Framer’s CEOs at a glance
Fact | Koen Bok | Jorn van Dijk |
|---|---|---|
Role | Co-founder and CEO; the founding CEO | Co-founder and CEO; ran product until 2018 |
Framer’s About page | “Co-founder and CEO” (Framer) | “Co-founder and CEO” |
Background | Designer and programmer; wrote Framer.js | Graphic designer: design school, then art academy |
Before Framer | Founded Sofa in Amsterdam; product designer at Facebook, 2011–2013 | Sofa’s first employee and art director; product designer at Facebook, 2011–2013 |
Also runs | Festina, an early-stage fund, with van Dijk | Festina, with Bok |
Based in | Amsterdam and Barcelona | The Netherlands |
None published | None published | |
X |
Framer CEO email address: how to reach Koen Bok and Jorn van Dijk
Neither founder publishes an email address. Bok’s website, koenbok.com, says “drop me a line” and links to his X, Telegram and LinkedIn accounts (koenbok.com); van Dijk’s, jornvandijk.com, links to Festina and his writing (jornvandijk.com). Both are most active on X. Framer staff mostly use {first}@framer.com, such as maya@framer.com for a fictional Maya Chen; when a first name is already taken, they usually add the last name: maya.chen@framer.com. Sites built with Framer, on framer.website, framer.app or framer.ai addresses, belong to Framer’s customers, not to Framer.
Channel | Koen Bok | Jorn van Dijk |
|---|---|---|
X | @koenbok, about 100,000 followers | @jornvandijk, about 22,000 followers |
linkedin.com/in/koen-bok-029592137 | linkedin.com/in/jorn-vandijk | |
Website | koenbok.com | jornvandijk.com, with his notes on design and AI |
GitHub | koenbok | None |
Framer email address pattern
Framer staff mostly use {first}@framer.com, such as maya@framer.com for a fictional Maya Chen; when a first name is already taken, they usually add the last name: maya.chen@framer.com. Sites built with Framer, on framer.website, framer.app or framer.ai addresses, belong to Framer’s customers, not to Framer.
Format | Example (fictional name: Maya Chen) | Who uses it | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
{first}@framer.com | maya@framer.com | The founders and most staff, 2017 to 2026 | Most common (80%) |
{first}.{last}@framer.com | maya.chen@framer.com | Staff whose first name was already taken, and some others | Second (13%) |
{first}.{initials}@framer.com | maya.mc@framer.com | A few staff with a common first name | Rare |
{first}@motif.co | maya@motif.co | Framer’s first staff, before 2017 | Old domain, not in use |
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Who is the CEO of Framer?
Both founders. Bok was Framer’s first CEO and still signs its SEC filings and press releases as CEO. In 2018, with growth stalled, the two swapped jobs, Bok taking over the product and van Dijk the commercial side; “intentional chaos to see what would happen,” van Dijk called it (Foundation Capital). Van Dijk was being described as Framer’s CEO by May 2023, and Framer’s About page now gives each of them the title “Co-founder and CEO”.
Career timeline
Date | Milestone |
|---|---|
Jun 16, 2026 | Launch Framer 3.0, with AI agents |
Aug 28, 2025 | Raise $100 million at a $2 billion valuation (Framer) |
May 2023 | Van Dijk described as Framer’s CEO |
May 24, 2022 | Relaunch Framer as a website builder |
2018 | Launch Framer X; swap product and commercial roles; $24 million Series B |
Nov 7, 2017 | Bok announces an $8 million Series A led by Accel |
2014 | Launch Framer in Amsterdam |
Jul 26, 2013 | Both leave Facebook (The Next Web) |
Dec 20, 2012 | Bok starts Framer.js, an open-source prototyping library (GitHub) |
Jun 2011 | Facebook hires the Sofa team; they move to Palo Alto |
2006 | Sofa launches Checkout, a point-of-sale app for the Mac |
Koen Bok
Bok calls himself “half designer, half programmer and a little bit of an entrepreneur.” He founded Sofa, an Amsterdam studio that made Mac apps such as Checkout, Versions and Kaleidoscope and won two Apple Design Awards. Facebook hired the team in 2011, and Bok worked there as a product designer on messages, ads and video. Frustrated at pitching interactive ideas with slides, he wrote Framer.js, and after leaving Facebook in 2013 the pair started Framer around it (Webdesigner Depot).
He led Framer through its design-tool years and, after the 2018 swap, its product, including the 2022 rebuild as a website builder. “We’ve been break-even for the past year,” he said when Framer raised at $2 billion (TechCrunch). He still writes code in public on GitHub, and his LinkedIn lists the University of Amsterdam.
Jorn van Dijk
Van Dijk trained as a graphic designer, at design school for about four years and then at art academy. He joined Sofa as its first employee, four months after Bok started it, and became its art director (Framer). At Framer he ran the product until 2018 and then the business side; he now speaks for Framer on stage and writes about design and AI on his website.
“Taste and quality go hand in hand. With AI, it’s super easy to make something sloppy very fast,” he told Business Insider in September 2025 (Business Insider).
Net worth and age
Neither Forbes nor Bloomberg publishes a net-worth estimate for either founder, and we don’t estimate one; Framer is private, and their stakes aren’t public. Neither has published a birth date or age.
In their own words
“Turns out, building an overnight success takes a lot of time.”
— Koen Bok, September 28, 2023 (X)
“If your site looks too vibe coded, I’m going to assume your product probably is too.”
— Koen Bok, July 11, 2026 (X)
“Most AI design tools give you output you can’t really edit unless you can code. Framer Agents work more like a senior designer would.”
— Koen Bok, June 2026 (CMO Tech)
“Using gives you opinions. Making gives you taste.”
— Jorn van Dijk, April 28, 2026 (jornvandijk.com)
“If you can create something that solves the problem you have, usually that is a pretty good place to start.”
— Jorn van Dijk, SXSW, 2026
Framer’s leadership
Person | Role |
|---|---|
Koen Bok | Co-founder and CEO |
Jorn van Dijk | Co-founder and CEO |
Oscar Carlsson | Chief revenue officer |
Bok and van Dijk also invest together through Festina, a fund for “software companies with world-class user experience design” (Festina). Framer’s revenue, funding and products are on the Framer company profile.






