WebGL
product on 12 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes · said 37 times in 16 episodes since 2018
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 7 
How I Built This 7 
Latent Space 5 
My First Million 5 
In Depth 3 
Lenny's Podcast 2 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 2 
Top Founders 2 
No Priors 1 
the a16z Podcast 1 
TBPN 1 
20VC 1
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2026 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 17 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- Figma: Dylan Field
- Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator
- Figma's Dylan Field: Exploring the idea maze, vibe coding, and the power of “locking in” · Y Combinator
- ⚡️ Building the AI Hardware Engineer with Matthias Wagner, Co-founder of Flux
- Weekly Recap: Gwyneth Paltrow Saves Astronomer, Figma’s IPO, Top AI Researchers Ranked
- Agent Experience: Building an Open Web for the AI Era
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2024 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- How Figma taps into taste, simplicity, and storytelling | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO)
- No Priors Ep. 92 | With StackBlitz CEO and Co-Founder Eric Simons
- Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Dylan Field live at Figma's Config: Intuition, simplicity, and the future of design
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2023 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2022 5 mentions in 1 episode
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6 statements about WebGL, every show
Field: Figma founders initially chose between building drones or WebGL software
“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…”
Starting Figma a few years earlier was impossible without WebGL
“I mean, if we had started this a few years earlier, we wouldn't have had WebGL.”
Kirkos: Quadratic runs in browser WebAssembly and renders via WebGL
“Everything in Quadratic is running in WebAssembly in the browser, and then the whole sheet is drawn in WebGL.”
Simons: Figma's original pitch was a WebGL 3D demo, not a design tool
“When they, their first pitch for Figma,
Was not like a design tool.
They didn't have a design tool.
They had a demo, like a WebGL demo of a three D ball dropping.
And the pitch was what browsers have gotten powerful enough to do meaningful three D graphics…”
GPU.js Outperforms V8 on Matrices Over 2,000 Dimensions
“It outperformed the base VA engine by running it on the WebGL. Well, especially when you scale past 2000 dimensions there is a gotcha because you have to transfer your variables from the JavaScript space to the GPU space. So anything less than a thousand by th…”