What Dylan Field thinks about startups

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Co-founder and chief executive of Figma, the collaborative design platform he started in 2012 and took public in 2025.

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16 Oct 2025

Our readingFigma took five years to charge anyone and that was a mistake: ship something people can see the vision in, and get to market faster than we did.

Their wordsThe lesson is you just got to get something that you can that you can have that people can see the vision of where you're going. Um, but don't don't do what we did. Get to market faster. I wish we had.

↗Figma’s CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups | Dylan Fieldyoutube.com 8th of 22 in this recording