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In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

Figma CEO: From Idea to IPO, Design at Scale and AI’s Impact on Creativity

In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

Norges Bank Investment Management

Norges Bank, Nicolai Tangen, Business, In Good Company

4.7 • 236 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of In Good Company, Nicolai Tangen speaks with Dylan Field, founder and CEO of Figma, about the ideas behind one of the most influential design platforms in the world. Field shares lessons from founding Figma at 19, navigating years of iteration before launch, and scaling with a strong product culture. They discuss taste, craft, and community, how AI is changing the creative process, and what it means to lead with optimism in a rapidly evolving tech landscape

In Good Company is hosted by Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management. New full episodes every Wednesday, and don't miss our Highlight episodes every Friday. 

 

The production team for this episode includes Isabelle Karlsson and PLAN-B's Niklas Figenschau Johansen, Sebastian Langvik-Hansen and Pål Huuse. Background research was conducted by Oscar Hjelde.

 


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0:00.0

Hi everybody. Welcome to In Good Company. I'm Nicola Hangen, the CEO of the Norwegian Sobun Wealth Fund.

0:06.7

And today, we have the founder and CEO of Figma visiting us, Dylan Field. Now, quite incredibly,

0:14.7

Dylan founded Figma when he was 19 years old and now 14 years later. Figma had one of the biggest

0:20.0

IPOs of 2025. So, warm

0:23.8

welcome. Thank you for having me. So, Dylan, we have to start. What does Figma do?

0:38.3

Yes. So Figma is a platform that helps you go from an idea in your head to a production application in the software space.

0:46.3

But also, once you ship something, once you ship some software, you want to then market it.

0:51.3

And we also help with that too.

0:53.3

We help you get your brand out there and make it so you can create more then market it. And we also help with that too. We help you get your brand out there

0:55.5

and make it so you can create more collateral around it. And ultimately, it's not just some one-year

1:00.5

process where you have an idea and you get to finish product and you're done. Perhaps in the

1:05.8

industrial design world, we were talking about that before we started. That's more of what it is.

1:11.0

But in software, it's always a loop.

1:12.6

And you're always iterating and you're learning

1:14.6

and you're trying to figure out how do I evolve this thing

1:16.6

that I've created with my team.

1:18.6

And we try to make it very collaborative

1:21.6

so that designers can bring their entire team in to do that.

1:25.6

So let's know I run a cup factory.

1:28.3

Okay, so now I'm going to design a new cup.

1:31.3

Here we go. We are like four people who want to design a cup.

1:34.3

How do we use your software?

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