FIGMA CEO'S PATH FROM COLLEGE DROPOUT AND THIEL FELLOW TO TECH BILLIONAIRE

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Dylan Field dropped out of Brown University over a decade ago to join the Thiel Fellowship program and co-founded design software company Figma. Figma's stock more than tripled in its NYSE debut this week, making Field's stake worth approximately $6.6 billion after a failed $20 billion Adobe acquisition. The company now focuses on AI-powered features like Figma Make, which uses Anthropic's Claude model to generate coded prototypes from design prompts.