Figma is shifting sales onboarding back to in-person, classroom-style training
Sean Boscanian · This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Mar 21, 2026 · at 42:28
Shaunt Voskanian is the Chief Revenue Officer at Figma. He discusses how Figma is restructuring its sales onboarding strategy after moving away from in-person instruction during the pandemic.
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“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.”
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