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Lemkin: Claude Code will aggressively attack Figma's business this year
“So I believe it will aggressively attack parts of Figma this year, even though they're key partners.”
Lemkin: Figma and AI coding tools will compete within 12 months
“Today, they're great partners. It doesn't make sense that they will be great partners for prototyping in 12 months. It makes no sense.”
Lemkin: Stripe, Figma, Chime, and Canva will IPO within 18 months
“Stripe, Figma Chime, the list of folks north of five hundred million, ok, Canva, three billion, that are gonna IPO in the next 18 months.”
Hamid: FTC and Lina Khan did not block the Adobe-Figma deal
“I don't think, ah, a lot of us put a lot of the blame on Lena Khan, poor Lena Khan because, you know, in our own experience, that's not, that was not the issue for Adobe Figma. It wasn't Lena, ah, or the FTC, ah, there were other issues. So I think it's broadl…”
Gerstner: Sequoia's early Figma investment yielded 100x while late-stage yielded 2x
“If you look at the difference between the Sequoia round in Figma or the durable round in Figma, right? It's the difference between, you know, having a hundred plus X outcome and a two X outcome.”
Figma will monetize its AI features through a credit-based pricing model
“We're gonna start monetizing our AI usage through credits as well.”
Majority of Figma's sales team activity is outbound today, says Boscanian
“Oh yeah. A hundred percent. Not, not a hundred percent of our business up on, but a hundred percent in that the, what the sales team is doing at Figma is majority outbound today.”
Jason Lemkin: Public software multiples jump sharply above 20% and 30% growth
“If you're growing less than 20% of a cherry pick basket, 5.1 X AR, Wix is lower. It's not in my basket. 20 to 30, 11.8 X AR. And then the 30% plus, which is Rubrik, Palantir and Figma, average 23.7 X AR, but Palantir and Rubrik push that up.”
Randle: Figma investment at 100x ARR generated a 30-40x return
“One of the first hundred X deals, I think, in SaaS, and people were like, a hundred X ARR, what the hell? And obviously it ended up being, you know, I don't know, 30, 40 X, unbelievable investment.”
Index Ventures Is the Largest Shareholder in Figma, Dream Games, and Wiz
“Largest shareholder in Figma, largest shareholder in Dream Games, largest shareholder in Wiz you know, second largest shareholder in Scale.ai, Revolut.”
O'Driscoll: Figma will price well and pop on its IPO
“My sense is it's hard not to imagine this thing pricing and then popping very well because the structure of how they went at it is such that they will almost certainly be that money left on the table feeling”
Yamashita: Figma's early Make Design feature merely matched prompts to templates
“We had worked on some AI features the year before, which at the time we had called make design, where you can go from a prompt and it would generate some designs on the canvas. And it was a pretty simple feature. You write some prompts and then it would use so…”
Yamashita: Code is the primary source of truth in Figma Make
“In Figma make, source of truth is code, and we figure out how to take your design, translate it into code, and then let you iterate via code, because code is so expressive.”
Lemkin: Figma competed only with an abandoned $30M Adobe product line
“Figma was directly destroying a thirty million dollar product line that Adobe had abandoned, ok, with XD sketch or whatever it's called.”
Figma's $10B valuation is just the floor for the company
“You know, we're now a ten billion dollar company with the most recent fundraise, but we also genuinely think that that's just the floor. I mean, Figma is going to be a massive company and we're just getting started.”
Figma has never organized its sales force into industry vertical teams
“At Figma we to this day have not actually done any type of like industry based teams”
Figma requires sales candidates to complete practical discovery and demo exercises
“So we always make people do, you know, a challenge or an exercise at the end that requires some heavy lifting in terms of like learning a bit about our business but also showing off your, you know, basic sales skills run discovery.”
Figma's net dollar retention rate recently increased from 131% to 136%
“We added five points on our net retention, pretty significant when I think went from 131% to 136%.”
Stebbings: Figma reported $1.2B ARR and 40% YoY growth in Q4
“Figma came out with their Q four, 20, 25 earnings. They were very good. Accelerating growth at 1.2 billion in ARR, growing 40% year on year versus 38% year on year in Q three, so up there. Amazing retention of 10,000 dollar plus customers, 97% GRR, a 136% NDR.…”
O'Driscoll: Figma trades at 10x forward sales with over 30% growth
“It's still a twelve billion dollar market cap company. It's still growing. Yeah, it's still trading at 10 times forward sales, growing at 30% plus.”
O'Driscoll: Netskope won't see a massive first-day IPO pop like Figma
“The answer, of course, is no, because I believe, as I said earlier, in reversion to the mean, and Figma had the largest bounce of any large cap IPO since, I think, 2000. So I sincerely doubt they'll copy that.”
Halligan: Zendesk never secured long-only investors due to shaky IPO timing
“Zendesk at the time went out. And it was just, it was timing, and it was just a shaky week that they went out, and they just didn't get, they didn't get the big long onlys, and they had a good story, and they didn't get them, and they never really got them. Th…”
O'Driscoll: Four VC firms will each return $1B from Figma
“The reality of four VC firms, each making a billion dollars, that'll focus the mind.”
O'Driscoll: Figma reached Rule of 80 with 40%+ free cash flow margins
“And you didn't even mention one of the more impressive ones, which is kind of the profitability and free cash flow margins last quarter, like, 40% plus. So, upping positive, free cash flow positive, growing 46%. So, again, rough math on an iPhone on a small sc…”
O'Driscoll: Figma will IPO soon rather than stay private
“My guess is it totally makes sense for them to get a great IPO under their belt. In a way that, and not do the strike thing of stay private for another three or four years.”
Yamashita: Figma tracks user reliance via ND7s, targeting 5 days weekly
“Our first product, Figma Design, has always set the bar for what it means to be a kind of tool that people are deeply, deeply reliant on. That's kind of the golden standard... We call it ND sevens, like how many days in a week? That people are using your produ…”
Yamashita: Dylan Field mapped design Twitter graphs to recruit early users
“One of the first things he did was he took design Twitter, he visualized it as a graph, and then figured out which people designers are following the most, and then went to those designers to get feedback on Figma and get them excited about Figma. And that was…”
Hamid: Sketch and InVision were significantly larger than Figma early on
“But Sketch and InVision are way bigger than Figma for a while.”
Grady: Figma had $4.6M ARR at Sequoia's Series C
“So the series C and Figma, when Figma had, I think, 4.6 million of ARR, that was not at all obvious, but Andrew had spent three years Studying the design market and had a real point of view.”
Figma was at $4M ARR when Sequoia invested at $400M valuation
“I remember when they, it's public, but they were at four million in ARR when Andrew did them at 400.”
Dylan Field: Figma will permanently support remote work long term
“For Figma, internally, pre-COVID, we were entirely in person, and now we're supporting remote work, of course, just like, you know, everyone else does, but also we're permanently doing that long term.”
IBM's engineer-to-designer ratio dropped from 72:1 to 8:1 in five years
“For IBM, for example, we saw a shift from 72 engineers to every one designer in 2012. Again, 72 engineers to every one designer. And then in 2017, five years later, they were at eight engineers to every one designer across the company. And on mobile, they were…”
Lemkin: Figma is now tracking million-dollar enterprise software deals
“Figma's tracking million dollar deals, right?”
O'Driscoll: Figma's IPO involves only 6% primary share dilution
“I think they're only raising around six percent primary share dilution.”
Figma took over three years to build its initial alpha
“So, so, so an example is in the case of Figma, clearly it was going to take three years plus To come up with an alpha. But that was more a question of, were they going to be able to deliver the product of significance enough to be relevant and to dominate the …”
Figma's sales organization is approaching 100 employees
“As the sales organ Figma is rounding a hundred people and growing steadily.”