Evan Wallace

“The two answers that we came up with that we also felt deep conviction in. One was drones and quadcopters. The other one was WebGL. And Evan, after about a month or so, said, hey, like, not into drones for all sorts of various reasons. That was kind of the one…”

“We really started in earnest August whereas we started talking about it more December of 20 11. So it took a while to get to the point where we started. And then from there, I would say it was at least June or July of 2013 before we went all in on, okay, let's…”

“I think it was, for sure, would have been the best one in the market. And I'm, my thesis was right, by the way. Look at the exponential curve of memes since 2012. Yeah we would have made some money there.”

“The actual, like, first or second day of doing the fellowship, starting to work with Evan, I flew out to New York with my mom to be on the Today Show, and I had no idea what we're doing yet, because we hadn't barely started.”

“The first thing we looked at was to the face swapping. So basically, you know, I got your face, I got my face, how can I take your face and swap it onto my face? Kind of a cool party trick. But with something called Poisson blending, which Evan found a way to …”

“At some point later on, we literally create a meme creator. That was the darkest week of Figma.”

“I mean, truly like a person, you know, I think especially for engineers, they'll know is Evan Wallace over at Figma. Like that guy's an unnaturally good, like engineer, like truly one of a kind, I think of Charles in a very, very similar class. I just think he…”

“Our first text rendering in Figma came from the moon generator.”

“We can talk about that if you want to know, like, making a decision of when to go to stealth, because we almost didn't, because it didn't have multiplayer.”