Dylan Field

“Lone Palm Labs / Retro...Raised $21M+ from Thrive Capital, Imaginary Ventures, and Figma CEO Dylan Field”

“Neros Technologies, "a three-year-old startup...that builds autonomous attack drones, counter-drone interceptors, and multi-drone control systems for U.S. and allied militaries, raised a $250 million Series C round at a $2.5 billion post-money valuation."”

“Figma traded down 20%, but they burned the tokens. Dylan was clear our gross margins are going to be significantly impaired going forward because our agentic products are being used. It's not identical, but they took the hit, right?”

“Dylan was clear our gross margins are going to be significantly impaired going forward because our agentic products are being used. It's not identical, but they took the hit, right?”

“Senra Systems just raised $65M Series B co-led by Lowercarbon Capital and Interlagos, with participating investors including Dylan Field.”

“Brinc...builds drones for police, fire, and other emergency-response agencies [raised] $125M led by Motorola Solutions...Dylan Field [participating as] an individual investor alongside Index Ventures”

“We were talking about making the Figma of wire harness design. And this was two years ago when we wanted to digitize a lot of the inputs into our factory.”

“If you just use an LLM for everything and have it literally tell you how to go build a thing, how to go design a thing, you're going to get something that it wants to give you... people that are just like, yeah, design me the thing — you're going to get the average and it's not going to stand out.”

“Tim O'Reilly would always talk about create more value than you capture. And I think that is extremely important... The definition of a platform is that you're creating even more value outside of the platform than you are from the platform itself.”

“I met Dylan Field in the seed round... He was like, designers are going to do real time collaboration on stuff. And I was like, I don't know, man.”

“Weekly active use of Figma's AI coding agent integration grew 5x in a single quarter.”

“Figma's own numbers support this: revenue grew 46% YoY to $333M, net dollar retention hit 139% (highest in 2+ years), and paid customers grew 54% YoY to ~690,000.”

“"When execution is cheap, design and creativity are the edge." — Dylan Field (posted publicly)”

“He referenced a live dispute between the U.S. government and Anthropic over the Mythos/Fable jailbreak as a live example of this unresolved definitional problem”

“Danielle Strachman: When Dylan was applying, we asked for SAT scores… He answered, 'this isn't important.'”

“We have something called Figma Weave, for example, where you can take model outputs and you can pass them through a workflow and really steer it along the way. And that can get you closer to, I think, non-deterministic generative workflows that get closer to intent and are systematic.”

“I think there's a big difference between, I don't know, Figma and Workday. I think the chances that Dylan's going to figure something out are much higher, a lot higher.”

“Referenced as a player”

“Panthalassa…builds autonomous ocean-based systems to generate wave power and run AI computing at sea, raised $140 million in a Series B round led by Peter Thiel, with John Doerr, TIME Ventures, SciFi Ventures…Founders Fund [and others] also piling on.”