Dylan Field at a glance
Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
Role | Co-founder, CEO and President of Figma since October 2012; Chair since April 2025 (SEC) |
Age | 34, per Figma’s 2026 proxy statement (SEC) |
Grew up | Penngrove, California, near Petaluma in Sonoma County (Stratechery) |
Education | Brown University for two and a half years, before a Thiel Fellowship (SEC) |
Co-founder | Evan Wallace, a Brown classmate |
Voting control | 72.3% of Figma’s votes, March 31, 2026 (SEC) |
Net worth | $1.2B, Forbes real-time estimate, Nov 2, 2026 (Forbes); $6.1B after the IPO (Bloomberg) |
Public profiles | X @zoink; LinkedIn /in/dylanfield |
Figma CEO email address: how to reach Dylan Field
Dylan Field doesn’t publish an email address. His X bio, his Figma author page and the channels Figma lists for investors name only X and LinkedIn (checked Nov 2, 2026). For the company, press requests go to press@figma.com (Figma).
Channel | Address | Note |
|---|---|---|
X | Bio: “eliminate the gap between imagination and reality”; 349,000 followers (Nov 2, 2026) | |
Listed on Lenny’s Podcast | ||
Figma, press | press@figma.com | |
Figma, legal | legal@figma.com |
Figma email address pattern
Most providers report {f}{last}@figma.com for Figma staff (Clay), but Prospeo finds {first}{last}@ almost as often (Prospeo).
Format | Example (fictional name: Maya Chen) | What providers report | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
{f}{last}@figma.com | mchen@figma.com | Top pattern at Clay and Emailchaser; 43.1% at Prospeo | Most widely reported |
{first}{last}@figma.com | mayachen@figma.com | 46.6% at Prospeo | Common |
{first}@figma.com | maya@figma.com | 81.8% at Add to CRM | Reported by one provider |
Before emailing any pattern-based address, run it through a verifier: a bounce hurts deliverability for every later send. All Figma patterns, domains and official inboxes are on the Figma email format page.
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Career timeline
Date | Milestone | Source |
|---|---|---|
Oct 15, 2026 | Speaks at Figma’s first Config India | |
Jul 31, 2025 | Takes Figma public on the NYSE | |
Apr 2025 | Becomes Chair of Figma’s board | |
Dec 18, 2023 | Abandons the Adobe deal; Figma receives a $1B fee | |
Sep 15, 2022 | Agrees to sell Figma to Adobe for $20B | |
Jun 24, 2021 | Raises a Series E at $10B | |
Dec 3, 2015 | Announces Figma, with $18M raised | |
Jun 2013 | Raises a $3.8M seed round | |
Oct 2012 | Becomes CEO of the newly incorporated Figma | |
Jun 2012 | Leaves Brown for a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship | |
Before 2012 | Interns at O’Reilly Media, LinkedIn and Flipboard |
From a Brown CS lab to a $68 billion debut
Field grew up in Penngrove, in Sonoma County; his mother was an elementary school teacher and his father a respiratory therapist (Stratechery). He studied at Brown, where in April 2011 his classmate Evan Wallace showed him what WebGL could do in a browser (Figma). In 2012, at 20, he accepted $100,000 from Peter Thiel to leave college (Press Democrat), and the two started Figma.
In 2013 the plan was “an in-browser photo editor” (TechCrunch). Figma was announced only in December 2015, “after three years of silence and hard work” (Figma), as a collaborative interface design tool.
In September 2022 he agreed to sell Figma to Adobe for $20 billion (CNBC); 15 months later the deal was abandoned for lack of a path to regulatory approval (Figma). “Those 16 months felt like an eternity,” he told Stratechery (Stratechery). Figma went public instead, and on July 31, 2025 closed its first day worth almost $68 billion (CNBC).
In his own words
“Design is how you win or lose. Design is bigger than design — and the world needs more designers in charge.”
— Founder letter in Figma’s IPO filing, 2025 (SEC)
“Right now we’re in the MS-DOS era for AI, where the prompt is the interface.”
— Founder letter in Figma’s IPO filing, 2025 (SEC)
“It’s not the outcome we had hoped for, but despite thousands of hours spent with regulators around the world detailing differences between our businesses, our products, and the markets we serve, we no longer see a path toward regulatory approval of the deal.”
— On ending the Adobe deal, December 18, 2023 (Figma)
“In a world where code is becoming commoditized, design is increasingly the differentiator.”
— Config India, October 15, 2026 (Figma)
Figma’s leadership team
Person | Role | Since |
|---|---|---|
Dylan Field | Co-founder; CEO and President; Chair of the board (SEC) | CEO since Oct 2012; Chair since Apr 2025 |
Praveer Melwani | Chief financial officer (SEC) | Mar 2022 |
Kris Rasmussen | Chief technology officer (SEC) | Mar 2022 |
Shaunt Voskanian | Chief revenue officer (SEC) | Oct 2021 |
Brendan Mulligan | General counsel (SEC) | Feb 2024 |
Evan Wallace | Co-founder; at Figma from 2012 to 2021 (Evan Wallace) | 2012 |
Full company profile, including revenue and stock: Figma in 2026: revenue, valuation, funding, CEO.
