In 2012, Dylan Field and Evan Wallace co-founded Figma with the idea that web design could live in a browser. The two s…
By a16z · Design
In 2012, Dylan Field and Evan Wallace co-founded Figma with the idea that web design could live in a browser. The two spent four years building in stealth before publicly launching what would become the defining design tool of the modern internet. Figma grew from a single browser-based design app into a full platform spanning FigJam, Dev Mode, Slides, and most recently Figma Make, an AI-driven product builder. Today, Field sits at the center of a unique moment in software: a designer-first…
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