Figma CEO: From Idea to IPO, Design at Scale and AI’s Impact on Creativity

Hi everybody, welcome to In Good Company. I'm Nikola Tangen, the CEO of the Norwegian Soviet Wealth Fund, and today we have the founder and CEO of Figma visiting us, Dylan Field. Now quite incredibly, uh, Dylan founded Figma when he was 19 years old and now 14 years later, Figma had one of the biggest IPOs of 2025. So warm welcome. Thank you for having me.

So Dylan, we have to start. What does Figma do? Yes. So Figma is a platform that helps you go from an idea in your head to a production application in the software space. But also once you ship something, once you ship some software, you want to then market it.

And we also help with that too. We help you get your brand out there and make it so you can create more collateral around it. And ultimately, it's not just some linear process where you have an idea and you get to finish product and you're done. Perhaps in the industrial design world, we were talking about that before we started, that's more of what it is. But in software, it's always a loop and you're always iterating and you're learning and you're trying to figure out how do I evolve this thing that I've created with my team.

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