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Dylan Field took Figma public in one of the wildest IPOs in recent memory. He insists the real story is the rise of design ...
In the savagely satirical HBO series Silicon Valley, the fictional investor Russ Hanneman boasts of being in the “three-comma club” (there are three commas in a billion). Obnoxious, abrasive and ...
Software design company Figma’s successful IPO has propelled its founder and CEO, Dylan Field, into the ranks of college ...
Dylan Field, the CEO of Figma, recently became a billionaire without a college degree, sparking debate about the need for ...
Figma founder CEO Dylan Field has disclosed that he plans to sell 2.35 million shares. At the midrange he’ll be cashing out of over $62 million. (That might be a much higher num ...
Index Ventures’s Danny Rimer—whose investments also include Etsy, Dropbox, Discord, and Dream Games—led Figma’s 2013 seed ...
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 ...
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 believed that selling his software company to a bigger rival would be good for competition and consumers. Regulators saw it differently. By Michael J. de la Merced Dylan Field, Figma ...
But the deal is far more expensive for Adobe, due to a historic retention package for CEO Dylan Field and employees worth $2.3 billion at the time of announcement — more than $1 billion of that ...