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Parrish: Dylan Field instituted a strict no-discounting policy at Figma
“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. We're not discounting the product.”
Parrish: Figma prioritized early enterprise sales using usage data and Clearbit
“We got to build things from the ground up with our Salesforce instance using reverse ETL and all these products that were kind of merging in that time, 2018, 2019, so that we could actually pipe product data into Salesforce. So as we started building the buzz,…”
Parrish: Figma drove enterprise conversions by consolidating three to six design tools
“We were able to focus the sales motion and all the early enablement efforts on taking people from anywhere from three to six products into one all-in-one design platform, collaboration built in, and if we got them to do that, and they're already doing a little…”
Parrish: Early Figma segmented SMB and enterprise at 1,000 employees via Clearbit
“And so what we did when we went live in January and really started to scale hiring was just simply drew the line in a thousand employees and below was SMB mid-market. A thousand employees and greater was enterprise. It was easy to do because that's how Clearbi…”
Parrish: Figma repositioned from 'design tool' to 'design platform' within a year
“And so we shifted probably that like six to 12 months mark from calling it a design tool to calling it a design platform.”
Parrish: Early Figma sales reps attended internal design critiques
“We would actually go to design crits, design critiques, where designers and product managers would come in, and they would tear down things that people were building and shipping, and it was so interesting because we got to see all of the level of detail that …”