{"podcast":{"title":"Uncapped with Jack Altman","slug":"uncapped-with-jack-altman-7251833","podcast_index_feed_id":7251833,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/PDP4191604852","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/4f59e046-fc65-11ef-95e4-6f1fe969e3f6/image/f476884f6c283614adac9f78c6a206ec.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Alt Capital","episode_count":54,"summary":"Conversations with people I admire about things I’m genuinely interested in.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T04:17:37.114625+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uncapped-with-jack-altman-7251833"},"episode":{"title":"Uncapped #31 | Dylan Field from Figma","slug":"uncapped-31-dylan-field-from-figma","published_at":"2025-11-05T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uncapped-with-jack-altman-7251833/uncapped-31-dylan-field-from-figma","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uncapped-with-jack-altman-7251833","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/PDP9238689056.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/PDP9238689056.mp3","summary":"Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma, a design software company that went public in July 2025. Founded in 2012, Figma transformed how people design, prototype, and build products together. After a $20 billion acquisition attempt by Adobe collapsed in 2022 because of regulators, Dylan helped Figma rebound stronger than ever. Just three years later, Figma listed its shares at nearly $20 billion and its stock price more than tripled on its first trading day. A few highlights: Expanding a sleepy market Merging of designers and product roles Counter-narrative to polarizing CEOs If models get better, we have to Remembering Brat Summer --- Timestamps: (0:00) Intro (0:37) The first 5 years of Figma (5:14) Slow build vs AI gold rush (13:01) The role of the human designer (18:55) Small companies with $1B in revenue (21:28) Expanding a sleepy market (27:49) Leading with empathy as CEO (32:51) Connecting with young people (41:37) Getting stronger despite Adobe (48:43) AI impacting Figma’s roadmap (52:02) Final bastion of human designers --- More on Dylan: https://www.figma.com/ https://x.com/zoink More on Jack: https://www.altcap.com/ https://x.com/jaltma --- https://linktr.ee/uncappedpod Email: friends@uncappedpod.com","meta_description":"Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma, a design software company that went public in July 2025. Founded in 2012, Figma transformed how people des…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3399,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/uncapped-with-jack-altman-7251833/episodes/uncapped-31-dylan-field-from-figma/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uncapped-with-jack-altman-7251833/uncapped-31-dylan-field-from-figma.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}