Dylan Field, every mention
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every year anyone Brett Berson 43Kyle Parrish 15Sheila Joglekar Vashee 14Yuhki Yamashita 5
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Dylan Field comes up
Playing it safe with marketing is the riskiest thing you can do | Sheila Joglekar Vashee (Figma CMO)
- ▶ 4:51 Sheila Joglekar Vashee When you're a CMO, you have to take a step back and say, if I'm on the board, or if I'm, you know, sitting in like the CEO Dylan's shoes,
- ▶ 18:29 Sheila Joglekar Vashee The whole company is built around that, starting from Dylan, who every day will respond to people on social who are asking questions or, or, um, giving feedback on what we're building. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:51 Brett Berson Let's say, let's say Dylan's a tastemaker. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:56 Sheila Joglekar Vashee Someone who's done that really well is Dylan, frankly. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:12 Sheila Joglekar Vashee Actually, this is a push from Dylan that I think about all the time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:52 Sheila Joglekar Vashee At Figma, that's very low tolerance, and that comes from Dylan, and very low tolerance for politics, and I appreciate that.
- ▶ 57:59 Sheila Joglekar Vashee For Figma, you know, product is really kind of the center of the company, and that is, like, coming from Dylan, that's how he thinks, so we've kind of built everything around that.
- ▶ 1:00:34 Brett Berson So in this case, how is Dylan specifically involved with marketing? 10 times in the scene
How Figma taps into taste, simplicity, and storytelling | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO)
- ▶ 3:30 Yuhki Yamashita So that bet that Evan and Dylan took on the technology was probably the first thing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:23 Yuhki Yamashita And you know, as an example, like Dylan was a design intern at Flipboard, right?
- ▶ 1:00:38 Yuhki Yamashita And in fact, you know, in this past config, which is a user conference, Dylan actually shared this tweet that people tweeted at him last year, which is like, Figma is getting hard.
Inside Figma’s early days: How to build a world-class sales org | Kyle Parrish (VP of Sales)
- ▶ 1:51 Brett Berson He also has advice for founders who are looking to make this key first sales hire and share some of the specific things Figma's CEO Dylan Field did
- ▶ 19:06 Kyle Parrish So Dylan and Claire, who was on your show in the past and a few other folks had been talking to customers and working with customers and converting customers over the years. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:48 Brett Berson When you were trying to build context and talking to Dylan and Claire and others, do you remember the types of things that you were asking?
- ▶ 25:23 Kyle Parrish So this is where, again, for me, and I think, you know, big part of probably Dylan bringing me in was hoping that experience would be relevant.
- ▶ 37:31 Kyle Parrish The other wrinkle I'll stay with Figma that was interesting, this is the first in my career, was that early on Dylan said we don't discount. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:46 Kyle Parrish Everything that Claire and Dylan and all of those folks that were involved in building the community nailed was really understanding what makes diners tick. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:28 Kyle Parrish And I think, you know, credit to Dylan. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:30 Brett Berson Each potential rep had to demo the product for you and Dylan and others.
- ▶ 56:47 Kyle Parrish So you would interview with Dylan. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:10 Brett Berson For founders who are hiring their first salesperson, what could they learn from how Dylan worked with you over the first couple of years? 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:46 Brett Berson Maybe other than curiosity, why do you think he's been so successful specifically? 10 times in the scene