Uncapped #31 | Dylan Field from Figma

Uncapped with Jack Altman

Nov 05, 2025•57 min

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Episode description

Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma, a design software company that went public in July 2025. Founded in 2012, Figma transformed how people design, prototype, and build products together. After a $20 billion acquisition attempt by Adobe collapsed in 2022 because of regulators, Dylan helped Figma rebound stronger than ever. Just three years later, Figma listed its shares at nearly $20 billion and its stock price more than tripled on its first trading day.

A few highlights:

Expanding a sleepy market
Merging of designers and product roles
Counter-narrative to polarizing CEOs
If models get better, we have to
Remembering Brat Summer

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Intro

(0:37) The first 5 years of Figma

(5:14) Slow build vs AI gold rush

(13:01) The role of the human designer

(18:55) Small companies with $1B in revenue

(21:28) Expanding a sleepy market

(27:49) Leading with empathy as CEO

(32:51) Connecting with young people

(41:37) Getting stronger despite Adobe

(48:43) AI impacting Figma’s roadmap

(52:02) Final bastion of human designers

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