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How Figma Became Design’s Hottest Startup, Valued At $10 Billion

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Dylan Field sculpted Figma into design software’s hottest startup, valued at $10 billion and No. 7 on the Cloud 100 list, by listening first and letting the market and customers guide its research and development.

Innovation Venture Capital Daily Cover How Figma Became Design’s Hottest Startup, Valued At $10 Billion Aug 10, 2021, 06:02am EDT Updated Sep 20, 2022, 11:34am EDT As Google Docs did for word processing and GitHub for code, so Dylan Field’s Figma is doing for design. Employees at companies like Netflix, AirBNB, Zoom and Discord are all users. BY ALEX KONRAD I n April, Dylan Field had his craziest day since he skipped out on Brown University to try his hand at startups nearly a decade ago. At the virtual conference of his design software company, Figma, popular with customers including Airbnb,

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