app / uses
Figma
“And I work with Figma. I use the product. And I was using Figma for a long time.”
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app / uses
“And I work with Figma. I use the product. And I was using Figma for a long time.”
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15 transcript-backed records
01 / uncertainty
“There's like 10 of us in the office, we're chatting, and I look at some of the plans, some of the things they're working on, and I see that they were actually had some branding and positioning and things that the products, Figma, was going to be named Summit, that was the name. So the company was going to be Figma, and then the product suite, the product design tool was going to be Summit with the idea that eventually we'll have other tools and that could be like mountaintop or I don't know what the rule, they had a whole thing around the different things that could be for the future product set.”
02 / uncertainty
“Oh, I don't know specifically. Actually, Dylan specifically is such a hustler, especially in those early days.”
03 / belief
“One of the things that I feel like, at my role now at Figma, that I think a lot about, is how I can keep advocating for this stuff when we are starting to implement more top down motion, and having to really prove ROI.”
04 / belief
“I think we probably would've changed it later. I think we just saved ourselves some time and without having to change it.”
05 / belief
“I'm in there all the time. I think I'm the most active FigJam user. [inaudible 01:28:01] validate that in the metrics.”
06 / belief
“I saw that they had signed up for Figma, and I was like, "Wait a minute. I think I know this person.”
07 / commitment
“I have a free account myself on my personal side for designing my house, which is a thing I used to before, but you just go and you can try the tool. And I think that's so important for us to allow someone to use it over time for a long time until they have confidence enough to be able to want to spread it within their organizations.”
08 / recommendation
“Totally, and that's when these internal champions, that's what the key is. And that's maybe the takeaway of how important these internal champions are, because you just need someone to land there and then them maybe passing it up.”
09 / evaluation
“" We didn't spend that much money, any money really programmatically on paid or programmatic marketing because all of our leads for sales would come in through a form on our website, which was current users either free or pro wanting to upgrade.”
10 / evaluation
“I think for us it's unique because the individual contributor spends so much time in the tool, and it's so important to them.”
11 / preference
“One of the quotes I always like to say, and I say this now too, when we're doing stuff, because we're launching new products [inaudible 00:23:40] and it comes up a lot, is you can't optimize your way to product market fit.”
12 / evaluation
“I think that that was a very real part of the decision to get out of stealth was that people had been building for such a long time.”
13 / evaluation
“When we launched, people wanted to test it because it was cool and see what it is, but then they bounced.”
14 / evaluation
“You can only build so much with your customers when you're in stealth, because you don't have that many that know about you.”
15 / recommendation
“And I work with Figma. I use the product. And I was using Figma for a long time.”