Fantastic program for founders for the first time and those who have done it before. Amazing crew and experience

I’m not sure there is a more universally loved founder than Dylan Field.

Congrats on a spectacular IPO. Everyone in silicon valley is cheering because @Figma is a brilliant product, and @zoink is a kind leader who loves his customers.

nothing hits like an ipo in america. it’s the most iconic cultural moment that’s relatively infrequent. the most beautiful part about it is that only here does a company going public trigger a national feedback loop of inspiration. kids watch it, builders feel it, & the next gen catches fire. nowhere else turns liquidity into legacy like this.

How to Win the AI Talent War The talent war is justified and rational. But recruits are turning down 8- or 9-figure offers. So how do you win? In Civ VI terms, the win condition is not a Domination Victory but a Religious Victory: You win by converting others to your vision of the future, instilling faith in your ability to lead them to the promised land, and persuading them that you are destined to prevail. Money is necessary but not sufficient. (1/8)

Palmer Luckey explains why founders need to “make themselves obsolete” “When I started Oculus, I thought I was really good at everything… But I was only the best at a lot of things in our company because I had been negligent in my hiring process.” For example, Palmer was the best optical engineer in the company, but he realized that wasn’t something to be proud of. “That was a failure. I failed my company and my investors by making myself a critical dependency for any of our products. And the reality is I’m actually not a very good optical engineer. I was just the best at Oculus.” Once you start scaling your company, Palmer advises founders: “You have to make it your goal to make yourself obsolete, even at the things you like doing.. And that was really tough for me at Oculus because I realized I was basically playing house. I was sitting around doing things that way better people could be doing faster, more effectively.” He continues: “I give my managers the same mindset. I say, ‘Hey, your job is not to do things. It is to get them done in the best way possible. If that means you do it, then you need to do it… If that means that somebody else needs to get hired to do it, that’s what you need to do—even if you like doing it.’” Video source: @IMA_Network (2011)

Design is going public today. I feel immense gratitude to Evan, Figmates (past and present) and the design community. THANK YOU!

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Went through HF0 F24, grown 10x in revenue during the program. The power of being cut off from the noise and dropped into a focused container is everything for startups