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Lawyers advised Dylan Field the Adobe acquisition would almost certainly clear
“Our lawyers said that it would almost certainly go through.”
Microsoft threatened to drop Figma unless it started charging for its product
“One of their design leaders came to our office and spent some real time with me, and he I think was sussing out, like, is, are they serious or not? And at the end, he goes, you know, your tool is free. I said, I know, I, we gotta make some improvements, I thin…”
Field: Good design will become an even bigger software differentiator
“I think what becomes differentiator is design. It's craft. It's how it works. It's brand. And as we look at the future, that's what I believe will still be the differentiator for software. It's going to be that craft. And I think that the value of design of go…”
Dylan Field appeared on the Today Show before deciding what Figma was
“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.”
Facebook acquired entire design agencies to grow its internal team
“You know, Facebook was acquiring entire design agencies to try to make their design team bigger.”
Field: Coda, Notion, Microsoft, and Uber were early Figma customers
“So, early customers like Coda Notion, Microsoft, Uber, MindBody, you know, there was a bunch that, that started to really use the platform.”
Field: Figma scaled from 100 to roughly 240 employees in 2020
“Yeah, the start of twenty-twenty, about a hundred employees. End of twenty-twenty, we were two 32 40.”