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The tech investment climate feels more like New York City (97 degrees) today than San Francisco (67 degrees). That is to say, ...
Figma founder CEO Dylan Field has disclosed that he plans to sell 2.35 million shares. At the midrange he’ll be cashing out ...
Dylan Field, CEO at Figma on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage in San Francisco on October 20, 2022. Image Credit: Haje Kamps / TechCrunch A month after Adobe announced its plans for acquiring Figma ...
Meet Dylan Field, the 30-year-old college dropout who built Figma, one of Silicon Valley's most beloved companies, and is set to become a billionaire when it sells for $20 billion to Adobe ...
Dylan Field onstage at Figma’s Config conference in San Francisco on June 21, 2023 [Photo: Courtesy of Figma] Regardless of what happens to the deal, a lot is riding on the future of Figma.
How Field went from intern to CEO Field has been interested in design since middle school, but studied computer science at Brown. While still an undergraduate, he started to question if his plan ...
But Field is a decade into his founder’s journey, and we’re also interested in his evolution as a leader. Figma places high value on inclusion, creativity and fun — those values are at the ...
Four years ago, Dylan Field was living in a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco’s gritty Mission District, where he would stop for a $1 cup of coffee on his way to work. The college dropout ...
Dylan Field dropped out of an Ivy League school in 2012 to take a grant from the billionaire Peter Thiel and start a software company called Figma. A decade later, Field’s stake in the company ...
Lots to talk about — life after the Adobe deal went away, of course, but much more interestingly there’s a lot going on with the web, design, and AI, and Figma’s right in the middle of it ...