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Figma launched out of stealth entirely lacking its signature multiplayer functionality
“We can talk about that if you want to know, like, making a decision of when to go to stealth, because we almost didn't, because it didn't have multiplayer.”
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 …”
Switching the free tier to allow unlimited collaborators unlocked massive product growth
“Initially, the way that it worked was our starter team was that you could have like unlimited files, but only collaborate with two or three people... We realized that, wait a minute, like that's hurting us, and so we switched it, and now it's like you can have…”
Design system capabilities remain Figma's primary gating feature for enterprise tier upgrades
“Design systems are one of the main reasons you upgrade. From protocol or enterprise, right? It's like you're at this phase where you're getting more organized and more advanced, you're a bigger company. And so that's one of our big gating features for upgrade.”
Early critics threatened to quit the design industry over real-time collaboration features
“When we launched Desider News, which was a popular forum back in the day, the first response was, is this, if this is the future of design and changing careers, because designers did not want to be collaborative.”
Coda was Figma's very first committed enterprise user
“We had Coda. They were our first user and they were based in Palo Alto. Dylan and I drove down and demoed the product to them and they were the first ones. Their designer, Jeremy was like, yes, we'll take this on full time.”
Figma packages routine engineering quality week fixes into annual 'Little Big Updates'
“We did quality weeks with engineering, and then we decided a couple years ago, we had this idea where we're like, oh, when we package all of those quality updates up into one thing and launch them together, and we could even show like the tweet or the, you kno…”
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.”