Figma, every mention
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every year anyone Benedict Evans 25Toni Cowan-Brown 9
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Figma comes up
The end of the network effect
- ▶ 7:22 Benedict Evans You don't have the existing feature set that Google and Meta and Microsoft and Apple and Amazon and everybody else have where they can add it and Salesforce and, you know, Workday and, you know, Figma and everyone else, some of them, some…
What's your AI strategy?
- ▶ 11:50 Benedict Evans I mean, you, you start, okay, Figma.
GPT-4 is here, now what?
- ▶ 28:57 Benedict Evans So, you know, you have, um, you have Salesforce and you have Figma, um, as opposed to, you know, adding, sharing to, um,
Figma, unbundling and $20bn of antitrust
- ▶ 0:03 Toni Cowan-Brown Today we're talking about Figma and Adobe. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11 Benedict Evans So Figma is web-based graphics editing collaboration management. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:30 Benedict Evans And because it's much lighter weight and it had that kind of collaboration layer, what Figma did on the other hand was kind of unlock almost this whole, not just doing that, but kind of unlock this whole other industry. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:34 Benedict Evans But it wasn't structurally changing what it did in the way that Figment did.
- ▶ 13:55 Benedict Evans It's not that that's all the stuff that Figma has is not just a feature you can add.
- ▶ 25:04 Toni Cowan-Brown There's a thread to pull on also with what you just said there, which I found interesting because as I was doing a little bit of research, um, I went down a rabbit hole on, on how impressive Figma's customer retention rate is, and that… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:17 Benedict Evans And I think that's the sort of the step beyond Figma is how does 2 times in the scene
The Meta reality
- ▶ 23:07 Benedict Evans It is something like Figma or frame.io. 2 times in the scene
Games and Roblox
- ▶ 23:54 Benedict Evans I mean, if you look at like Figma, like the point of Figma is at very, very high level, instead of you having a spreadsheet that tracks all of the drafts and an email thread that tracks all the conversations, and then a folder with 48… 2 times in the scene
'Digital transformation' - beyond the silly slogan
- ▶ 11:43 Benedict Evans It's like a remote, it's like a very, it's a filing system, um, and instead you have Figma, um, 2 times in the scene
Shopify and digital transformation
- ▶ 16:11 Benedict Evans And, um, and Wix is now a huge business, and you also have, um, of course, Webflow is a new hot thing, which is sort of somewhere in between, in that you have more control over your layout, much more control over the layout than you do…