Dylan Field: preference

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…We have an awesome guest post by Mihika that I'll point to in the show notes, where she describes the whole process of building Figma slides, also an awesome podcast episode, if folks aren't familiar with her. I talked to Mihika and a bunch of other people actually preparing for this conversation to see where I want to poke at. The co-founder of Notion, Akshay Kothari, had a really good quote that I want to share and I have a question about this. He said, "Dylan is among the nicest humans, probably has an NPS of 100. He's incredibly warm and yet he's got this crazy drive energy underneath. He's a total killer. Just look at the success of Figma in the business. This combination is quite rare. How does he manage to do both?" Well, it's very kind of Akshay. I don't think my NPS is a hundred, but it's very kind. Look, I think I've always loved competition and games. I definitely self-select into games that I think I can win. For that reason, I was never very athletic and stayed away from the team sports as a kid because nothing drives me more crazy than there's a game I'm playing and I cannot win it. Prior to Figma, yeah, I definitely care very much about doing well for just that own sense of competition that we have, but also for the company. Also, all the competitors that I've met along the way are wonderful people. They have the same often thing that they're trying to go for. The same change they want to make in the world, around empowering folks and advocating for design. End of the day they're almost entirely an amazing set of humans as you get to know them. Yeah, I think that there's no reason you can't have good sportsmanship while being competitive. I feel like the Dylan we're seeing in this conversation and in every conversation is the Dylan that everyone sees internally. There's not another hardcore Dylan that just everyone hates. That's what I think Akshay's quote tells us.…

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