Devin Finzer: Figma founder Dylan Field is a close mentor on OpenSea
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Devin Finzer is the co-founder and CEO of NFT marketplace OpenSea. He is discussing key advisors who have guided him during OpenSea's rapid scaling.
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“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 on company building, but also on, sort of, like, NFT strategy as well.”
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