Dylan Field
37 statements across 6 episodes · 17 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jan 8, 2023 by Yuhki Yamashita · said 75 times in 7 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Claire Butler (32), Lenny Rachitsky (28), Yuhki Yamashita (7), Mohika (Mihika) (4), Tara Seshan (2), Jason Lemkin (1), Grant Lee (1)
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2026 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 8 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2023 63 mentions in 2 episodes 32 per episode
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Jan 8, 2023 neutral
Figma leadership created a 'Concerning Tweets' Slack channel for Dylan Field
“So Chris, RCTL, and I kind of, like, intervened. We created this new channel, private channel called Concerning Tweets. And it's just, you know, for this small group of us that Dylan can kind of, like, drop those. And then these are tweets that aren't going vi…”
Jan 8, 2023 neutral
Sep 7, 2023
CEO Dylan Field built a custom Twitter scraper to map design influencers
“Dylan is also a great engineer. If you don't know that about him or a scrappy engineer who can figure things out. And he had this idea and he built this tool or the script, this scraper where he identified a couple of influencers in the design community. Like …”
Sep 7, 2023 positive
Users physically grabbing the demo laptop validated Figma's early launch readiness
“People, I remember, they were like, take the laptop out of Dylan's hands when he would start showing it because they wanted to play with it. And to me, when I started seeing designers do that, even if I wasn't sure if they'd use it as a team, even if I wasn't …”
Sep 7, 2023
Figma hosted an open Twitter Space to address the Adobe acquisition backlash
“And so I remember we decided that day that the next day we just had to have an open public forum where we could talk directly with our users and let them ask us any questions. And so we'd have the Twitter space the next day with Dylan and show Raji and Tom.”
Sep 7, 2023 neutral
Jan 25, 2024 positive
Rachitsky: Figma founders drove hours back to Coda just to fix Wi-Fi
“They ended up working very closely with Coda. I don't know if you know the story where they just wanted to make sure the Coda team, and it was called Krypton back then was very happy with Figma. And so they went to the office, they set them all up. They starte…”
Jun 30, 2024 neutral
Field: Figma's local decisions created overly complex global systems
“As I'm in conversation with a bunch of our product leaders at Figma, there's parts where it's like, okay, this thing is too complex as a system, and we made, like, all the right local decisions, and yet, together, they're too complex, and they're not working a…”
Jun 30, 2024
Field: Intuition is a hypothesis generator to debate and test against data
“I think intuition is like a hypothesis generator, and you're constantly generating these hypotheses, and others are generating hypotheses as well, and you then take these hypotheses, and you put them forward, and you debate them, And you try to find data to su…”
Jun 30, 2024 neutral
Jun 30, 2024 positive
Field: Figma found early users by mapping Twitter's design graph with PageRank
“So I kind of constructed this list of, like, here are the most central designers in the graph, but also then I, like, looked at their work, and the ones that I was really inspired by, and, like, as a total fanboy, and someone who, like, wanted to learn as much…”
Jun 30, 2024 positive
Jun 30, 2024
Jun 30, 2024 negative
Field: Figma's Pages feature is not the most elegant design solution
“I think I have deep skepticism about pages still. Like, I'm not sure they're like, if you could freeze time, And I could just go in with my team, work on Figma for a very long time. I'm not sure we'd come to the same implementation of Pages that we are at toda…”
Jun 30, 2024 positive
Field: Product, design, and engineering roles will continue to exist
“Probably everyone's learning to do a bit more of everyone else's job in this current moment. That said, I definitely think there's still immense value in product, immense value in design, immense value in engineering, and so I think those roles will continue t…”
Jun 30, 2024
Nov 20, 2024 neutral
Kapoor: Figma Slides hackathon demo was rejected despite company-wide excitement
“The first was Maker Week, which is our internal hackathon at Figma. This was the forum where I initially tried to get buy-in for the idea. I worked with a team, walked around the New York office, and convinced a bunch of designers and engineers to work on this…”
Oct 16, 2025
Oct 16, 2025 negative
Field: Leaders must examine timeline padding from first principles
“If timelines are maybe not well reasoned through from first principles and perhaps there's padding that has been, you know, well intentionally added by, you know, different folks you have to kind of understand fully, okay, what are the assumptions of how long …”
Oct 16, 2025
Oct 16, 2025 positive
Field: Founders should avoid Figma's slow timeline and ship faster
“Don't do that. Go faster. And the lesson is not, okay, how do I make the awesome thing? I'm going to sweat every detail and I'm never going to ship. The lesson is you just got something that you can have that people can see the vision of where you're going. Bu…”
Oct 16, 2025 positive
Oct 16, 2025 neutral
Oct 16, 2025 neutral
Field: 56% of non-designers now perform design-centric tasks regularly
“56% of non-designers said that they engage a lot or a great deal in at least one design-centric task. Like prototyping or visual brand exploration. And we'd actually done that question a year before with a similar respondent set, and it was up to all percentag…”
Oct 16, 2025 positive
Oct 16, 2025 bullish
Field: Designers will be the future leaders as software creation becomes easier
“I think in this world where software can be created more easily, design matters so much, and designers matter so much. I think designers are going to be the leaders of the future, and I think that more designers need to step into that leadership role”
Oct 16, 2025
Oct 16, 2025 positive
Field: Role blurring across design, engineering, and PM will accelerate
“The trend that we've been seeing for the past five years is a trend that it's gonna accelerate the next five years. And that's a shift to emergent of roles. I just think that we're seeing more designers, engineers, product managers, researchers, kind of all th…”
Oct 16, 2025 positive
Oct 16, 2025 positive
Oct 16, 2025 positive
Oct 16, 2025 bullish
Field: AI productivity gains have not reduced Figma's engineering hiring demand
“We are nowhere near, at least at Figma, ah, the point where our demand for development, for example, is satiated. Have we seen productivity increases? Yeah. Mild to moderate, but like, that is not something that has made our new head count we want for engineer…”
Oct 16, 2025 neutral
Field: Leadership is about understanding trade-offs, not default cheerleading
“And I think that too many people are of this instinct of like, rah, rah, you know, we always gotta be positive or something. And it's not about positive or negative. It's about, well, do we understand it? Like, have we had the hard conversations? Have we, like…”
Oct 16, 2025 positive
Field: Eliminating table-stakes blockers directly drove Figma's retention and activation gains
“The journey of making thing design was a lot of table stakes features had to be built, as well as the shiny coolest new stuff. And we literally at some point had a team that would, that was called blockers. And they just went in one by one, struck them down. A…”
Oct 16, 2025 positive
Oct 16, 2025 neutral
Oct 16, 2025 positive
Field: The best product designers can toggle their personal taste
“I think the best, you know, designers on the product side can turn on and off. They can go, I have my own taste. I know what I like. And then, okay, you're going for this. And that might be different than what I like, but I can match it.”