Figma
includes Figma Weave
10 statements across 3 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 30, 2025 by Gordon Ritter · said 51 times in 18 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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brought up most by Molly O'Shea (17), Dylan Field (17), Gordon Ritter (3), Danielle Strachman (3), Alfred Lin (3), Jordan Black (2), Art Levy (2), Mark Bhargava (1)
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2026 33 mentions in 8 episodes 4 per episode
- Dylan Field on the “Permanent Underclass of Zero Taste” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Senra Systems' $65M Series B: Fixing Aerospace & Defense's Biggest Bottleneck · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Mark Pincus: How to Spot a Fake CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- How Anthropic’s $100M Anthology Fund Works | Menlo Ventures · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- BlackRock's Tony Kim on AI's Next Winners? Chips, Memory, Robotics & Quantum · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Inference 101: SambaNova CEO Rodrigo Liang · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Andrew Feldman on Building a Chip 58x Larger Than Nvidia's · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Sequoia’s Alfred Lin: $10T Companies Are Coming · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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2025 18 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- Inside the $750B+ Thiel Fellowship · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- How Emergence Capital Bet Early on Zoom, Salesforce, Veeva—& Now Together.ai · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Alfred Lin, Inside Sequoia: Launching $200M Seed Fund & $750M Venture Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Brex’s Road to IPO and The Golden Age of M&A · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Windsurf: The Making of a Billion-Dollar AI Company | Leigh Marie Braswell, Kleiner Perkins · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- SpaceX, Stripe, Ramp, Anduril: Navigating Liquidity in Private Markets · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Inside General Catalyst’s $1.5B AI Roll-Up Machine · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Elad Gil of Gil Capital, Gil & Co. & Enigma Global · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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Everything said about Figma, oldest first
Jan 30, 2025
Ritter: High user engagement is effectively revenue because monetization inevitably follows
“The classic line now we say, When we call it the Figma effect is engagement is revenue. If people are using it heavily and love it, you might as well just be getting paid for it, even if you're not, because you'll find a way.”
Jan 30, 2025
Ritter: Emergence passed on early Figma because its revenue was too low
“Figma was one that we all, back to we work as a team, we all looked at Figma back when their revenue was low, but their engagement was incredibly high and spreading within organizations, and we just couldn't get comfortable. We were a little biased on if we're…”
Oct 27, 2025 negative
Evaluating early-stage startups solely on revenue is a lazy metric
“I think revenue as the metric is is a lazy way of looking at the problem. You have to look at the underlying metrics and don't forget some of the best companies in the world over time have taken time to build before they reach revenue.”
Jul 2, 2026 neutral
Jul 2, 2026 negative
Jul 2, 2026 positive
Field: Figma receives superior feedback because designers are trained in formal critique
“We are very lucky as a design company to have designers as users and customers because they are trained to give good feedback. So the feedback we get is so much better than like your average feedback that a company gets.”
Jul 2, 2026 positive
Jul 2, 2026 neutral
Field: Design AI evaluations are inherently non-verifiable and require human judgment
“And the evals we're running on stuff we're doing, stuff others are doing, like a lot of it is inherently non-verifiable. It's like, gotta be human judged at the end of the day. And you can set up more automatic methods for that, but you still have that human i…”
Jul 2, 2026 bullish
Field: Figma engineers multiply productivity tenfold using specialized AI agent swarms
“We have plenty of people at Figma that are and are getting great results though.
And it's amazing how much we can do there when you have folks that really understand the infrastructure that they're trying to build.
And they go and you know, they're already 10 …”
Jul 2, 2026 positive
Field: Figma Weave allows users to systematically steer generative AI outputs
“We have like something called Figma Weave, for example, where you can take model outputs and you can pass them through a workflow and really steer it along the way. And that can get you closer to, I think non-deterministic generative workflows that get closer …”