (the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →
More from Dylan Field
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…”
Silicon Valley will lose its tech monopoly by 2029, predicts Dylan Field
“I think the dirty secret of Silicon Valley is that no one in Silicon Valley thinks that Silicon Valley is going to be what it is today in 10 years. And so, I think we're in this period of change right now where more and more companies are coming up across the …”
Adobe killing Fireworks drove Sketch's early success, says Figma CEO
“At the time, there were not many competitors out there that were interesting. I think Sketch, it was launched at the time, but not many people were using it. Really, fireworks being killed was what put the wind and sketches sales.”
Dylan Field: Reluctance to delegate means you haven't found the right person
“I think if you think you can do it better, you haven't found the right person yet.”