Adobe paying a billion-dollar breakup fee and Figma keeping the money is the most expensive compliment anyone has ever received.
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.
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.
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.
Free viewers was the most important product decision we ever made. When everyone can see the work, everyone cares about design.
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.