Dylan Field: belief

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…You made this other point about people moving on to other projects. What does that mean? Is it just like, okay, this investment is not worth our time anymore. Let's just put all these resources on different project. Or, is it more, this person's not right for this initiative, let's have him work on something else. Both. There are I think a lot of people who when you put them on the thing that they are super interested and fired up about will outperform your wildest imagination of what's possible. Put in the wrong effort where they're not motivated, yeah, they will be fine. If you can actually understand what people care about and then map them with their interests to the right projects, it is just so helpful. It sounds so obvious, but people don't always do it and we're not perfect to this either. We're always trying to make sure that we're learning and understanding folks in what they care about. Something that I always feel also about Figma is the culture is incredibly fun and interesting and unique and just good. Imagine a lot of people just joined Figma because the culture is so good. It's really hard to maintain a strong consistent culture over time. You said you've been around for 13 years now. I remember at Airbnb there was a lot of things that the founders did to maintain that culture and evolved it over time. I'm curious what you do to maintain that culture, keep it strong, and also just adjust as the company grows.…

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