Dylan Field pitches seed-stage Figma to Daniel Gross

Figma CEO & founder Dylan Field pitches his company to Daniel Gross as if back in 2013. A special feature of our June Demo Livestream.
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[@playGEMJI]

Wow! It made my day 🙌 This inspiring pitch will help many young designpreneurs.

[@kurmasaideep4072]

How many are here after knowing figma got acquired by Adobe for 20bn

[@upsidedownChad]

yes

[@funsark]

39 thousand of us!

[@krisb-travel]

Yep actually from hearing that news in a podcast

[@keonnee7923]

Didn’t even know what Figma was

[@busimo]

what did you gain after knowing that?

[@yelwinsoe]

I love that the slide is hosted on localhost:8000 😂

[@jordanburgess]

This is inspiring to see - Such a great pitch. It's so pleasing to see what Figma has become.

[@safol123]

love love this, this is humbling!

[@morgan-n5e]

congrats to the founders and RIP to FIgma

[@toulasantha]

Exactly Adobe will kill it

[@wender_maker]

adobe style loading

[@souleater0815]

Nope. XD will be killed. Figma will live on.

[@ayanbanerjee4119]

i would say if Figma wasn't there i would not have been a designer today, the best design tool

[@bonaventureBarry]

Love this pitch and the product is cool.

[@juantelle1]

Came here after hearing about the Adobe acquisition

[@LOIaccelerator]

This video is a MBA of its own

[@tafaramakaza]

This sounds like a great idea. I hope this guy makes it one day.

[@someguy1169]

Not sure if you're kidding, but he did make it. $2B in his pockets.

[@busimo]

@@someguy1169 The fact that you can't figure if he's kidding or not

[@someguy1169]

@@busimo We don't know Mr Makaza. He may be braindead.

[@tafaramakaza]

@@someguy1169 20B actually

[@muhammadsalim825]

For all this video working like Inspiration.

[@LocTran]

The Thiel Fellowship sounds like an amazing program!

[@uminhtetoo]

Thank you so much for sharing.

[@jasonlyle3804]

any chance we can see the OG 2013 pitch video?

[@mysticalnewt2012]

This whole acquisition is really something but i’m really interested to hear more about their ex-competitor ligma and where they fit in to this

[@rcastrovexler2]

I came from Twitter

[@qertsm]

whats ligma?

[@0xLife]

@@qertsm ligmyballs

[@mysticalnewt2012]

@@qertsm Really interesting backstory, Ligma Borals Corporation is the parent company of Figma's ex-competitor. The two CEO's are actually brothers.

[@Niko-ku2cr]

@@qertsmligma balls

[@joyfractal]

such clarity

[@jumbajambaddada191]

If all this image processing tech is part of the Adobe buyout, the valuation makes even more sense. Running Photoshop natively (and well) in the browser is something Adobe has wanted to do for 10 years now.

[@doity]

Never considered that. Honestly adobe needs to overhaul all theri products. They're so clunky now. Maybe this acquisition will help them do that.

[@KeithRodri]

That's what I was thinking. Wouldn't it be crazy if this buyout meant all of adobe's apps turned into Figma-like apps, instead of the opposite most of us dread?

[@souleater0815]

So he pitched a new version of Photoshop? Looks nothing like Figma today. But boy got PAID.

[@mohammedmatar4341]

Sweet tutorial fam !

[@MrAhgohgoh]

Two of the most interesting things today are privacy and ________? Did anyone catch the 2nd area?

[@egonvanpraet]

Fertility

[@collinvaughn2040]

@@egonvanpraet fertility?

[@domaino.domains]

Great

[@insertacoin738]

the face he made at fertility lol

[@thaislima2093]

Foreal man.

[@geoffreyschuchardt5350]

Would’ve been great if this fixed their folder structure, their UI project priority, and other very very basic tools such are the way you put things in things and where they are positioned with margin and padding ect

[@ahruf]

Adobe Figma

[@mash312]

🥹so cool to see baby figma! This is awesome

[@avisdhirsamanta3717]

privacy and ?

[@KleinOfficial]

figma balls lol

[@funsark]

How many are here from MFM?

[@alexshibu3263]

yaaa

[@OnlineSupportTeam]

Was this video sponsored by Nike?

[@chiquita683]

Just finessed Adobe

[@tamanna4697]

Adobe 🤝

[@irfnrdh]

joix

[@jamesjara4638]

9:42 ADOBE MENTION , wou!

[@justthej]

Hmmm. What a sell out.

[@fredfred9094]

Why are you angry?

[@LiamBClosing]

Sold out for $20b. Wars are fought for less than that 😂 Almost anybody would sell.

[@justthej]

@@fredfred9094 not angry....a bit dissapointed like others in the field of design.

[@justthej]

@@LiamBClosing maybe. Adobe stock isn’t doing so well. They over paid. And the figma user base is 🤬