Sketch

product on 13 shows · 7 statements across 6 episodes · said 68 times in 36 episodes since 2016

Top Founders 16 20VC 13 In Depth 11 TBPN 6 Lenny's Podcast 5 Latent Space 4 the Startup Ideas Podcast 3 Invest Like the Best 3 Startups For the Rest of Us 2 A Product Market Fit Show 2 Startup Acquisition Stories 1 No Priors 1 the Official SaaStr Podcast 1

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Square’s Design Team Refused Gokul Rajaram’s Top-Down Push to Adopt Figma
“After I invested in Figma, I joined Square one and a half years later. I tried to basically push Figma down top-down into the design team, because I didn't design. I said, you've got to use Figma. The designers refused to use it. They were using a tool called …”
Gokul Rajaram Jan 29, 2026 ▶ 58:42 He Built The Revenue Engines for Google, Facebook & Square · Invest Like The Best
IN DEPTH Insight
Startups must sell product trajectory over feature parity when fighting incumbents
“When you end up in a conversation where it's just about features, this is not a place you want to be in, right? Because, well, technically, Sketch has more features, you know, or competitors have more features. And so, what we really needed to kind of, like, s…”
Yuhki Yamashita Dec 5, 2024 ▶ 46:59 How Figma taps into taste, simplicity, and storytelling | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO)
IN DEPTH Assertion Not checkable as stated
Designers initially used Figma reluctantly because Sketch was a better single-player tool
“Around the time when I joined, I like to describe Figma as designers reluctantly using it because they recognize the value of collaboration, but like they themselves, a single player tool, like they felt it was insufficient relative to sketch.”
Yuhki Yamashita Dec 5, 2024 ▶ 48:25 How Figma taps into taste, simplicity, and storytelling | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO)
20VC Assertion Supported
Hamid: Sketch and InVision were significantly larger than Figma early on
“But Sketch and InVision are way bigger than Figma for a while.”
Mamoon Hamid Oct 21, 2024 ▶ 38:09 Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
LaCivita: Figma, Adobe XD, and Sketch are not built specifically for mobile
“As many great design tools there are Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, they're sort of a mile wide and there is not really a platform built for people designing specifically for mobile products.”
Dan LaCivita Mar 14, 2022 ▶ 1:28 Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?
Malavich: Prefers Sketch over Figma due to workflow and speed limitations
“A lot of people use Figma right now, but I'm not a fan of Figma for various reasons. I work pretty fast and adjust the workflow doesn't work. So I work primarily in Sketch and we actually built the books in Sketch as well.”
Michael Malavich Jun 15, 2021 ▶ 6:13 Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next?
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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 Apr 19, 2019 ▶ 7:47 20VC: Figma Founder Dylan Field on The Biggest Mistakes Young Founders Most Often Make, How To Go Slow To Go Fast With Venture Dollars & How The Design Process Will Fundamentally Change Over The Next 5-10 Years

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