Dylan Field: belief

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…Not to put you on the spot, but is there someone that comes to mind when you think of, this person has great taste, that maybe isn't an obvious, like a Steve Jobs, maybe another leader? I don't know. There won't be an exhaustive list of all people that have amazing taste, but just anyone comes to mind that's a good example? We have a lot of people with great taste at Figma. I'm very lucky. I'll list a few. I think Damien, our creative director, Marcin on our product design team, Amber, our editor. But also, one person we've recently hired that I think has incredible taste is Loredana, she's our new chief design officer. Just came over from Meta and still getting to know her in the Figma context. I think this is her fourth day. We recruited her on the 26th of September, but already I've just seen so many examples where her taste is really, really strong. It's interesting actually, she grew up as a musician and then went into the field of design. Going back to that cross area, cross field discipline, connectivity, I definitely think there's something to that. To that point, it's wild how many people on this podcast were very serious musicians before they got into business and product. A lot of piano players, I'm noticing.…

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