1. Dylan Field was born on 1992 and is an American technology executive and co-founder of Figma, a web-based vector graphics editing software company.
20 Facts About Dylan Field
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Dylan Field moved to San Francisco with Wallace, where the two spent four years preparing the software for its first public release in 2016.
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In 2015, Dylan Field was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list.
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Dylan Field's father worked as a respiratory therapist at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital and his mother as a resource specialist teacher at Thomas Page Elementary School.
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Dylan Field participated in the arts as a child, acting with credits in TV ads for eToys.
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Dylan Field attended high school at Technology High School, a magnet school for science, technology, engineering, and math on the campus of Sonoma State University.
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Dylan Field worked with social media researcher Danah Boyd, who ultimately wrote one of Field's letters of recommendation for college.
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In 2009, Dylan Field enrolled at Brown University, where he studied computer science.
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Dylan Field was an involved member of Brown's computer science department: In 2011, he organized a hackathon in which 150students participated, and starting in late 2011, he co-chaired Brown's CS Departmental Undergraduate Group.
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At his LinkedIn internship, Dylan Field helped devise a social-impact program.
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Around that time, Dylan Field met Evan Wallace, another computer science undergraduate studying at Brown; the two decided they wanted to start a company together.
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One year ahead of Dylan Field at Brown, Wallace studied graphics, and was a teaching assistant in the computer science department.
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Dylan Field was awarded the Thiel Fellowship in May2012 and dropped out of Brown to accept it.
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Dylan Field had originally intended to pursue a degree in math and computer science and graduate after four years.
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Dylan Field was named a Thiel Fellow in 2012, earning him $100,000 in exchange for taking a leave of absence from college.
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In summer 2012 Dylan Field co-founded Figma with Evan Wallace, who joined Dylan Field in California after completing his degree in computer science that Spring.
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At one point early on in Figma's existence, Dylan Field said he was faced with a potential exodus of disaffected employees.
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Dylan Field told the Business Insider reporter that the long availability as a free product helped it acquire its first customers.
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Dylan Field is an angel investor in venture-backed startups, including OpenSea, Loom, Warp, and Netlify.
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Dylan Field has received several accolades in connection with his co-founding of Figma.