The browser is the most powerful distribution mechanism ever created. If your product runs in the browser, everyone in the world can use it instantly.

technologydistributionDylan Field, Figma CEO, Config 2023

We spent three years building the rendering engine before we had a product. Most startups would have died. But we knew if we got the foundation right, everything else would follow.

persistencestartupsDylan Field, interview with First Round Review 2020

Design is a team sport. The old model of a designer working alone in a downloaded app and then emailing a PNG was broken from day one.

designcollaborationDylan Field, Config keynote 2022

Free viewers was the most important product decision we ever made. When everyone can see the work, everyone cares about design.

businessstrategyDylan Field, podcast interview 2021

I dropped out of college at 20 with a Thiel Fellowship and no idea what to build. It took pivoting from drones to flight search to design tools before we found it.

startupsentrepreneurshipDylan Field, interview 2019

Adobe paying a billion-dollar breakup fee and Figma keeping the money is the most expensive compliment anyone has ever received.

businesscompetitionTech industry commentary on Figma-Adobe collapse, 2023