The process of building a startup is never straightforward, and that was especially true for Figma.The company’s co-founder Dylan Field originally dropped out of college to build a Drone company. He and his co-founder would change directions because they “couldn’t come up with a drone idea that didn’t hurt people or violate their privacy.” They decided to build “Photoshop in the browser,” based on a prototype Dylan’s co-founder Evan Wallace had built in the past. But photoshop has tons of use cases, so the company lacked focus for a while.When Dylan was raising a seed investment for the company, a well-known investor passed and told him, “I just don’t think you know what you’re doing yet.”Dylan killed off many of the features the company had built (animation, paint, photo editing) and got the team to focus on interface design.The team picked up momentum and went on to raise money from the investor who originally passed.The early days of Figma were challenging, but like Dylan says, “life is pretty good if you're building things you find interesting. Keep building and exploring. You may end up in a place you never expected.”How much has your startup idea changed from where you originally started?Interesting articles and videos about the company’s early days:Dylan Field’s Thiel Fellow application (drone company) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/figmas-story-part-1-my-thiel-fellowship-application-2011-dylan-field/Figma’s earliest pitch deck presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1UUVdN3kdQFigma’s full early-day story: https://ift.tt/3CQG5tR see hubwealthy.com/wealthy
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