Figma’s Story, Part 1: My Thiel Fellowship Application (2011)
When I talk with entrepreneurs that are just starting off, I’m often asked about how Evan and I came up with the idea for Figma. Here’s the short answer: During my Flipboard internship I was frustrated using Fireworks every day.
A picture from the Thiel Fellowship Finalist Weekend in 2012 When I talk with entrepreneurs that are just starting off, I’m often asked about how Evan and I came up with the idea for Figma. Here’s the short answer: During my Flipboard internship I was frustrated using Fireworks every day. Why couldn’t design tools be more like Google Docs? So Evan and I decided to use WebGL to build a cloud first design tool in the browser. While this story is technically true, it’s just one small part of a much longer saga. On the path to the Figma of today, there were so many twists and turns — we did not wa
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