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Field: Designers fiercely rejected Figma's 2016 multiplayer launch
“I remember when we finally launched the GA in October of 2016, I mean, the comments we got were like, if this is the future of design, I'm changing careers. You know, that person commented about it and said, a camel is a horse designed by committee. So it's li…”
Dylan Field Mar 13, 2025 ▶ 24:38 Figma's Dylan Field: Exploring the idea maze, vibe coding, and the power of “locking in” · Y Combinator
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Dylan Field: Figma announced acquisition of Payload CMS
“In terms of open source, we actually just announced today the acquisition of Payload CMS, which is an open source project, and I'm really excited about what we can do there and how we can support open source more.”
Dylan Field Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 33:05 Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator
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Field: Figma's first customers were Notion and Coda
“You know, like our first customers were Notion and Coda. Coda was called Krypton at the time.”
Dylan Field Mar 13, 2025 ▶ 21:48 Figma's Dylan Field: Exploring the idea maze, vibe coding, and the power of “locking in” · Y Combinator
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Field: Figma Employs 1,700 People in a Hybrid Model
“We're hybrid 1700 people now, which is wild.”
Dylan Field Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 1:10 Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator
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Field: Figma CEO Dylan Field was a child actor before tech
“When I was growing up, I was a child actor, not like a child actor that got into like anything really cool that you know about, like commercials and some TV and stuff, but as part of that, you audition constantly, and basically you constantly get rejected.”
Dylan Field Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 12:58 Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator
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